The Calendar!

Did you guys hear about this? Last week a gay guy I work with comes to me and says, "So. That Mormon guy who made the calendar got kicked out of your church, huh?" I didn't know what he was talking about. Then he said this Mormon guy took a bunch of pictures of good looking missionaries with their shirts off and made a calendar, and now he's excommunicated. Then I remembered I had posed for that calendar a few years ago, but didn't think anything ever came of it.

Sure enough, the next day on MSN I see this headline: "Mormon Excommunicated for Missionary Calendar." I clicked on it and it brought up a list of search results profiling the story. Sure enough, on the first page of results were links to SanFranciscoGate.com and QueensSpeech.com. Hmmm. Interesting. What does that tell you about the calendar's customer base? Let's just say, I don't think Miamaids were driving the sales.

After reading about the calendar and the guy who made it, I went back to the guy I work with and talked to him about it. He's always interested in Mormonism so he asked why someone would be excommunicated for just making a calendar. I explained that from what I read, I could tell the guy was not very repentant and that it seemed like that's what he wanted to happen. Then he said that the calendar was very popular in the gay community because Mormon Missionaries are innocent and forbidden.

That's just great!

At first I just thought the guy who created this calendar was just a bonehead. Probably less active and looking for some cash. I could almost give him credit for coming up with a pretty marketable idea. But no matter what his feelings about the church are, there has to be a sacriligious line you just don't cross. These missionaries are on a sacred assignment and he knows that. Like, even though I'm not Jewish, I wouldn't wipe with a Yamaka cause I know it's a sacred symbol of their religion. This guy should have censored himself.

Perhaps he thought he was creating a mormon Abercrombie catalogue for little girls to giggle at. But instead he got his product on the shelves next to the Barbara Streisand CD for all the gay community to drool and fantasize over. Nice work Brother. Maybe he didn't anticipate his customer base. Oh wait....it just dawned on me. He is part of that customer base. It's so clear now.

Well, my gay friend went on to tell me that supposedly his next calendar is going to be called Mormon Muffins or something. A bunch of hot Mormon housewives and their favorite recipies.

Now that's brilliant.