Moroni to Remain in Chains!
Apparently Mormon leaders did not take my pleas to heart. Apparently, I am not a voice of the people to be reckoned with. Alas!
It was announced Thursday that Just Add Coffee will be dropping their T-Shirt design with the angel Moroni on it. Apparently, if the Mormon church says that an angel may not partake of a cup of Joe, the angel must listen. Sorry, Moroni. I hope there is a nice Starbucks in heaven for you. Lord knows they’re everywhere else.
And Thursday’s story:
Coffee shop owners drop Mormon angel from T-shirt designTAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — In keeping with a local economy that features “Polygamy Porter” beer, a suburban Salt Lake City coffee shop thought it was being funny with a recent T-shirt design: The angel Moroni blowing a trumpet, tipped ever so slightly as coffee pours into it.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not see the humor. Not only is Moroni revered — Mormons believe he appeared to church founder Joseph Smith — but church members are discouraged from drinking coffee.
Van Lidell and Ed Beazer, owners of Just Add Coffee, say they use humor to set their 4 1/2-year-old business apart from the competition. A Starbucks opened next door last year.
“We didn’t do it to be mean,” Beazer said. “We didn’t do it because we’re anti-Mormon. We did it because we thought it was funny.”
Nevertheless, after Mormon church officials asked the coffee shop to stop using Moroni’s image, the owners agreed.
Just Add Coffee’s new design is still irreverent. It shows a hand (with dark suit sleeve and white shirt cuff) pouring coffee from a pot into a horn and says: “The Lord giveth, and a church taketh away.”
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