Ding-dong! And that's in the metaphorical and literal sense, I suppose. A whole calendar of Mormon missionaries shirtless? Yes — though the hotness of the bell-ringing men depicted has landed its creator in some hot water with his alma mater, Brigham Young University.
Chad Hardy graduated from BYU and created the calendar called "Men on a Mission" aimed at shaking up the boring or cookie-cutter stereotype of the LDS lads. After selling more than 11,000 copies featuring the missionaries in shirtless beefcake poses, last month Hardy received a letter saying that there had been a nonacademic hold placed on his degree. He'd been excommunicated from the church, and that "If in the future you are reinstated as a member of the church in good standing, you are invited to contact my office regarding your possible eligibility for the awarding of a degree." He plans to fight the decision "tooth and nail."
Reasons for the excommunication include the calendar as well as failure to pay tithing and other religious obligations. The 2009 version is on sale now. The controversy is all well and good, but want to see the missionaries sans shirts? Then without further ado, read more.
Polo Ralph Lauren
Oscar De La Renta
Untold
holy moly!! and I do mean holy!
yummmmyyyyyy!!!
i could make a missionary joke right now, but I wont!
1Is it wrong that I like the shirtless pictures wayyyyy better? ahaahahha It's like extreme sexy makeover! Come on the guy should have known better religion isn't free of arbitrary rules, he should have known there was going to be back lash from the Mormon church. Them withholding his degree is wrong though I mean if they feel they want to kick him out of the church that's one thing but to deny him his degree ( yes I know it's technically associated with the church) is not right and they should know that being "vengeful" isn't the way.
2Ohh my God...
The guy on the cover...
....umm...sinful is the right word, I can see why the excommunicated him~
3i would just like to say that i applaud citizen for this in depth reporting and i would like to see more stories like this!
4Wowza!
haus - I think we're all thinking of that joke!
5lol, my comment doesn't even touch the story! Were there even words in this post, all I saw was that picture.
6"Reasons for the excommunication include the calendar as well as failure to pay tithing and other religious obligations."
Wait if he would have gave the Church a cut of his "sin" they probably wouldn't have kicked him to the curb, there is something very wrong with this!
7Why can't we see the Women of the LDS like this?
I have a hard time with the decision of BYU. If he earned that degree, it should be his. I agree with the excommunication part though. What was he thinking? (don't answer that)
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9And suddenly I understand the whole school-girl fetish.
10I could have guessed his name was "chad" he looks like a chad.
UnDave, you wouldnt be able to see anything, with all thier body hair.
11"Is it wrong that I like the shirtless pictures wayyyyy better?"
No. Those guys should always walk around shirtless.
12Viewing these men as sexy symbols is wrong. We should all be ashamed. There should really be an option to make the images just a little larger.
13Are they really surprised about BYU's reaction?
14This gave me flashbacks to the super hot Mormon missionaries the lived next door to me in college. My roommate and I were OBSESSED with them. They hung out with these 2 girls who were always over, sitting on lawn chairs outside the front door... I don't think we had a shot with them though because they'd come home and see us smoking our ultra lights on the front steps of the building, but man I would have liked to corrupt them.
15I agree bellaressa, the icons should be clickable
who'd have guessed under those
suits and bad haircuts were HOT guys! we really should have more posts like this...
16I agree bella. There definitely should be an option to make the images larger. It would make it easier to see the sin.
17Haha, OK, I may be the only woman who doesn't really get the whole 'beefcake' thing.
But, hey, kudos to these guys for all of that...um...Mormon-ing that gave them such great abs. 
..."man I would have liked to corrupt them."
...and THIS mentality is why I can always, always bank on my Catholic schoolgirl past.
Hey, it was worth something, right?
18WOW!!
19haus you crack me up.
I do not think they should revoke his degree. That is insane. The church can do what it wants though I guess.
In any case, all this publicity might sell more calendars.
20My my. All that riding around on bikes does a body good!
Revoking the degree is a little crazy, but I can see how the university/church would not be thrilled with this.
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23em - You were a Catholic Schoolgirl?
24Hello, strangers. Why don't you come here and spread the word?!
25something about shirtless male virgins creeps me out...
26LMOA - Nice topless pics.
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28Whoa Dave...
I think the last guy is the hottest. The rest of just ok. Why are the pics so small?
29Yes, I don't think any of us can form an educated opinion on this post without having larger pecs... I mean PICS!!!!!
30I also sent this story to my friend, who had this to say:
"Well hello, new desktop wallpaper!"
31None of the guys that show up at my door look like that! What the heck!
32However! I do find it interesting that every guy is white.
I know that LDS wasn't very friendly to African Americans for a long time, but thats all fixed now and I thought I read somewhere that the black population in the church was growing??
33Ok, the first guy...is he posing for Playgirl or something?
34"something about shirtless male virgins creeps me out..."
What about the flip side? Shirtless female virgins...would that creep a guy out? I thin it'd be the opposite, for the most part.
35"What about the flip side? Shirtless female virgins...would that creep a guy out? I thin it'd be the opposite, for the most part."
Ah, well that's what happens when society values female virginity over male virginity.
...but I don't want this post to get all serious. I like reading the innuendo y'all are coming up with.
36Well! Well! What do we have here? Honey all I have to say is they can ring my door bell any day of the week to discuss anything missionary.
37Mmm...none of them are my type
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OH MY!
39Well Jude...you don't need 'em anyway. To tell ya the truth, none of them are my type either but the last guy is kinda cute to me.
40BYU like many uber religious schools makes you sign code of conduct type rules when you start. Everything is laid out as well as the punishment. I think it is stupid, but their right as a private institution. And the Mormon church is very different than others. I grew up with two of my best friends being Mormon and would visit their church every now and then. It was very different. One of them was disowned by her family when she married outside the church. She did it at 18 and I swear it was just to leave the house. The marriage lasted a little over a year. It really is sad.
41"I think it is stupid, but their right as a private institution."
I agree.
That is really sad, GS. Did she ever reconcile with her family?
42You can have him, indie! I don't like it when guys are so buff that you can count their abs, and see muscles you didn't even know existed.
43That was ten years ago and now they have that awkward, strained kind of relationship, you know? Holiday visits is about it. She remarried last year to a great guy and they are preggers right now too. And that baby is going to be a doozy. She is 6'4" and he is 6'8". And it's a girl!
44Jude, agreed. I like my men muscular like the musclemen of the 40's and 50's. Big and strong, but not angular.
45It's good that they're at least speaking, though
I also really dislike the "waxed chest" look. That and the muscles even bothered me about Christian Bale in American Psycho. I don't like guys who look like they spend more time grooming themselves and thinking about their bodies than girls!
46I'm with you guys. Ultra defined muscles don't turn me on. It's just nice to look at but I don't feel like running my hands all over their abs or anything.
What I love on a man is nice, broad shoulders. Gets me everytime. Oh yeah, and a man that smells good.
Anyway, I'm not trying to derail yet another thread...
47I love broad shoulders. That was one of the first thing I noticed about my husband.
48Waxed chest look...yeah, not manly. I like a little chest hair.
49Shoulders and a good smell are important!
Ketchup smells good, right, indie?
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