TAYLORSVILLE UTAH —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.
Van Lidell and Ed Beazer, operators of Just Add Coffee, originally sold a shirt depicting the angel Moroni with java flowing into his trumpet. But The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints objected and asked them to stop using the image, according to a report by the Associated Press. —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.
The Mormons revere the angel, who they believe appeared to church founder Joseph Smith. Church members also are discouraged from drinking coffee. —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.
Lidell and Beazer said the new T-shirt shows a hand—with a dark suit sleeve and white shirt cuff—pouring coffee from a pot into a horn. The slogan reads: “The Lord giveth, and a church taketh away.” —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.
“We try to be a little more edgy, a little more funny,” Beazer said. —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.
A church spokesman hadn’t seen the new T-shirt and had no comment. —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.
More than 150 shirts have been sold since the redesign’s debut last month. —The owners of a coffee shop here have brewed up a new design for T-shirts advertising their logo after the old one got them into hot water with officials from the Mormon church.