Calendar-maker Earns His Fifteen Minutes

Las Vegas man pays the ultimate ecclesiastical price for stepping "outside the image"

Well, under the circumstances of the situation, we suppose it was inevitable that this would happen:

Excommunicated: LDS Church boots creator of 'Men on a Mission' calendar

And we know the "The Lord moves in mysterious ways"... but nevertheless can't help but wonder if the penalty of being eternally banned from heaven might not be a mite harsh for publishing and schlepping a few cheesy beefcake calendars. This seems particularly incongruous, we think, when scoundrels like this still apparently enjoy full church fellowship.

Who knows? Its all a mystery, as we said.

On the bright side, we learn from the story that Mr. Hardy has already managed to bank a cool $150 thousand consolation prize... and gotten his fifteen minutes of fame. A fair trade off? We don't know.

So what say our gentle readers about all this?