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TAYLORSVILLE - A coffee shop will stop advertising an image of a Mormon angel with java flowing into his trumpet, but the owners aren't ready to stop selling T-shirts.
''They've been the best-selling T-shirts we've ever done,'' Just Add Coffee co-owner Ed Beazer said.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent a letter to Beazer, informing him that Moroni's image is a registered trademark.
''If they provide proof, we're going to comply,'' Beazer said. ''We don't want to break any laws or anything.''
T-shirts sold at the shop show Moroni, a male figure in a robe blowing a trumpet. The trumpet is turned up at an angle as coffee is poured in.
Not only is Moroni a revered figure - Mormons believe he appeared to church founder Joseph Smith - but LDS members are discouraged from drinking coffee.
Just Add Coffee put the image on greeting cards about a year ago and started selling the shirts before Christmas. Moroni also appeared in ads that caught the church's attention.
Church spokesman Scott Trotter said the image is a trademark.
''It was a spoof,'' Beazer said. ''It was meant to be fun.''