Theres a whole lot of shaking going on. Starting with a wagging of a finger in disapproval.TV stations are being inundated with calls and e-mails protesting the Patty Melt and Flat Buns commercials of Hardees and Carls Jr. restaurants. The 30-minute spots features a curvy, slim, blonde school teacher walking provocatively around her classroom in a gray suit, talking about the earth not being flat, while male students are admiring her physique. Then suddenly, she pulls a pencil out of her rolled-up hair, and it falls to her shoulders. She then goes into a provocative dance on top of the desk. Two of the students go into bad rap music, I like them really hot. I like them really flat I like flat buns. At one point, the teacher is on her back on top of the desk, elevating her hips in rhythm to the music. She slides her hands across her fanny, as well. The boys are immediately at a chalkboard with a womans body outlined, then one erases the rounded portion of her buttocks to make them flat. The commercial winds up the burger dropping to a surface and the words: The Patty Melt on flat buns — only at Carls Jr. A Queen Creek reader shared an e-mail sent, in protest, to TV stations, I am highly offended by the sexual content in the latest Hardees/Carl’s Jr. television commercials In my opinion, they violate local community standards. Because you are licensed to serve the public interest in our community, I request that you refuse to air these ads. If you are already airing them, I ask you to stop.Don Wildmons American Family Association, based in Mississippi, is leading the charge against the CKE Restaurants, based in Carpentaria, Calif. Hardees and Carl’s Jr. have a solid history of completely ignoring consumer complaints, the AFA web site states, noting that the company has previously used Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and actress Paris Hilton to sell burgers.The president of the Tennessee Education Association told the company of his disappointment. At this very moment, there are female teachers in high school classrooms with 30-plus students who are working hard to teach our children so that they can compete in todays world, said Earl Wiman. It is unbelievably demeaning to every one of them to promote a television advertisement showing a young teacher on top of her desk while boys in the class rap about her body in order to sell hamburgers. He said it certainly doesnt reinforce good classroom behavior, nor an orderly environment for leaning.If you dare, you can view the commercial on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HooS1rtXDGk&mode=related&search=That outrage comes at the same time that a dozen returned missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are showing off the top half of their bodies for an edgy beefcake 2008 Men on a Mission calendar It is being dubbed Mormons Exposed. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/97145One of them, Matthew Webster, 22, is a graduate of Mountain View High School in Mesa and served his mission in Japan. Photos of their pecs and muscles are tame, but it is only controversial and provocative because the young men are otherwise wholesome, clean-cut they-wouldnt-do-that-would-they? Mormon chaps. The Las Vegas company, which is selling the calendars online for $14.95, is paying the guys $500, with other cash for doing interviews or appearances. The calendar project and surrounding buzz serves as a platform to encourage many different groups of people to look beyond the stereotypes of race, religion or political affiliation to achieve a greater understanding of one another, the sellers web site (mormonsexposed.com) says. It has a disclaimer that the venture is neither affiliated with the Mormon Church nor endorsed by it. Church officials predictably have dismissed the calendar project as a non-story. Many are, no doubt, shaking their heads at the latest uncomfortable thing to come their way.A whole host of films and spoofs have been done over the years at the expense of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, TV series like HBOs Big Love and films like Mobsters and Mormons Orgazmo, and The Other Side of Heaven. Mormon filmmakers have made a raft of films that are successful, in great part, because they can exploit the distinct folkways of church members. No doubt part of it stems from a notion that the church seems to have set itself up as stainless and modest to a fault, thus making it an easier target.Meanwhile, the calendar peddlers are striving to gain some respectability by giving some of the profits to charities like Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross. You can predict the next gimmick will be a calendar of returned women church missionaries in bikinis. The women probably have already been recruited.

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