If you’re a born again Christian and you want to sport a T-shirt telling the world how God saved a sinner like yourself, you might wear a shirt that says something like “Saved” or “Ex-sinner.” Well, one Christian organization, (the Passion for Christ Movement, otherwise known by its hip street name the P4CM) took the “ex-Sinner” concept and decided to get more specific.

How specific? Well they have shirts that read “Ex-hypocrite,” which as we all know is a good example of sin. Another says “Ex-atheist,” I can see the validity of that shirt from their point of view. There’s the “Ex-fornicator”, and you know that will make all you ladies more popular at parties. And, of course, my favorite, “Ex-masturbator.”

Yes this group encourages young Christians to sport shirts that say “Ex-masturbator.” I repeat again, WTF, WTF, WTF? Gosh! Really? Do we really need to see a T-shirt that lets us know you’ve quit spanking it?

At the risk of sounding like an old codger – when I was a teenager, everybody was doing it; we just had the decency to lie about it. I liked it that way. Later on as I got older, I read more. I figured out everyone was doing it too. But you didn’t see me wear a freakin’ shirt about it!

Now, please don’t take this as a send up of any born-again ideology. I don’t want to debate with anybody on whether the things on the T-shirts are sins. That’s not the issue. The issue is whether we need a T-shirt with that much freakin’ information. So please save the comments.

You have every right to practice and preach whatever you want on your T-shirts. I just have the right to make fun of them. And if you admit to me that you’ve stroked it – even if Jesus helped you stop – I’m going to tease you. I can’t help it; it’s the 13-year-old kid in me.

And for the record: if you are a dude between the ages of 13 and 18, and you have a shirt that says “Ex-masturbator” on it, you’re not advertising you’re a reformed sinner you’re just showing everyone you are currently full of crap.