✊ Sin of Empathy Tee

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This design had two pathways of inspiration. It's conception happened after Bishop Mariann Budde implored President Trump, during a sermon, to have mercy on immigrants and trans children. This simple plea resulted in the President taking to Truth Social with a vicious commentary on Bishop Budde taking a "nasty tone". Further reaction from the MAGA party included a post on X by Utah-based Deacon Ben Garrett, who stated: "Do not commit the sin of Empathy."

The 𝒔𝒊𝒏 of 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒚.

The second pathway of inspiration was my daughter Zoe, who passed away in 2021. She was one of the most empathetic and compassionate people I have ever known. The fox in this design is an homage to her. She loved foxes and had created her own fox character , Kira Fox. The coyote represents every person she stopped to encourage, to hug, to cheer up. Every person she defended and stood up for. Every kindness she openly put out into the world because of the tremendous amount of empathy she had for every human, every living thing.

For those who may be facing censorship of political ideals at work or in your daily life, I have created a second, more subtle version of this design as well. It states simply "Embrace Empathy". Hopefully that is mild enough that it will allow those who are unable to be as politically open to still share the core message.

So, go forth and commit the sin of empathy. Sin widely and with your whole heart, in this regard.

Here are the words from Bishop Budde which prompted such anger and vitriol; you can find screenshots of the responses in the image gallery for this design:

"𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎, 𝑀𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐴𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐺𝑜𝑑. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑, 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑦, 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠.

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠; 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑡-𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠; 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠 – 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑥𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑎, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠.

𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦, 𝑀𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑.

𝑀𝑎𝑦 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑."

-𝐵𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑛 𝐵𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒

• 100% cotton
• Sport Grey is 90% cotton, 10% polyester
• Ash Grey is 99% cotton, 1% polyester
• Heather colors are 50% cotton, 50% polyester
• Fabric weight: 5.0–5.3 oz/yd² (170-180 g/m²)
• Open-end yarn
• Tubular fabric
• Taped neck and shoulders
• Double seam at sleeves and bottom hem

Reducing environmental impact:

• We test the quality of our products through many wash/dry cycles and weekly wearing for at least six months. We don't want you to experience a design that fades or flakes after just a few washings- we want to provide you with a tee that will last for years and not quickly end up in a landfill. We spot test samples from our printer several times per year, to ensure quality is remaining consistent, and to ensure we are not contributing to "disposable fashion".

• If your design does begin to fade or fake, we want to know! It's extremely important to us to be alerted right away if our printer's quality begins to slip. Please reach out to us! We do not want our clothes products cluttering landfills, so if you mail us a faulty/faded MMR tee, we will provide it to the mink as nesting material & send you a replacement free of charge.

• This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce the negative environmental impact of overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

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