Mary Gets a Positive Pregnancy Test in Church's Christmas Billboard

St. Matthews in the City strikes again

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Get a load of this billboard from St. Matthews in the City, a progressive Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand. I mean, Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Well, only Mary is shown, actually, and she's gazing at a positive pregnancy test—without copy of any kind. St. Matthews, which always does provocative billboards at this time of year, plans to leave this one up through Christmas Day. Vicar Glynn Cardy says the Christmas story "is about a real pregnancy, a real mother and a real child … Mary was young, unmarried and poor.

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