A gaggle of very angry Christians are furious at an Xmas decoration that features one too many Josephs for their tastes.
There are, in fact, two Christmas ornaments raising their ire — one featuring two Virgin Marys chillaxing in a manger with little baby Jesus, and another featuring the aforementioned pair of freewheeling Josephs.
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Christian Concern, a querulous group of religious wingnuts, thinks this is nothing but a “blasphemous attempt to rewrite the Christmas story.” A gay Christmas decoration showing a nativity scene with two Josephs.
“These decorations are a desperate and ridiculous attempt to pretend that homosexual relationships are pure and holy,” says chief executive Andrea Williams.
They blasphemously portray the Lord Jesus parented by a homosexual couple. What depths will the LGBT lobby group stoop in order to try and normalize their behavior?”
God’s design is for children to grow up with a male and a female parent. The Lord Jesus was parented in this way, and this is what is best for children.
The LGBT lobby is not interested in the welfare of children but only in pursuing its own selfish agenda. Trying to rewrite the Christmas story is their latest self-deception.”
Mark Thaler, the California-based artist who created the ornaments for his Zazzle company Pride and More — thinks Christian Concern needs to chill.
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“‘It’s just an image,” he says. “They need to focus on themselves and not worry about what everyone else is doing.”
As The Daily Mail reports, he’s thinking of removing them “out of respect for his fellow humans,” and we hope he doesn’t.
This is only the latest entry in the “War on Christmas” saga that’s found Christian militants getting furious at inanimate objects like Starbucks coffee cups, and we’re eagerly anticipating their projected takedown of candy canes and jingle bells.
Suncoaster
Perhaps the males are God and Joseph? ( Not politically correct but fundamentalist )
sfbeast
The dog is a nice touch.
Captain Obvious
Surprised they aren’t in an uproar that the Joseph’s are black. Suppose that’s progress. (especially since the Bible took place in Africa but that’s an unimportant detail apparently)
NateOcean
Three Wise Men? Someone explain that.
A Polyamorous arrangement I assume.
Juanjo
@Captain Obvious: Israel is NOT in Africa geographically politically nor ethnically. I know that all brown people look alike to some people, that is OBVIOUS. Since much of the Bible never actually took place including the birth of Jesus, it doesn’t matter where what took place.
Billysees
“‘It’s just an image,” the artist who created the ornaments says. “They (the protesters) need to focus on themselves and not worry about what everyone else is doing.”
Good advice of course.
Jack Meoff
@Captain Obvious: OMG in what reality did the bible take place in Africa.
Kangol
@Juanjo: Actually there is historical and empirical proof that Jesus Christ existed. The mystical and spiritual bits can’t be quantified, but there was a historical figure who correlates with Jesus of Nazareth.
Dymension
I am definitely gay, but I also acknowledge the story features Joseph and Mary. I wouldn’t buy those ornaments…
dwes09
@Captain Obvious: Other than the Egyptian captivity, no part of either the Tanakh or the Gospels takes place in Africa!
Captain Obvious
@Juanjo: Oh sorry you’re right the bible took place in Europe. Happy?
Captain Obvious
@Jack Meoff: Which continent did it take place in then?
dwes09
@Captain Obvious: ” Which continent did it take place in then?”
Modern geographers refer to the region in which most of the biblical events took place as WESTERN ASIA. They used to refer to it as the middle east, also considered as part of Asia. That regions is also referred to as the Palantine and the Levant. It has never been considered as part of Europe, if only because it is culturally and linguistically distinct.
OBVIOUSLY the continents of Europe and Asia are not as easily separated as, say, north and south Amnerica and some refer to Eurasia as one land mass. But, again, the biblical regions have never been seen as parts of Europe or Africa (except for Egypt).
Xzamilloh
@Kangol: No there isn’t. That is complete bullshit. There is not ONE contemporary account of Jesus’s life and there is no empirical evidence he ever existed, and the closest account is Josephus, and that was the Antiquities of the Jews, written over 50 years AFTER Jesus’s supposed crucifixion. Every mention of Jesus was from historians not even alive during his lifetime (Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger). It is likely that a historical Jesus existed (I believe that) but the Gospels surrounding his life? No evidence that any of it is real, and evidence that a lot of it heavily borrowed from OTHER mythical gods, Mithras and Horus for one. You would think that there would be one contemporary account from someone who existed during Jesus’s lifetime, because the ones that did exist during that time had no mention of him
jdboston617
At this point, I skip the article and read the comments. It is so much more entertaining. Y’all are cray.
Amalgamate
@Kangol: -afraid youre wrong. There is actually only two references of a Jesus outside the bible and neither are compelling. He is most likely an amalgam of various kookie hippie religious guys at the time.
Amalgamate
@Dymension: -they weren’t made for you. They are adorable!