Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality.
The disciples asked Jesus, 'Did this man or his parents sin that he was born blind?' Jesus answered that the blindness was not the result of the man or his parents' sin.
But maybe their take on Christmas is a lot like their abortion politics: protect the pre-born Jesus who can't speak for himself, but once he's grown, he's fair game for elimination.
In a 2005 article in Archaeology magazine, archaeologist Aviram Oshri points to an absence of evidence of the settlement of Bethlehem near Jerusalem at the time when Jesus was born, and postulates that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Galilee.
He has to be referring here, metaphorically, to the "riches" of Jesus' pre-existence with God, since all our sources have Jesus born of a poor peasant family.
Earl Monroe, in full Vernon Earl Monroe, bynames the Pearl and Black Jesus (born November 21 , 1944 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S).
Among the topics covered in the survey were: Where was Jesus born?
In this heavy-handed treatment, having Jesus born in a manger is not enough; the arrival also has to occur during what looks like a typhoon.
But Christopher Wren's forte was not Jesus born in a stable, the sort of church that exists for the poor and for the marginalised".
It's a sound the young singer Zola Jesus (born Nika Roza Danilova), who is operatically trained, has been working toward on a series of increasingly dark, increasingly fractured and increasingly gorgeous releases in the last two years.
"They asked him 'Where was Jesus born?' And he says 'Pittsburgh.' So they say 'Nope, Bethlehem.' And then Roy says, 'I knew it was some place in Pennsylvania.' " The rows behind us exploded in laughter.
