# Mary's Pregnancy Test Comes Back Positive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 15, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295 "2011-12-15T13:46:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295/21 "2011-12-16T22:08:43Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> They were engaged, not yet married, when the conception occurred. That’s why Joseph planned to “put her away quietly” before he too was visited by the angel.

Put her away? Sounds like Joseph was a mob don. Mary will be sleeping with the loaves and fishes. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295/22 "2011-12-16T22:23:13Z")

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It just occurred to me - shouldn’t they have put this billboard up nine months ago? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Pantani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pantani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantani)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295/23 "2011-12-17T22:03:59Z")

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This is also the church which had the “Poor Joseph, God was a hard act to follow” billboard last year.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295/24 "2011-12-18T02:52:48Z")

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> [@Pantani](#):
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> This is also the church which had the “Poor Joseph, God was a hard act to follow” billboard last year.

Noted in the OP

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**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295/25 "2011-12-18T23:57:19Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I guarantee there will be a reaction.

Yep. Attack of the wingnuts: [Catholics protest ‘Satanic’ billboard](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10773887)

Just to note: the “Catholics” of the headline are the _Catholic Action Group_, which the spokeswoman for the NZ Catholic Church says have “absolutely nothing” to do with the mainstream Catholic Church.

I particularly like how the wingnut’s leader claims that Anglicans are “basically heretics”. 🙂

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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marys-pregnancy-test-comes-back-positive/606295/26 "2011-12-19T09:47:24Z")

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“I’m pregnant?!? Jesus Christ, Joseph is going to _kill_ me!”

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