"HOLY MOTHER of GOD........oh...that's right...it's me..."
A billboard featuring an image of Virgin Mary's reaction to a positive home pregnancy test is raising eyebrows in New Zealand, with some critics deeming the sign inappropriate. The billboard was erected in Auckland, New Zealand on Tuesday by St. Matthew-in-the-City, a progressive Anglican church well-known for its provocative advertisements.
Reactions to the sign gathered by local television station 3 News included comments from locals that the sign was "really weird" and that it was "inappropriate to have outside a church."
But Church Vicar Glynn Cardy and priest Clay Nelson defended the advertisement, saying it depicts a very real reaction.
"Regardless of any premonition, that discovery would have been shocking. Mary was unmarried, young, and poor. This pregnancy would shape her future," the two men said in a joint statement.
Afterward Mary was heard saying "Poor Joseph, God was a hard act to follow, how do I tell him that ?"
New Zealanders aren't Aussies, they're Kiwis.