{"id":26132,"date":"2017-11-13T22:17:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T22:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26132"},"modified":"2017-11-13T22:17:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T22:17:58","slug":"oh-yeah-and-mary-was-a-virgin-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26132","title":{"rendered":"Oh, yeah, and Mary was a virgin, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Amarillo Globe-News published a brief editorial today that takes to task an Alabama Republican politician who sought to defend embattled fellow Republican Roy Moore against accusations that he made improper sexual advances on a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the G-N published:<\/p>\n<p><em>The recent statement by Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler in reference to the scandal surrounding GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore is wrong on many counts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, we will stick to one \u2014 it is historically wrong, at least according to the Bible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Zeigler invoked the relationship between Mary and Joseph as some sort of reason not to criticize Moore, who has been accused of sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl decades ago when Moore was in his 30s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the Bible, specific ages are not provided for Mary and Joseph, although it can be assumed Mary was a teenager at the time she gave birth to Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to Jewish customs at that time, men were also typically young when they were \u201cbetrothed.\u201d Therefore, it is quite likely Joseph was not much older than Mary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The editorial, I need to mention, omits a critical element about Mary and Joseph. It is that Scripture tells us that <em>Mary was a virgin.\u00a0<\/em>She and Joseph didn&#8217;t produce the child she was carrying, according to the New Testament.<\/p>\n<p>And that, in my mind, makes the Alabama auditor&#8217;s &#8220;defense&#8221; of Roy Moore even more ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amarillo Globe-News published a brief editorial today that takes to task an Alabama Republican politician who sought to defend embattled fellow Republican Roy Moore against accusations that he made improper sexual advances on a 14-year-old girl. Here&#8217;s what the G-N published: The recent statement by Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler in reference to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, yeah, and Mary was a virgin, too<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3272,7414],"class_list":["post-26132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-new-testament","tag-virgin-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26134,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26132\/revisions\/26134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}