Article: `First surrogate mother' cartoon highly offensive

The Higgins cartoon on "the first surrogate mother" offended some of us who regard the conception of Jesus of Nazareth as a unique event. Mary, the Mother of Jesus, represents humanity in a receptive disposition to receive the limitless love of God and give it flesh. However, your cartoon metaphor makes the Christian Feast of Christmas to surrogate motherhood what an insensitive demographer would make the Holocaust in Nazi Germany to eugenic population control.

What are you trying to convey?

If you are trying to mock the Catholic Church in its attempt to emphasize the sanctity of marriage, you have succeeded. If you attempted to down play the Christian Mystery of the Conception and ...

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