Controversy erupts over a queer Nativity scene every year at Christmastime. In 2017 the debate focuses on a semi-naked man in a Vatican Nativity and two pink-robed Josephs set up as lawn ornaments with the baby Jesus in a Los Angeles yard.

Critics attacked the gay implications of a new Nativity scene at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican this month.  They blasted it as “sacrilegious,” “fiendish” and “a lobbying tool for the homosexual rights movement.” The innovative Nativity shows a semi-naked man to illustrate the charitable act of clothing the naked. It was donated by the Abbey of Montevergine, which has special significance to the LGBTQ community. According to legend, the Madonna of Montevergine miraculously freed a homosexual couple after they were tied to a tree and left to die the winter of 1256. Pros and cons are presented in the new reports reports such as:

Pro: Is this the gayest nativity scene ever created by the Vatican? (gaystarnews.com)

Anti: “Vatican’s ‘sexually suggestive’ nativity has troubling ties to Italy’s LGBT activists.” (lifesitenews.com)