Just a pretty simple question here. Mary was the mother of Jesus, but when she gave birth to him she was a virgin. She was also the wife of Joseph. But wait a minute... how can she have been his wife if she was a virgin? The Christian Church does not recognise marriage until the husband and wife have sex, not having sex is one of the only grounds on which it will grant divorce (the term they use is ratum et non consummatum). Jesus then was born out of wedlock, and technically a bastard, no?
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