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The city council in Catania, Sicily, have placed cast-iron diaper<\/a> on a large, bronze municipal statue of a stallion, so as not to offend anyone during an annual religious ceremony involving an effigy of the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n

A number of locals are incensed.<\/p>\n

“It is almost inconceivable that in the third millennium, someone should cover a horse’s private parts for the Madonna,” said local animal welfare campaigner Alfio Lisi. “Didn’t God create all living creatures, including man? So why the scandal?” he told Ansa news agency.<\/p>\n

Yeah, and it’s like Mary, raised in 1st C. BC Palestine, who gave birth in a stable <\/i>fergoshsakes, never saw male animal genitalia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city council in Catania, Sicily, have placed cast-iron diaper on a large, bronze municipal statue of a stallion, so as not to offend anyone during an annual religious ceremony…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131266,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/well-um-thats-certainly-an-impressive-huge-god-of-war-statue.html","url_meta":{"origin":2270,"position":0},"title":"Well … um … that's certainly an impressive huge God of War statue","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Aug-16 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I'm reading anything into China unveiling a 190-foot tall, 1300 metric ton bronze-clad statue of a God of War, mind you. 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