Biblical bedroom billboard rouses ire (Reuters)

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A man walks past a billboard outside St. Matthew's church before it is covered in paint smeared by a protestor in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. The billboard, featuring Joseph and Mary, was the idea of a New Zealand Anglican priest that has stirred controversy with a Christmas billboard that challenges Christian stereotypes about the conception of Jesus. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Sarah Ivey)Reuters - A billboard sponsored by a local Anglican church that shows Joseph and Mary in bed has set tongues wagging in New Zealand, with the Catholic Church condemning it as others found it funny.