Yahoo! News - Bronze Stallion in Shorts to Spare Virgin Blushes

(This post began life as a comment at Larry's place, whence I got this story.)

An Italian town is putting iron underwear on a statue of a horse, because a religious procession bearing a statue of the Virgin Mary passes by it.

A) According to a literal reading of the New Testament, and to most scholars, Jesus had several siblings, who presumably were conceived in the normal matter. So Mary presumably knew about sex.

B) Jesus was also born in a stable. Considering that, there presumably were actual, live horses in the room at the time, and presumably, they weren't wearing underwear. (That's four presumablies!)

Of course, I was born in a city that had an enormous iron statue of a Roman God wearing nothing but an apron overlooking it. Which was still better than being on the side he wasn't overlooking.