THE MIRACLE OF THE MYSTERY OF CHRISTMAS never ends. Around two thousand years ago there was the greatest miracle in the annals of Judaeo-Christian faith when Mary, albeit a virgin, was pronounced pregnant with baby Jesus. The scriptures do not give us a great deal of information about how this pregnancy was taken by friends of the family, as, after all, in the year dot in the Middle East adultery was an offence punishable by stoning. As indeed it is today.
YET TO SHOW HOW PROGRESS has been achieved over the two millennia since we welcomed the Christ child into our midst, we now have the miracle of popular comedian Elton John and his Canadian wife David Furnish becoming parents of a child born, no less, on Christmas Day itself. Once again there is not a great deal of news about what the locals are thinking in the John’s home state of Georgia, USA, but I imagine a bit of a desire for stoning those engaging in untoward sexual behaviour in the good ‘ole deep south Bible Belt is in the air.
THUS ONE IMAGINES THAT young Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, will be kept in the closet for some time after he comes out of his swaddling gold and silver lamé clothes. The magazine US Weekly does not report on how the mother is doing, but the father, “overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment” says that it was David who convinced him into becoming a father. We share in their joy and in this new sign of liberalism and freedom and the miraculous in the modern age.
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