From New Zealand-The new vicar of an outspoken Auckland church says controversial billboards will continue with her appointment.
The Reverend Helen Jacobi will be inducted as the new vicar of St Matthew-in-the-City tonight in a service led by the Anglican bishops of Auckland.
St Matthew-in-the-City is perhaps best known for its controversial billboards.
It erected a billboard in support of a bill to legalise same-sex marriages. The billboard, outside the church, showed two model brides kissing atop a wedding cake, with the text: "We don't care who's on top."
Before that it put up a billboard at Christmas depicting Mary with a positive pregnancy test, and in 2009 a billboard before Christmas depicted Mary and Joseph in bed with the text: "Poor Joseph, God was a hard act to follow."
In April last year the church responded to Hell Pizza's "For a limited time. A bit like Jesus" Easter bun billboard with one saying: "Hell no, we're not giving up pizza for Lent."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9998464/Church-to-stick-with-controversial-billboards
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