The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t have that rule when Jesus was born.

Boosler’s joke targets perceived inconsistency between contemporary Catholic/Vatican positions on reproductive technologies (such as surrogacy) and Christianity’s foundational narrative of the Virgin Birth. By calling Mary, provocatively, a “surrogate mother,” she uses deliberate category-mixing to expose how modern moral rules can appear selective or historically contingent. The punch line hinges on irony: if today’s prohibition had existed “then,” the central event of Christian salvation history would be imperiled. The humor functions as social critique, inviting audiences to question how religious institutions apply ethical principles to new biomedical realities and whether doctrinal authority adapts coherently to changing circumstances.