Great! That's just great. I'd definitely use that as an argument. The last person consulted as to the social standing to which he would be relegated would have been the “bastard.” You know, there are so many jumping off places for that illogical theory, I don't know where to start. Fortunately, St. Joseph was closer to God than the Church has been in some instances.
You have to remember that to the rest of the unsaved world, our dear divinely begotten Christ looked like he was on the short side of the social scale as well.
Once upon a time, bastardy was a stigma that was worse than being a slave, although the two were related. To be without a father/mother is to be in social limbo. They only things that might save one was if the father was of high standing, so that he could get some support. That was he could pass as a Nephew of a priest, for instance. Gays are right about one thing, until recently to be a homosexual was to be an outcast like that. In today’s world, of course, things are topsy turvey. To be either he child of a single woman or gay, is be virtuous. I suspect that Mr. Obama has worked so hard to conceal his birth records, not because they would show he was not born in Hawaii but that his father was not married to his mother. For a white woman to be married to a black man in 1961 was pretty bad, but to be just his girl friend were even worse.