If Christmas Happened Today

I was just thinking about the Christmas story, and about how it would be different if it happened in today's society.
A little girl who attends Middle School, or is a High School Freshman at the least, is a very devout member of her church and is known as well-behaved and a model student. When she gets pregnant, she says she's never done more than kissed her boyfriend. But she met someone claiming to be an angel who told her she would be giving birth to the Messiah. Does she even know what a messiah is?

Let's say her boyfriend is a bit older. He wants to break up with her because he knows he didn't get her pregnant, thinks she's crazy to tell this wild story about how it happened, and figures she is a very different person than he thought she was. But he has a vivid dream where an angel tells him it's OK. And he marries her.

These kids live in some small town in southern Indiana. A poor little town that's run down and kind of disrespected by most people. So anybody that hears her outrageous claim of virgin conception of the Messiah are beyond skeptical.

So they get married and decide to drive across country to have the baby in his grandparents' town, maybe somewhere in Kansas. They drive an old Ford Tempo that's barely holding together. Somehow instead of having the child in a hospital like everyone else, they pull off the road somewhere when she's in labor and she gives birth in an old barn.

There's some sort of bright light in the sky hovering over them, which brings people from around the midwest, who bring gifts for the baby.

The story spreads across the news media, which mostly makes fun of the whole story. But people everywhere make the trip to find the young family, to the point where the family has to run away to some undisclosed hiding place in South Dakota just to escape the crowds.

If something like this happened today, would anybody believe the little girl?

I think they'd be more likely to have her committed, blame the boyfriend, and give the baby up for adoption.

But maybe not, if it really was the Son of God.

Merry Christmas everybody.