Is nothing sacred?

So it’s come to this: The traditional Nativity scene now has to go high-tech.

To protect Baby Jesus from low-lifes who are looking for a free Christmas gift or politically correct types who don’t want your religion in their city, churches, local governments and ordinary people are fighting back.

In Wellington, Fla., city officials put a GPS device inside their life-sized ceramic figurine of the infant Jesus. When the statue was stolen, they simply followed the GPS signal to the apartment where the thief had taken it.

A family in North Richland Hills, Texas, set up surveillance cameras to protect their Nativity scene. Sure enough, Jesus was “adopted” by some teenage girl. Police have the tape and will pay her a visit if they can I.D. her. Maybe they could ask her if she has suddenly become a mother of sorts.

Gosh, this seems like a lot of trouble.

Has anybody thought about wiring their Jesus figurine to about 500 volts of thief-deterring electricity?

OK, I know that’s not a very Godly thought, and you’d probably get sued for insensitivity.

Still, you gotta admit it would be fun to see one of these creeps jump about five feet into the air and wonder if the Lord was sending him a message.

Merry Christmas.