Allegedly the show’s star, Kristin Chenowith, proclaims that she is a Christian in real life.
Yeah....well....a LOT of folks ‘claim’ to be Christians. And a lot of those same folks are fine with abortion, including partial or late term abortions, and are fine with legalizing same sex marriage and other things considered abominations in the Bible. They are only fooling themselves.
I would ask Chenowith how she’d feel if all of the Christian references were switched to Muslim instead. I’m sure her “”Christianity”” would forbid such a spectacle....lol.
I guess like Britney Spears is a Christian.
I know nothing about Chenoweth beyond a quick Google search of the internet.
That turned up items such as the following which seem to make clear she's a professing liberal Christian who supports Barack Obama and is in favor of “homosexual marriage.”
My guess is the casting people deliberately selected her to avoid the claim that they are attacking Christians, but instead are making fun of hypocrisy. Ratings showed that viewers didn't buy it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/fashion/10nite.html?_r=1&ex=1149048000&en=1c327886d7ea4cf2&ei=5070
“Ms. Chenoweth, a Southern Baptist turned nondenominational Christian who doesn't drink or smoke, said her new album is the result of her growing awareness of her life's mission. ‘I feel my purpose is to be a Christian actress, to show people that there are nonjudgmental, liberal Christians,’ she said.”
Again, from an article entitled “She Sings! She Acts! She Prays!”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/theater/03Gree.html?pagewanted=all
““I maybe have a bit of career A.D.D.,” she explained. “But I always did five million jillion gazillion things a day.” Which may be what it takes to satisfy a personality that combines, in one tiny frame, faith in Jesus, sexpot allure, strict professionalism, insane girly-girliness, triple-threat talents and a steely, restless need to exploit them all to the fullest. She’s like a bag of puppies, each ambition tumbling over the others in a desire to get out. And sometimes those puppies bite.
“God knows I’ve made mistakes and been criticized for them,” Ms. Chenoweth said unflinchingly. (Some have even been turned into TV fiction on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.”) “When I was promoting ‘As I Am’ last year,” she said, “I went on ‘The 700 Club,’ ” Pat Robertson’s talk show on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “I wasn’t thinking about what it represents. I guess I was living in a little bit of a bubble, and I was surprised that it upset so many people. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t go, because I don’t agree with that antigay stuff. I don’t understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. What if it was a sin to be short? Well, I guess it is in the Miss Oklahoma pageant.” (She was the runner-up in 1991.)
But when she assured her theater fans that she supports gay rights her Christian base was outraged; she was disinvited from performing at a Women of Faith conference in September 2005. She drew further criticism when she appeared in a parade of tiny bikinis in the March 2006 issue of FHM. Though even her parents were uncomfortable, she’s stopped apologizing.
“I’m a young woman, I like men, I’m not going to pretend to be what I’m not,” she said. “Anyway, I’ve finally graduated from the college of I Don’t Give a Hoot.” But “hoot” was not her first choice of words.
If she’s surprisingly salty, it’s in part because she’s tired of trying to calibrate or camouflage her opinions. (She was wearing a Barack Obama for President button, and said she prays for him.) What she does onstage is difficult enough without wasting energy performing offstage too. As it is, she’s often awakened by work knocking around in her head. “Last night,” she said, “it was this line from ‘The Apple Tree’: ‘The Really Real Acting Academy has shown me that all my films, alas, are naught but tinkling trivia, sugary, shoddy, shallow shadows. Schlock.’ How am I going to say that? How am I going to make that funny? It’s so frustrating because people say, ‘It comes so easily to her,’ or ‘She’s just playing herself.’ Well, I work my butt off. These ideas don’t come from nowhere. You have to think them up. Sometimes I think until I think my head might explode.”
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/mar/04/kristin-chenoweth-different-kind-church-lady-gcb/
“Chenoweth relishes the part. ‘This series is exactly what I believe,’ she said. ‘I play a Christian on the show, and I am one in real life ... I do believe in Jesus, coming down here and dying on the cross for us. He was the most perfect man ever created ... I believe in the basic doctrine of Christianity (but) not every single thing.’”
So she believes Jesus Christ is created? Either the reporter misquoted her or she wasn't paying attention in her Southern Baptist Sunday School or her Baptist pastor has a **LOT** of explaining to do about the Trinity. I think that qualifies as a "basic doctrine of Christianity."
For those who don't recognize the implications here, at best Chenoweth's statement is Arianism, which was condemned by the Nicene Creed seventeen centuries ago; it's the same view held by Jehovah's Witnesses today, not Christianity. Realistically, Chenoweth is probably confused rather than a deliberate heretic.
This is not a minor doctrinal error. If we understand the extreme sinful wickedness of humanity since the fall of Adam and Eve, we should understand the need for the Trinity. If Jesus Christ is not both fully God and fully man, his sacrifice is not sufficient to atone for our sins. Jesus Christ is not a created being but fully God as well as being fully man.
From the same article: “’GCB’ isn’t a musical, but Chenoweth says it can speak volumes about faith. ‘I pray every day. I read the Bible. I take the meat from it daily,’ Chenoweth said with a slight laugh. ‘It feeds me. I throw away the bones of it. I don’t choke on the bones.’”
Okay, so she thinks the Bible has bones that can be thrown away. What was her church teaching? Let's hope she rejected truth, not that she was never taught truth.
Here's a video of Chenoweth explaining her career as a Country and Gospel singer, defending her role on GCB and Glee, and defending her views on homosexuality (start at 3:35 on the video):
http://www.mlp.org/article.php/KristinChenoweth
Her theology seems to be that homosexuals are okay because God “doesn't make mistakes.”