Posted on 09/08/2011 10:42:09 PM PDT by Cronos
The diminutive songstress who played a high school dropout on “Glee” and originated the role of Glinda in “Wicked” is just as comfortable talking about her Christian faith as she is her support for gay rights.
In a recent interview with The Advocate, she explained how she can hold both dear to her heart.
“I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do,” she told the gay-interest publication. “But at the same time, I don’t think being gay is a sin. Period.”
Chenoweth, 43, who grew up in Oklahoma’s Bible belt, cited her grandmother as inspiration.
....Asked how she would respond to people who cite their Christian beliefs as the basis for discrimination against gays, she said with a laugh, “I would ask, ‘What would Jesus do?’ It sounds so cliché and Pollyannaish, but I have a feeling if he were on the earth today, he wouldn’t be walking around saying, “You’re going to hell” and “You’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong.” I think he’d be accepting and loving.”
Using her tiny stature as an example, she said, “What would I do if it was a sin to be short? That’s the way God made me, so what could I do? Let’s see, I could wear heels, I could tease my hair, and maybe on a good day I could be 5’1″. But the bottom line is, I’m 4’11″ and that’s the way I was put together. And that’s what I believe about homosexuals.
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What I find interesting is when anyone(usually someone in the entertainment industry) seems to think he or she can say something along the lines of “I’ve decided such and such activity(usually involving sex) is not a sin.” That makes about as much sense as someone saying “I’ve decided I’ve got 900 billion dollars tax free in my bank account” when in reality he has only 37 cents in it.
God alone, not man, makes the decision about whether something is sinful or not. I’ll take His word revealed in the Holy Bible over the words of some flavor of the month celebrity that I’ve never even heard of before.
What would Jesus do? He would probably say the same thing to gays that he said to the woman caught in adultery: “Sin no more.” Kristin probably skipped this passage in the bible.
Another “Christianity is what I want it to be” psuedo-Christian heard from.
We are all sinners saved by.Grace; but if we love the Lord we are going to want to serve Him and obey Him.
We may occasionally stumble, but not continually wallow in sin. The Holy Spirit will ping our conscience and help pull us out of the mire.
All sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sin.
Period.
well, I can't speak for all, but us conservative Catholic freepers here believe that:
I doubt you'd get many clamoring to answer that! But there are many freepers who condone pre-marital sex and "live-in relationships" -- they are a product of this society.
Speaking for myself, no I haven't. Would I have done this when in my early 20s I was agnostic at best? Probably yes, but didn't get the opportunity -- at times the opportunity just slipped away and at other times I "didn't get it" -- now I believe it was God giving me a helping hand at a time I was weak. Then, I just thought I was a nerd!
Since I've been married I have no such intentions -- not because I'm "better than" most people -- I'd say I'm about average in getting tempted, but thanks to God's grace I don't act on it -- I really do honestly, deep down, believe that marriage is a Sacrament, a duty, a Holy call, a vocation. To me to cheat on my spouse is more than just cheating on her, it is sinning against God by rejecting Him.
I think the problem in our society stems from us accepting this change in morality from "marriage is a Holy Sacrament" to "it's just sex, preventable or gay or whatever"
Imho, the way in which we have devalued marriage has made "gay marriage" acceptable -- if it's just a contract, big deal, eh?
the problem is that these celebrities, etc. use their own interpretations of the Holy Bible to justify what they want.
Indeed I do not think the Bible makes a ceremony mandatory.
These are not new questions at all. The reason is that questions about rights of married persons and hereditary rights of their children probably pre-date any recorded history.
I’ve read entries about marriage in many of the legal dictionaries and NONE of them say a ceremony is required. In fact, a ceremony can be performed, but in most cases the marriage STILL does not exist until it is consummated.
Here are a few of the things that courts might look at:
Are they living together as man and wife?
Have they made an open declaration of their intent to marry?
Have they consummated the union?
Are there offspring involved?
Has she taken his name or he taken her name?
Have they, as a couple, acquired property in both their names?
Now once again none of the above taken by itself is considered conclusive. But these ideas and this same concept is recognized in every society that exists or has ever existed worldwide.
Anderson’s Dictionary of Law calls it the oldest and most important transaction in life, the basis of the fabric of all civilized society.
NONE of the law dictionary entries I have ever read define marriage as being anything else than a relation between a man and a woman, who openly chose to and consent to a perpetual union.
You can't have it both ways.
I had no idea she was so short.
I saw her in “The Apple Tree,” revival and she was deeply annoying. One of those really modern Broadway belts that make me throw my hands over my ears.
Learn how to be a better performer instead of giving interviews to the Advocate!
You are absolutely correct. Jesus would tell them to stop engaging in a sexual relationship, and He would call it sin.
Society ignores the importance of holiness these days, but Jesus never forgot it. “Be holy, as I am holy.”
The only sexual relationship God has called holy is a marriage between one man and one woman.
We are all called to live celibate lives if we are not married, without exception.
God hates sin. He hates it. And when we ask Him to overlook our sin, we make Him an accesory to the sin He hates.
I am very sorry to see Ms. Chenoweth join the overlookers for the sake of a Hollywood career.
“...sex outside the marriage. Does the Bible condone it?...”
IF you believe God and that HE is the author of the Bible, there is NO way that you can see sex outside of marriage, between one man and one woman, as anything but sin.
Today’s culture has negated the notion of sin....because many people today are afraid of REAL change and REAL Love.
Sad...
(Personally, I see far too much emphasis placed on disordered homosexual sex. Heterosexuals are just as guilty of misusing this wonderful gift that God gave us.)
The "all of that" is belittling beyond telling. No Christian is she. She has no clue about the very basic truths of the faith.
Well, Jesus loved enough to seek to save people from their sins. Yes, there are behaviors that are harmful and self-destructive upon those who practice them, and honestly it is a Christian duty to encourage people not to practice certain behaviors, of which sodomy is one.
This lost girl is beguiled—There is NO credible evidence that God ever Created anybody homosexual. Her comparison of a genetic trait to an orientation is so uneducated she is either willfully blind and Stupid—or ? she clearly is not an obediant Christian.
“Did God really say....?”
It’s not just celebrities, sadly.
If she's actually read her bible like she claims, then she knows that being tempted is not a sin, but acting on said temptation IS a sin.
But of course, she'd never say that because it isn't "cool".
Nope. It's called fornication and is a sin.
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