A very reasonable explanation.
But I still attribute it to ignorance of Christ and what she professed to believe. The company she keeps, and the bonds she would make over the years - certainly is a good explanation as to why she would be exposed to this mindset - but if she had understood the faith she professed, and what it stood on, she'd have been more concerned about the eternal destination of the souls of her compatriots rather than being concerned about getting along with them, and winning their praise.
I don’t disagree at all. But this scenario is the same one we all experience everyday with people we know. They ‘move away’ and so forth for any number of reasons. New friends, political issues, a dipstick for/in a priest/pastor/congregation... and their new crew isn’t so devout as they ... so belief ‘evolves’.
In the case of musicians, it’s more concentrated. In regular life, there’s not that ‘forcing’ to work with so many gay/gay friendly types. And the openmindedness of the artistic leaves them with an entire flank unguarded.
Also, remember one thing. Many of these ‘conversion’ stories are based on the PR that the person involved was a saint to begin with. In reality, CE was probably no more or less ‘devout’ than the average ‘christian’ which is to say, ‘not extremely’.
But her PR people claiming she was makes for compelling backstory targeted to christian record buyers. Is that the case? I can’t say. But it has happened with MANY artists like her before.