{"id":1580,"date":"2012-03-03T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2012-03-03T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:48:22","slug":"shame-on-abc-for-gcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/03\/shame-on-abc-for-gcb.html","title":{"rendered":"Shame On ABC For GCB"},"content":{"rendered":"

We keep pushing the envelope on taste and what’s acceptable in this country so far that even the bloated postal service couldn’t handle it.<\/p>\n

That may have not been the most clever sentence I have ever written, but it seems to suit the new ABC<\/em> series GCB<\/em>, which premieres Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Again, as I say with so many shows these days, “not that I’ll be watching”.<\/p>\n

Thanks to commercials for GCB, which I don’t care to display the initials for here, I have already seen enough of the show to loathe what it stands for.<\/p>\n

And I hope you will loathe it too, or what it tries to do. Go ahead, knock Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum<\/strong> for railing against the role evil is playing in our society today.<\/p>\n

Then turn on the television set and see some of the programs that are on, like this one, pitting nasty and vengeful women against other nasty and vengeful women.<\/p>\n

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Kristin Chenoweth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Cleavage makes your cross hang straight,” opines the sellout Kristen Chenoweth<\/strong>, in one of the mostly favorable reviews I have read of the show.<\/p>\n

My, isn’t she smart?<\/p>\n

“I feel confident the Good Lord would like me to have a new fur coat,” Annie Potts<\/strong>, of Designing Women<\/em> fame, chimes in.<\/p>\n

I feel confident the Good Lord doesn’t like what he sees in how we’ve become: disappointed would be one word, angry could be another.<\/p>\n

This show, heck even just its ads, desecrate the cross and disrespect Christ.<\/p>\n

Reason enough not to watch. I’m sorry I even spent a blog post on it, to be honest.<\/p>\n

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