Christian GLEE!

[ralphy512]

I am the multimedia director for the youth group at my church. I am planning on creating a Christian episode of Glee that looks at struggles that Christian teens face in school. Many of the characters would be played by someone with the same name - we have a Rachel, Finn, Brittany, Sue, Holly. And our worship director's name is William S.

One thing that I am struggling with is what to do with the character of Kurt. As we know, homosexuality is a touchy subject among various Christian groups and I wouldn't know how to approach it - it would be particularly touchy to have a Christian character who is homosexual. At the same time, Kurt is such an integral character in the series and it would be noticeable if he were not in in.

How do people think I should approach this?

 

[fuji]

Wasnt there a Christian episode on glee already? The one with "Grilled Cheesus"?

I like your thinking though.

 

[miss-a]

I think you could have a Kurt who was part formerly part of the gay lifestyle and his struggle is with folks still thinking he's gay or unsaved folks who try to talk him back into it, as in "it's okay to be yourself."

I acutally saw this happen in real life. I worked in a halfway house and one of the residents had gotten out of the gay lifestyle and embraced her Christian roots. The therapists went nuts and nearly drove her nuts trying to get her to "accept her true self."They had no clue that the point was that's what she'd done by accepting Christ. So I could see you writing this as the dynamic tension that the Kurt character needs to have.

I love the idea of a Christian Glee. I hope you can post the video. I've tried to watch glee a couple of times, but there's something about it that just doesn't work for me. I rarely have made it through a whole episode because there's usually something in it that is said that wrecks it for me, sometimes in the first 2 minutes, and it's not usually Kurt issue, but rather some kind of coarse "humor." And it's such a shame because the concept of the show cool. The execution of it, not so much, IMO.