When I was home sick yesterday, I read a lot of blogs and articles about the Kris vs. Adam thing, and I think it’s fascinating that American Idol turned into a “Christians vs. Homosexuals” thing in the last few weeks.
First of all, I’m a little ticked-off. So many Christians, Catholic and Protestant, have nothing good to say about television and especially reality shows. I’m wondering why they didn’t just mind their own business. This competition had nothing to do with morals or the homosexual issues–it’s a singing competition.
IMO as a musician, Kris is nowhere near the musician that Adam is. Kris is a good pop singer who sounds like a thousand other pop singers, except that Kris doesn’t articulate his words and it’s hard to understand what he says. In any Protestant church, there are dozens of young men who sing as well or better than Kris, and who play instruments, too, and write songs, and go overseas and build orphanages. Why did Christians choose this particular venue to turn it into an “Us vs. Them” contest? Like I said, I’m a little ticked over the last-minute intervention of Christians in a contest that ordinarily, they would condemn as “banal,” “worldly,” “materialistic,” etc.
Secondly, I personally think that Christians are still stinging from the loss of the “Christian candidate,” John McCain to the “Non-Christian candidate,” Barack Obama. So Christians decided that this time, by golly!–we shall not be conquered! So they voted for the “Christian” instead of the “homosexual,” (never mind about the singing ability), and this is making them all feel better about the Obama win. Hey, ya’ll, we may have lost the White House, but wowee wow, God helped us to win American Idol!
Hubby wanted Alyson in the finals with Danny.