It’s a show called GCB

Yesterday, I received an email from a friend about a new pilot program with ABC called “Good Christian Bitches.”  I thought for sure that it was an email hoax.  So I checked online.  Sure enough, ABC is creating this show, although it has not hit the lineup yet.  It is based on a book by the same title and the show reportedly features a recently divorced woman who moves to a Dallas suburb among a gossipy group of Christian women.  It is like “divorced woman meets Desperate Housewives.”  Only it purportedly has a religious edge; and one that puts down the Christian faith through parody.

Below is a letter to the editor that I sent to the Seattle Times.  I don’t know yet if the Times will choose to run my letter, but we will see.

Dear Editors,

ABC News is prepared to air a pilot called Good Christian Bitches.  They fear that the title may be a little offensive so they will shorten it to GCB in a desire to be sensible.

I ask you.  What would happen if ABC promoted Good Muslim Bitches?  Good Chinese Bitches?  Good Jewish Bitches?  They would be slapped silly for being anti-Semitic.  The outcry would have executives’ heads rolling!  So why is it tolerated that they not only create a title but indeed an entire show that parodies the Christian faith with such hate speech and intolerance?

Christians are constantly told that they are so paranoid.  That they are not the target of media insensitivity.  It is interesting to note that the Seattle Times, LA Times, and New York Times have not even deemed this a story worth covering!  We are all diminished through ABC’s blatant slam and act of cheap demagoguery.

Brian Boone, Edmonds, WA