Glee guest star Kristin
Chenoweth has told CNN's Piers Morgan that she disagrees with
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on gay marriage.
The 43-year-old Tony and Emmy-winning
Chenoweth is best known for playing Glinda in the Broadway production
of Wicked. She also plays the recurring role of dropout April
Rhodes on the Fox musical-comedy Glee,
a role which has earned her an Emmy nomination.
In the fall, she'll play Carlene
Cockburn on the ABC dramedy Good Christian Bitches.
(Related: Mark
Deklin to play gay in Good
Christian Bitches.)
During an appearance on CNN's Piers
Morgan Tonight, Chenoweth, who was raised Southern Baptist, told
host Morgan that “God doesn't make mistakes.”
“I am a Christian and I would call
myself conservative in some ways and not so conservative in some
ways. And I don't think that the gay issue is a political one, but I
do think it's a civil rights issue. And I believe – as a woman, as
a Christian, as an actor, as an artist – that people who love each
other should be allowed to be married. And I know that doesn't go
along with what Mrs. Bachmann says, everybody that proclaims that,
but it is what I believe.”
The 4-foot-11-inch Chenoweth added: “If
it was a sin to be short, what would I do? Well I'd be right on the
hell bus. … I don't believe God makes mistakes, and that includes a
person's sexuality.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of
this page.)