Soap Actress Fired for Opposing Gay Plot

After reading the comments I can safely say that there is a lot of hate coming from 'gay rights supporters', or whatever you're calling yourselves, aimed at anyone who dares disagree with you. And at least one post demanding that any opposing viewpoints be deleted. Talk about intolerance. When talking about hate and hate speech some of you people should take a long look in the mirror. You're guilty a hate yourselves.

Don't believe everything you read. Mauceri objected to her character being accepting of her (not) gay son who her character thought was gay, given the character's ultraconservative history on the show. Mauceri herself was in the 1997 gay film "I Think I Do" so we know she does do gay for pay, just not on the OLTL storyline's context. The head of ABC Daytime wanted her out and replaced with a younger actress, so she was set up for some Chris Engen-style buzz, plain and simple, and it worked.

If Ellen DeGeneres wanted to pursue a portrayal of a straight woman, she'd do it, and she would be awesome at it. It's called ACTING and she has the class to take that portrayal as far as the role requires and she'd be every bit as convincing as a straight woman, and at the end of the day, we'd just say damn good job. Brava. Do you honestly think every actor since the dawn of time necessarily agreed with their characters? George Takei is an openly gay actor and yet performed convincingly as the domineering father of Hiro on the Heroes series. He was asked to portray a straight character and did, with aplomb. Patricia Mauceri, on the other hand, obviously has some personal issues being able to separate herself from her character, and that's just sad. When you walk out that studio door at the end of a day's taping of a show, you should be mentally able to leave your character behind. She is not her character. No one asked her to be. She was asked to ACT.

I'll say it again because you folks are being so damn hypocritical heterophobic is annoying. If Ellen DeGeneres was fired because she didn't want to have her gay character go straight due to her gay beliefs, you folks would be up in arms. If Ellen DeGeneres chose to have her gay character turn heterosexual there would be triple the up in arms outrage directed at Ellen DeGeneres! Look in the mirror to see who's intolerant and hateful! And what's truly annoying is that they could easily have written the gay story line in for some other actor who had no such objections! Frankly, they fired this actor KNOWING they'd get publicity for doing just that, and maybe draw in some gay or gay interested viewers. Per this actor going on O'Reilly, you can be sure the gay agendaer that fired her has already called O'Reilly to set that up!!

I'm not sure if Patricia Mauceri has just flushed herself down the toilet as far as her acting career goes, after all, who knows, Tony Perkins could probably use her in some promotional material for the family research council or maybe Reverend Phelps could use her to hold up signs at people's funerals. She should enjoy that -- after all, it would be following her personal beliefs.

She didn't do her job, which was to act. Therefore, she was fired. I agree with her right to stand up for her beliefs, even if they are opposite of my own beliefs. I hope that she will some day find a way to temper the hatred she has in her heart for other human beings.

I'm proud of you Patricia for standing up for what's right!

PJR allow me to be honest, yes I am pleased that this woman was fired though to be honest it has more to do with her not doing her job than anything else. I work with people every day who do not agree with the Gay Rights, some of them report to me, and I would never fire them for it. However, those same people also do the job that they agreed to do every single day. I work for a conservative media company, do you think I've never disagreed with something we are doing or supporting? Of course, I have. I still go to work, I still do my job, I may protest our course from time to time but I have never failed to carry out my duties...which would be why I still have a job.

For Ms. Mauceri's firing -- she brought it on herself. It's common sense job protocol; you do the job that's asked of you, and if you refuse then you are let go. That's how ~every~ job is. Now, as for the ongoing argument about whether the same should happen to a GLBT actor playing a character with a contradicting stance: I think the same should happen to them as well. Although personally, I can't imagine why a GLBT actor would take the role of a gay basher in the first place, if they choose the role then they need to play it. Do your job or go home.

Wow, you guys are being incredibly nasty. Using highly insulting misogynistic terms to describe this women (cunt and the like), just because she disagrees with her CHARACTER's reaction towards a gay storyline, is ridiculous. What might very well be going on here is that she finds it incongruous to her Catholic character's belief system that she would accept same-sex relationships. She has not offered her own views on the subject. We don't know how much she protested, or if she was threatening to leave or not. What's more, other sources claim that the writers planned to do this: they wanted her to react this way to garner publicity. Not sure about the mechanics of that one but it's worth considering.