Patricia Mauceri of ABC's One Life To Live claims she was fired from the show in late June because her religious beliefs did not allow her to go along with a storyline that involved her character's son coming out of the closet.
Mauceri didn't object to her character's son coming out, only to her character's reaction to the news: the mom Mauceri plays on TV didn't reject the fictional gay son played by some other actor on TV. The Right Wing Christian Gay Haters Club has adopted Mauceri as their new persecuted Christian martyr. Because, as Joe points out, none of us are truly free so long as daytime TV actresses aren't allowed to write and edit their own scripts.
