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A Star Is Born: Christian-style American Idol sets up camp outside of Terri Schiavo’s hospital

(Knight-Rider) -- Terri Schiavo has been dead for three days, but hundreds of supporters remain outside of the Florida resting place where the Right-to-Life cause celebre spent her final days. The rest of America may have moved on, but the people here haven’t.

It’s not grief that has the crowds on their knees praying. It’s not the hope that a miracle will bring Terri back to them. It’s a chance to become one of the 12 contestants on the new PTL TV reality show Bethlehem Star, an American Idol-style contest for the devout.

While Bethlehem Star will surely be compared to Idol, the show’s producer says the differences are dramatic. “I like to say that we’ve swapped the scatological for the eschatological,” says Marshall Field, the man behind the new reality TV venture. “At Bethlehem Star, we urge our contestants to ask themselves this one simple question – What Would Jesus Sing? If you say, some secular trash by Clay Aiken, I think you need to try again. We may love the sinner, but we hate the sin, and from what I’ve heard, Clay’s been pulling double-duty.”

While Field originally intended to conduct the first of the round of the contest at Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia, the Pinellas, Fla.,-hospice quickly became a more appealing option. “If the Rapture came today, I bet the ground itself would spring up like a trampoline and the trees would fly out of their roots. There’s just so many of God’s children standing on this soil,” Field says. “As sad as it is that our Terri has passed, we must take some comfort knowing that Americans no longer have to leave their own country to walk in the Holy Land, what with the threat of Terrorism and all.”


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