By Karen Best

What would a soap opera be without a dramatic storyline? It would probably be a sitcom or a television series. One of the star’s of the show One Life To Live intents to bring some of the on camera drama to real life.

Fourteen year soap opera veteran, Patricia Mauceri, is considering taking legal action against television company ABC.  Mauceri believes she was terminated by the show because of her religious beliefs. When Mauceri received storyline changes for her character, Charlotte Vega, she decided to ask questions. Mauceri objected to the changes because she is a devout Christian and the storyline required her to be supportive of her on camera son, possibly being gay.

Mauceri claims she “did not object to being in a gay storyline. I objected to speaking the truth of what that person, how that person would live and breathe and act in that storyline … And this goes against everything I am, my belief system, and what I know the character’s belief system is aligned to.”

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