Posted on 03/12/2013 11:53:50 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
So I was looking over the wife’s shoulder while she was watching “Project Runway” on Lifetime TV. During a commercial break, Lifetime aired a promo for a new show that debuts tonight.
The promo begins with the familiar Aretha Franklin tune, “I Say a Little Prayer,” playing in the background.
A young woman, looking like she works for some sort of escort service, is getting dressed. She oh-so-sexily applies her lipstick and mascara before teasingly stroking her hair.
She surveys a rack of clothes before deciding upon a dress that looks very much like lingerie. She puts on a pair of suede high heeled pumps then walks down a flight of stairs (in slow motion, of course).
I thought the promo was for some spin-off of “The Client List,” the Lifetime series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a lovable housewife-next-door turned high-priced escort.
But, in fact, it was for a new Lifetime reality show – “Preachers’ Daughters” – that most Christians, I suspect, will find offensive. Not the least because it promises viewers that the series will “raise some hell.”
“Preachers’ Daughters” features three families, headed by pastors, with teen-age daughters. Each episode, according to Lifetime, offers “a hard-hitting but often humorous look at the lives of these pastors’ daughters as they balance the temptations every teen-ager faces with their parents’ strict expectations and code of conduct as influenced by their faith.”
Of course, the problem with putative “reality” shows is that they present a decidedly distorted picture of reality. And so it is with “Preachers’ Daughters.”
Olivia, the 18-year-old daughter of Mark Perry, pastor of Everyday Church in Oceano, California, spent her high school years partying hard, abusing drugs and alcohol. She got pregnant and, so promiscuous was she, she didn’t even know who her baby’s father was.
Taylor, the teen-aged daughter of Ken Coleman, pastor of City of Refuge Pentecostal Church in Lockport, Illinois, rebels against the rules set down by her dad, sneaking out of the house, kissing boys and yielding to temptation. Taylor says “my alter ego kind of wants to be a porn star.”
Then there’s Kolby, the 16-year-old daughter of Nikita Koloff, a former professional wrestler who makes the family’s home in Spring Hill, Tennessee but is now a traveling evangelist. Kolby’s mom Victoria, who is divorced from her dad Nikita, happens to be a preacher herself, hosting a faith-based radio program. Teen-aged Kolby complains that before every guy she dates, “my mom has to interrogate him.”
“God made the world in seven days,” says Lifetime’s promo for “Preachers’ Daughters.” “Moses parted the Red Sea. But if these preachers can control their teen-age daughters, it would really be a miracle.”
Well, I know that there are some teen-aged pastor’s daughters that drink, that abuse drugs, that are unwed moms. I imagine there are a few here and there that get caught up in the sex business, perhaps even becoming porn stars. And I accept that there may be a few reared in broken homes, where dad and mom, both pastors, are divorced.
But that’s not the reality of most preachers’ daughters. In fact, most are well-adjusted. Most are respectful of their parents. And most take seriously their Christian walk.
I know this not only from following the activities of Christian youth, including PKs (preachers’ kids), but also from first-hand experience. Because I grew up with two God-loving, self-respecting sisters who are preachers’ daughters.
Lev 18:17 “‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness”
Apparently he thought Leviticus was a shopping list!
Watched "The Good Wife" lately? (actually the Christian daughter was a very small part of a few shows last season)
ABC had a series last year..GCB (stands for “good christian bitches)..lasted all of 10 episodes before getting cancelled..let them keep on wasting their $$$..
In the interest of open honesty, I admit to falling off the path to righteousness when I was on active duty.
High School.
Baptist.
Technically not true, since Druze are big on honor killings. Kurds are among the world leaders, and not all Kurds are Druze. It's not uncommon among various Hindu groups in India. Copts in Egypt are into it, too.
Still, I agree the vast majority are Muslim. Just not the percentage you cite.
During that rebellious phase kids run the opposite of their parents. Biggest dopehead I ever knew was the daughter of a vice cop. As for the TV show... it’s always amazing to me how anti-woman the “woman’s” network is. Lifetime, where women get beaten, raped and murdered. And now they have reality programs featuring some of the most obnoxious women on TV; many of whom are probably going to get beaten, raped and murdered. Really if the Playboy channel showed these same shows unaltered in any way the women’s movement would be in massive protest, but put it on the “woman’s” network and it’s all OK.
““God made the world in seven days,””
No, He made it in six days. He rested the seventh.
“Especially being the daughter of the sort of Preacher who would agree to do this show.”
Deserves to be posted twice.
I’ve known several teenage pastor’s daughters well enough to speak on this issue at this point in my life, and not one - not one - was anything but lovely.
Alliteration at its most ironical.
That's very true. And on the seventh day, Marines filled sandbags.
There is probably a different kind of pressure as the child and teen of a pastor. The pastor has to be able to keep his house in order and even a kid raised right can fail temptations. Hormones and peers are huge pressures for the best kids. I mean, adults fail.
I guess Billy Joel was wrong when he sang, "You Catholic girls start much too late."
Hollywood garbage.
“And on the seventh day, Marines filled sandbags.”
Well, assuming Adam and Eve were Marines.
Have some chocolate, then you’ll figure it out.
“Have some chocolate, then you’ll figure it out.”
Que?
I doubt chocolate will help.
You’re in worse need of chocolate than I thought.
Satan once again uses Hollywood to trash his enemies....why would anyone be surprised? My pastor’s kids (including his quite beautiful college age daughter) are more typical Christian kids - studious, respectful and not involved with the party scene. ‘Course, that wouldn’t make a very interesting show by today’s standards, would it?
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