Parents’ Group Protests Scandalous Liars

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Parents’ Group Protests Scandalous Liars

Well, this news was inevitable: conservative parents’ group One Million Moms is urging people to boycott Pretty Little Liars.

We’ve got the text of their petition below. Here are some of our favorite things about it:

1. Asterisks! Way to protect our delicate eyes by spelling it “m*rijuana”. We sure don’t know what on earth that word could be.
2. For scandalized moms, they sure have dirty minds. “A 17-year-old girl is at a bar, drinking alcohol. She meets a man, has s*x with him and lies about her age,” the petition claims, referring to Aria and Fitz in the pilot. Um, we’re pretty sure they didn’t have sex in that scene. Or s*x, for that matter.
3. How much it doesn’t matter. These kinds of howls from conservative groups are now so standard that PLL’s sister show Gossip Girl actually ran an ad campaign quoting their scandalized detractors. Stuff like this is only going to make superpopular PLL even hotter.

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Imagine a junior version of “Desperate Housewives” and you have ABC Family Channel’s newest program “Pretty Little Liars.” This new show is geared toward teens and airs on Tuesday nights at 8:00/7:00 central. The past several episodes have been rated 14-DL or PG-L.

Content from the first three episodes includes:

1) A 17-year-old girl is at a bar, drinking alcohol. She meets a man, has s*x with him and lies about her age. The same girl’s father had an affair. She caught her Dad and the other woman and he has asked her to lie to her mother about it.

2) On the first day of school, the man this girl has s*x with turns out to be her teacher and the two continue to have a relationship anyway.

3) A friend shoplifts, gets caught and her mother has s*x with the detective in order for the charges to be dropped. The mother also tells the daughter to lie and say it was a misunderstanding. Later her boyfriend turns her down when she wants to sleep with him because she seems desperate by throwing herself at him. She steals his car and wrecks it to get even. She is also bulimic.

4) A different girl thinks she is gay, has a female friend over for a sleep over and they share a bed. They cuddle. Later, they kiss in a photo booth at a party.

5) Another teenage girl is kissed by her older sister’s boyfriend when he enters her room and tries to seduce her. We discover later that she has kissed another older man.

6) During a flashback, this group of friends lit a bottle rocket and threw it into another less popular girl’s garage. Unfortunately, it sets the whole house on fire and there is an explosion. We know that someone was inside and she was blinded.

7) Two girls smoke m*rijuana.

8) Foul language written in letters and with lipstick on mirrors from a mystery person who is taunting them over a friend who was murdered. They are all hiding what really happened to her.

This series will deal with homosexuality, adultery, eating disorders, family dysfunction, deceit and underage drinking. In this new program everyone is lying about something.

Take Action

Send Coca-Cola and M&M’s (Mars, Inc), KFC and Pizza Hut (both owned by YUM Brands) an email letter urging them to no longer sponsor the show “Pretty Little Liars” on ABC Family Channel.

Your email letter will also go to The Walt Disney Company who owns ABC Family Channel to let them know that we do not approve of this “New Kind of Family” Channel and its programming.

Send Your Letter Now!

Sincerely,

Monica Cole, Director

OneMillionMoms.com

07.8.2010 / 03:32 AM EDT by Melinda
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