There’s a new show on MTV that is drawing criticism from several parents groups and some speculate the network could be facing charges for child pornography. Glenn sees the show as a another sign of the negative influences American youths are facing every day in popular culture.
Glenn read from The Blaze, “The show is called Skins. It premiered Monday, three million viewers. To give an idea of the show content according to The Blaze, the first episode opened with a young teen girl trying to sneak home after an all‑night bender without tipping off her parents. The series premiere alone included sex, drug‑dealing, alcohol, prescription drug abuse, sex, prostitution, smoking, homosexuality, violence, car theft, voyeurism and more sex. In fact, the entire premise of the first episode was how a group could get their 16‑year‑old friend to lose their very uncool virginity before their 17th birthday and after kids' friends wake up from their drug overdose and their stolen car is full of illegal drugs, rolls and crashes into a lake that the kids laugh it off. The end.”
“I don't know where we're headed,” Glenn said.
Stu explained that the child pornography charges could stem from the fact that most of the actors on the show are actual teenagers, some as young as fifteen, and that simply having filmed them in some of these situations is enough to bring legal action even if the footage never airs.
“Having it on film is enough to be a child porn, you know, charge. It's not just airing it on television. That's something completely different and a line I don't think anyone ever thought we'd cross but just having it on film is enough legally and they are talking about actually, this could be an actual issue with MTV,” Stu explained.
Glenn held up a picture of one of the actresses on the show and was reminded of the girls he saw in New Orleans who appeared strung out, abused, an lost. “I would imagine abused, living on the streets. I mean, just where you just as a dad or a human wanted to get out and just go, come, come with me, just come, come away, come away, there’s nothing but death here for you. It's evil.”
“I have to tell you that the one thing that I know is true is that if we lose this generation, this next generation, not only is the country in jeopardy, our souls are in jeopardy. This generation that is coming up now, they are different. They are powerful, powerful,” Glenn said of the youth in America.
“They're born spiritual warriors. Much more powerful I think than we are. And we must educate them and protect them and guide them,” Glenn said.