What should we do??

My daughter is in missions.

When my daughter was young, she was part of a "City Council for Youth."

A girl that had been a friend of hers since first grade, and who attended church with us, and whose family (until this happened) we believed to be good Christians - went to school together, and often ended up at the same functions together. (As in school related functions.) The friend has always been star-struck and hungry for fame.

One day this friend showed up at an awards-party with a New York MTV camera crew in tow, saying she had been asked to participate in a documentary on how one girl in a small conservative, religious town, dealt with issues like sex-ed.

About 10 minutes into this, the "producer" approached the young man my daughter was dating and asked him to pose at the "friend's" boyfriend, because it would "make the documentary more real" if the girl had a boyfriend. The young man refused.

My daughter is very beautiful. I'm not just a mom bragging, she has often been approached by friends who are involved in television or advertising to be a model and has always refused. She believes strongly that parading her body is wrong. I think she feels more strongly about it even than her Dad and I do. She noticed the camera that was supposed to be following her friend, was spending a lot of time following HER. She asked them to stop.

In the mean time, we learned the film was basically mocking Christian beliefs, and told the family we wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. Our daughter was still a minor.

She went to another school function, and the producer showed up, and started handing out "scripts". The kids threw them out and told the producer to leave them alone.

The crew showed up at some of the council meetings, again, filming my daughter. Again, my daughter asked them to not include her.

The girl's father showed up and begged my ex-husband to sign a release form saying the producers really wanted to use the footage that included my daughter. He refused. Then they contacted me. I refused.

A few months after my daughter's 18th birthday, a man called me and said, "I was editing this film for the Sun Film Festival and we have a lot of footage on your daughter, but we have misplaced the release." I said, "You never had one. We never gave one, and won't." He tried to talk me into one, saying it would take major editing to get her out of the film. I said, "Edit."

Three days later, the other child's mom showed up at the door, asking for my daughter. Basically she said, "You're 18, you can release it yourself." My daughter refused.

Her other Christian friends refused.

Well, the film WON the Sun film festival.
This morning, an old friend stopped by my office and said, "Hon, am I losing my mind? You know that film about sex education that makes fun of Christians? I would have sworn I saw your daughter in it. The scenes at the youth council meeting."

I called my daughter, and she said, "I just heard. Matt just called me. He said it is at the swimming pool." I said, "They have pictures of you in a swimsuit on a film about free-sex?" She said, "I don't know, Mom. I don't remember any cameras around me at a swimming pool."

Thankfully, she was NOT in a swim suit. She had attended an event held "around" a pool, but was in a dress-suit, not a swimsuit.

STILL - we don't know what to do.

Do we hire an attorney?
Do we call our own press conference?

 

Thank you both!

 

Okay -

I talked to one of our Pastors, and a Deacon who is a lawyer. They all recommend a firm sounding letter that demands a re-editing of the film to remove any images of my daughter, and points out that it is slander for her image to appear in a film she totally disagrees with after she specifically stated they did not have consent to use her image.

We also talked to the local station that has a copy of the film. They said we're not the only parents to complain. They said we do have a law suit. They are going to pull it from their schedule, but unfortunately this trash won the Sun Film Festival. So our local stations aren't the only worry we have.

 

lol Mioque

 

To be honest, Joseph, I wish I could shut it down totally.

The film basically mocks Christian values in regards to premarital sex, and in regards to homoesexuality.

I believe the whole thing was a work of satan. The girl in the film was never a strong Christian. She grew up in one of the more liberal Methodist Churches. My daughter, and another good friend, discovered she wasn't attending any church and invited her to a Baptist Church in town. She attended a few months, then announced that we were too rigid for her. She started attending a non-denominational church in town.

She had conservative values, but as far as any of us knew, she had never come to Christ.

Well, in comes the New York producers. Both Lesbians, saying they want a "Southern Baptist Christian perspective." They do a lot of film at the girl's "new church," and present it as a Southern Baptist Church, but it isn't.

They mock "True Love Waits."

They imply that anyone who opposes them is "crooked," "hate filled," and "ignorant."

What the film doesn't show is all the nonsense in the background.

The producers tried to stage things to present the absolutely worst perspective. They actually handed kids scripts.

Our city is dry. There are, outside of town, liqour stores we can't do anything about, but the city is dry. The film shows a bunch of liquor signs, then cuts to kids in a parking lot, implying kids are hanging out at liquor stores. The thing is, the kids are at the parking lot of a coffee shop in town.

They cut out the dialogue of every Christian in the film except for the girl's minister, who, bless his heart, stands firm on the bible regarding sex education, but they manage to make him look like a whacko.

They slander the head of the student city council, and accuse him of using inappropriate ways of winning election. The fact is, the boy was popular, the girl was not.

They don't show how the girl's relationship with her own mother was almost destroyed. Its only a mother's love that keeps them speaking at all.

The releases they tried to have people sign were dangerous and unbelievable. They asked for the rights to use any footage of the children on the film, "in any way" into "perptuosity." For all we know, this girl may end up in a porn film some day since her father agreed to that nonsense.

So, yes, I want them shut down.