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Pol Wants to Pre-Screen Amish Show
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| News Date | Thursday, July 8, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The office of Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) has put in a call to UPN asking for a private screening of controversial new reality show Amish in the City. UPN announced a July 28 debut for the series Thursday.
Last March, UPN decided to go ahead with the series, which looks at the Amish right-of-passage known as rumspringa, despite requests from some legislators and Amish groups that it pull the plug. They argued that the series would exploit the religion and pointed out that being filmed violates prohibitions on graven images.
A Pitts staffer says the news of the debut took them by surprise and that they put in the call to UPN almost immediately. "We want to make a fair judgment of the show," said the staffer, "though regardless of content we still believe the filming was an extreme violation of their religious beliefs. Pitts has about 18,000 Amish constituents in a district that includes all of Lancaster County, Pa.
During Rumspringa, Amish youth are allowed to live outside of the community and its restraints, then reenter–or not–of their own free will. Evoking a sort of Amish version of MTV’s Real World, youth journeying outside the community are brought to the city to live with urban youth, with UPN chronicling the interaction. |
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