Review: NBC Drama is 'Gay Agenda' Soap Box, Knocks Catholicism
by Randall Murphree
February 2, 2006
(AgapePress) - - NBC's drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit used its December 6 episode to champion same-sex parenthood while heaping disrespect and shame on the Catholic faith.
Detectives Stabler and Benson (series stars) get the case of Shawn Hammil, a 12-year-old St. Victor's Catholic School sixth-grader, who is dumped from a speeding car near the hospital. He has been stabbed in the back.
Stabler and Benson charge into the school office demanding to know why Father Justin dumped Shawn from his car at the hospital. (It turns out that someone else took Father Justin's car.) Nonetheless, the officers are arrogant and rude to the Catholic school officials from the outset without cause or provocation.
Shawn had been harassing Emma, an eight-year-old schoolmate. When the school officer explains to the detectives that Emma is the daughter of two lesbians, Det. Benson sneers and retorts, "So what's the big deal? Same-sex couples raise children all the time."
Zoe (the birth mother's lesbian partner) tells cops, "Our faith is important to us. We want Emma to have a Catholic education."
Shawn finally confesses he cut Emma's long pony tail, and Emma confesses to stabbing Shawn in retaliation. Zoe's attorney shows up saying Emma's confession is not permissible in court because her mother was not present when she confessed. Zoe was present, but the birth mother is dying in the hospital.
Emma's Catholic grandparents seek temporary custody of her but fail in court. After seeing photos of Emma and Zoe naked on the bed together, the grandparents charged Zoe with sexually abusing Emma.
Emma tells the cops she felt that it was a sin for Zoe to touch her "all over." But Dr. Huang (apparently a police psychiatrist) declares that Emma's two moms taking naked photos and touching her "all over" do not constitute abuse.
Instead, the bigoted, moralistic grandparents abused Emma emotionally by leading her to think those things were wrong. The grandparents are thus charged with a hate crime and arrested for abusing Emma.
To prove that lesbian parenting is good for kids, the district attorney cites research from the American Sociological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Social Workers.
The defeated grandparents accept a deal (to get charges against them dropped) to testify against their attorney. Zoe rejects the grandparents' apology, then she and Emma stride arrogantly out of the room, presumably to "live happily ever after."
Randall Murphree, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is editor of AFA Journal, a monthly publication of the American Family Association. This review, reprinted with permission, appears in the February 2006 issue.
