Did the SVU squad ever have this one wrong, at first. When a young man is found in a churchyard stripped and dead with lots of drugs, the squad thinks its a drug deal gone bad, maybe someone looking to send a message. But later on they think this was a crime to conceal.
The victim was an aspiring actor who did a little male trade to pay the rent. The investigation takes Benson and Stabler to a fundamentalist church that's just this side of Freddie and the Inbreds Westboro Baptist Church and it is pastored by the Reverend Tim Daly and his wife Kathy Baker. They've given the world and their religion 10 children all of whom participates in some way in the church including the rather gruesome guerrilla theater they have to win souls.
However there's a gay person involved as one of the 'actors'. And just who was involved with the late victim.
As several states including mine are taking up the anti-gay conversion therapy ban laws that California and New Jersey have already passed, this episode takes on a needed relevancy. Corey Sorensen's story here has been echoed countless times in real life.
Make sure to see this SVU episode.
The victim was an aspiring actor who did a little male trade to pay the rent. The investigation takes Benson and Stabler to a fundamentalist church that's just this side of Freddie and the Inbreds Westboro Baptist Church and it is pastored by the Reverend Tim Daly and his wife Kathy Baker. They've given the world and their religion 10 children all of whom participates in some way in the church including the rather gruesome guerrilla theater they have to win souls.
However there's a gay person involved as one of the 'actors'. And just who was involved with the late victim.
As several states including mine are taking up the anti-gay conversion therapy ban laws that California and New Jersey have already passed, this episode takes on a needed relevancy. Corey Sorensen's story here has been echoed countless times in real life.
Make sure to see this SVU episode.