Barba must argue that the First Amendment does not give a person the right to break the law when a woman is raped by a member of her church group.Barba must argue that the First Amendment does not give a person the right to break the law when a woman is raped by a member of her church group.Barba must argue that the First Amendment does not give a person the right to break the law when a woman is raped by a member of her church group.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
- Dave
- (as David Julian Levi)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOrlagh Cassidy has played three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 18.19 Conversion (2017) - Cheryl Davenport
- Episode 11.11 Quickie (2010) - Mrs. Christensen
- Episode 3.2 Wrath (2001) - Valerie Plummer
- GoofsIn the beginning of the episode, Lieutenant Benson refers to Odafin Tutuola as Detective, but he was promoted to Sergeant two episodes earlier.
- Quotes
Rafael Barba: His lawyer's invoking the First Amendment?
Amanda Rollins: He claims he was trying to cure her, and the victim does, too.
Rafael Barba: The victim?
Dominick Carisi Jr.: Yeah, she admits that she was raped, but she doesn't wanna press charges because she thinks the guy did it for the right reasons.
Olivia Benson: None of that matters. Ann didn't consent. It was rape.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: Right, but if she really believes that what he did was curative...
Rafael Barba: Even if you buy into this demented doctrine, a patient has the right to refuse care at any time.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: Of course, but I'm just saying that given her religious beliefs, all right, it's more than possible that this kid's defense attorney is gonna lather that up into consent.
Rafael Barba: Yeah, I agree. So we've gotta help Ann see the light, so to speak.
Odafin Tutuola: And how do we do that?
Rafael Barba: Use your imagination. Religion has been used to justify everything from genocide to the war against Christmas. I'm sure we can twist it in our favor for once. Just get her on our side.
- ConnectionsReferences The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Such a church is on a field trip to that noted sin capital of the USA New York City and Reverend Kip Pardue sees young Jessie Carter run into an old friend Sarah Nicole Deaver who left the Hooterville, Indiana community she came from and is grateful to see Carter whom she shared confidences with about their sexual orientation.
Pardue sends one of the young men of the church group Casey Cott into action with the mission to show this virginal young woman what she'd be missing if she went lesbian.
Sad to say for them that law enforcement in New York City headed by SVU head Mariska Hargitay sees this as rape. The frightening thing is that Kip Pardue sees the all fired greater sin is the love that dare not speak its name.
From where I sit the reverend made only one mistake, he should have waited to send young Cott into action when he got back to that part of the bible belt they inhabited. If law enforcement did bring charges against Cott he might have gotten a jury that would have bought into this.
This is no exaggeration. Beliefs like this come into being when people are pounded from certain pulpits that the worse thing you can be in this world is one attracted to the same sex. Sanction a relatively minor sin like rape to stop one from going gay? Absolutely the case, just look at the recent Alabama Senate race.
I can't tell you the hundreds of LGBTQ people I've met from small towns like this church group came from who fled to a big city as soon as they could. Just like Sarah Nicole Deaver. I grew up in a big city before Stonewall and bad as that was, I can't conceive of living in a place such as where this church group came from.
The episode could have been a bit subtler. But true, believe me every word of it is.
- bkoganbing
- Dec 31, 2017
Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD