SPOILER: For those who think that stuff like this couldn't possibly happen in the real world
or that these are just cardboard exaggerated stereotypes of real conservative
religious figures, I would remind one and all that recently in Alabama 3/4 of white
voters voted for a chaser of young women who ran on a platform of sanctioning all kinds of deranged things to gay people. I'm sure Roy Moore would have volunteered to 'save' all kinds of nubile female teenagers from the 'sin' of lesbianism.
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.
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.