TV writers....

[kengr]

... really need to do their research.

Tonight's NCIS: New Orleans has a baby getting kidnapped. the parents are a married gay couple. One of whom is in the Navy (not sure about the other).

Just a *minor* little problem.

In Louisiana, gay marriage is illegal. So is adoption by gays.

So the NOPD *wouldn't* be cheerfully supporting NCIS in the search. even if the officers involved were sympathetic, *legally* there'd be all sorts of problems.

But the episode doesn't have a hint of the fact that there'd be any problems with the marriage or the adoption (and from the storyline, the adoption *was* done in the state).

So while it's nice to have a storyline involving a couple of dedicated gay dads and their daughter, it is ignoring the not *remotely* "minor" issue that they could *have* the kid legally in that state, nor would the state recognize that they were married.

NCIS: LA, it'd work. Original NCIS, maybe. But NCIS: New Orleans? Not a chance.

Comments

[kengr]

Nope. Anybody who knows anything about gay rights knows that Louisiana is if not the *worst* state legally, it's in the bottom 5.

So I can't even grant them "attempt". It's more like *insult*.

It'd be like having a story about a mixed-race couple that's having some problem or other, just like a white couple. But setting it in some horribly racist place/time and not having anybody act like there's anything wrong with them being mixed race.

Utter fantasy, complete "whitewash" of reality. *Denial* of reality.

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