Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the origi… more »



[the detectives are investigating the murder of a gay man - they have in custody a reverend who was protesting at his funeral]

Det. Elliot Stabler:
[reading his file] Reverend Mitchell Shaw... you really get around. Protesting in Vermont, at the Supreme Court... cheering at the funeral of a six-year-old who died of AIDS.

Det. Olivia Benson:
Maybe you should switch to a career in publicity.

Rev. Mitchell Shaw:
The Lord asked me to do his work.

Det. Elliot Stabler:
Did he ask you to ignore all that, uh, "love thy neighbor" stuff?

Rev. Mitchell Shaw:
"If a man lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death, their blood is upon them." Leviticus.

Det. Elliot Stabler:
The Bible also says I can sell my daughters into slavery and be put to death if I work on a Sunday. 12 years of Catholic school. Anyone can memorize words, Reverend. Doesn't make 'em righteous.

Rev. Mitchell Shaw:
The city is filled with sodomites and you waste your time protecting them, and yet you wonder why so many of your NYPD brothers were struck down on September 11th. Do you not see the Lord's judgment upon you?

[Elliot shoves away the table and gets right in Shaw's face]

Det. Elliot Stabler:
I see a scared, shriveled-up piece of trash who uses God to justify his bigotry.

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