How Sleepy Hollow is "one for all."

 But in an insidious way.

SPOILERS

The television show made a commentary on gay "marriage." The character Ichabod Crane utters an "Is that considered acceptable now?" when the camera focuses on two men in a restaurant holding hands; Lt. Abbie Mills follows through that the view on homosexuality has changed since Crane's time and that gay "marriage" is being upheld by the Supreme Court - stating that it is a constitutional right with aid of more states legalizing it. Crane then corrects her saying "I mean gentlemen wearing hats indoors." 

A pathetic plug to ingrain that, somehow according to a bastardized interpretation of "all men are created equal", that same-sex "marriage" is a constitutional right. The scene then finishes with Crane recalling that the Barron he trained under during the Revolutionary War was a homosexual - this plays the "I know one person who was a homosexual, who did good things, so it's no big deal" card. Besides the Barron, he admits to being exposed to homosexuality via Glee finale.

The show does a good job on updating Crane on modern things - credit cards, mobile phones, modern dress, tax, pastries - but this "update" was out of left field. The setup seemed awkward. 

What makes it even more insidious was the layout for this very scene. In the episode before this, there were dialogues about marriage, to further explain the background of other characters. There was talk about marriage being a business to fortune and marriage being something special - more the love between two people than anything religious.

The only things that were shown as remotely religious, at least in the realm of the superstitious, were the usual things: churches, possession, purgatory, a priest getting his head twisted 180 (killed); another priest getting decapitated (this show kills of priests rather inhumanely), using salt, crucifixes and rosaries as weapons to walking evil. In other words cliche after cliche. All the showcase one has seen before if they were remotely interested in either tv or film. There was no actual talk about marriage having an ounce of religion in it, though I assume that the character of Ichabod Crane isn't religious due to his "science over the superstitious" line when Mills urged him to make a wish before he blew out his birthday cupcake.

Overall the show is very witty, but when I reflect on his gay "marriage" scene it reveals how inconsistent the writers are in their own views (more libertarian than anything since the Constitution is at least mentioned once every other episode). It's basically a show that plugs in modern interpretations of the constitution.

I'll update this post once I find the part where the 2nd amendment (gun rights) was commented on.