'Law & Order: LA' plans Prop 8 episode

The overturning of California's Proposition 8 will feature in an upcoming episode of new NBC crime drama Law & Order: Los Angeles.

The measure, which banned gay marriage in the state for nearly two years, was recently ruled as unconstitutional.

Executive producer Rene Balcer told AfterElton.com: "One of the episodes that we're doing is [about] the money behind the Prop 8 people and the hypocrisy of black churches supporting a Proposition like that and also looking at the whole 'initiative industry' and how these lobbyists make a lot of money."

Balcer said that the storyline had seemed a natural fit for the new spinoff's Los Angeles setting.

She explained: "[We] were sitting around talking about it and thought, 'Okay, we got the first six stories. What's the next seven?' And then this came out."

Law & Order: Los Angeles premieres on September 29 on NBC.