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Judge blocks Washington requirement for priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession
(washingtonstatestandard.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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A clearly unconstitutional law. I'm surprised that state legislators thought it could possibly be constitutional. Maybe they didn't but they preferred to vote for it anyway and let the courts fix their mess rather than giving their opponents in the next election ammunition against them.
(I suppose practicing Catholics aren't a major voting bloc?)
Agreed! Don't they KNOW Abusing Children is a SACRED Part of the Religion? ANYTHING stopping Child Abuse would be ANTI CATHOLIC!