Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
The Republican Party has always had a clear, sustained pedophilic pattern to its behavior.
Conservative politicians and church members do fill up a huge list of convicted pedo
Catholic priests in Washington state cannot be required to report child abuse or neglect they learn about through confession after the Trump administration intervened in their favor
as it seeks to define transgender rights and healthcare for under-18s as a form of "child abuse"
So if a Catholic priest learns through confession about a trans kid getting lifesaving healthcare, they aren't going to be required to report it.
Do two wrongs make a right?
They'll still do it. It doesn't forbid them from it, just doesn't enforce it. These shit bags will continue the status quo of hurting those they disagree with and enabling pedophiles.
Theologically, a priest breaking the seal of confession is a grave sin and warrants immediate excommunication. No priest is risking this to out someone during confession.
Good to hear Catholicism prefers keeping priests employed over protecting children from being raped and abused. What a great religion.
It’s not just employed, it’s also safe from eternal damnation for breaking the seal and saving others.
Yea, that's what I said, "shit bags".
Since Washington State law supports trans care for minors, would reporting it even harm anyone? Is it even a sin to be confessed?
As for the argument that if they report the rape and abuse confessions the pedos won't confess, then the result is that they don't get absolution and their souls burn in hell.
LoL Stupid LiBRUl! This is for RAPING CHILDREN not TRANS children! A priest can STILL Report a Trans child if it gets them Closer to Heaven! Just like they will PROTECT A child Rapist to get Closer to Heaven!
Religion is not above the law. Fuck off with your child molesting.
About what I would expect from a pedophile
Because of course. This would harm Trump and all his buddies.
Every. Little. Thing. The GOP does is projection. So that stint about them being against pedophilia straight up means they are all pedophiles.
Implying they confess their sins or even have faith.
Thank you, Trump, for protecting rapists in the name of religious freedom.
What the fucking fuck? Is this a joke?
Sadly this is not.
Not the onion?
Trump Attacks Children Often.
Republicans want to keep gay and transgender people from being around kids, ostensibly because they think those people are pedophiles or groomers. Where is that energy when it comes to catholic preists abusing kids?
I was raised Catholic, but it's been a long time since I've done a confession, I've been an atheist since before I knew there was a word for it and so I haven't set foot in a church in decades except for weddings and funerals.
But I'm not entirely clear on how this sort of reporting would be supposed to work
There's usually some sort of screen between the priest and the person making confession, so you can't really get a good look at someone to identify them. I'm sure there's some cases where a priest might be able to identify a regular regular parishioner by voice, but that feels like kind of flimsy evidence. And if someone goes to confession at a different church, or just doesn't attend or interact with the priest one-on-one regularly, then there's basically nothing to go on. Are they going to launch an investigation into half the Catholics in town to determine which one of them might be a child molester?
I suppose the priest could get up and try to chase the person out of the church to get a good look at them, but thinking back to the fat old guys who were the priests at the churches I went to growing up, I'm pretty sure I could be out the door and in my car speeding away before the priest managed to stand up in his booth to try to follow me.
If you're lucky, maybe someone waiting in line for confession could identify them, but the handful of times I went, the church was never very crowded for confession, and I doubt most of the people there were paying too much attention to who was coming and going around them.
If the church has security cameras, I suppose you could identify someone that way, it's been like 20 years so I can't remember if my church growing up had cameras or what their current situation may be. If they did, I doubt they were pointed at the confessionals of all places.
Sure, they should be required to report what they can, but I doubt there would be many cases where it would lead to anything actionable.
You just report it. Doesn’t matter if you can identify the person. The cops work out that part.
If a priest was embezzling money from the church then he'd be reported and files charged and attempts made to get restitution.
Only the crime of diddling children earns this top-down cover up and forgiveness. It's rage inducing.
Fuck the catholic church. It needs to be treated like a crime syndicate. And get rid of it's nation status! Why the fuck does an apartment complex get to be a whole FUCKING COUNTRY? EU needs to dismantle that ancient ghoulish institution.
Like, why?