The Trump Administration moved Monday to join a legal fight to overturn a new Washington law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect even when it is disclosed in confession.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You know that evangelical institutions cover up CSA every bit as much as the Catholics were, right?

    For some reason it’s not as talked about. But it’s there and it happens.

    They don’t want priests to be mandatory reporters either. Even if, technically they don’t believe in the seal of the confessional.

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      8 hours ago

      I’m not well enough brushed up on my Christian sects to recognize the difference. I must be misremembering a different word for Christian fanaticism.