GOP legislator blocks bill requiring clergy to report child sex abuse #GOP
'An Arizona Republican is refusing to require clergy to report confessions of child abuse despite a horrific case involving the Mormon Church.'
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-legislator-blocks-bill-requiring-clergy-to-report-abuse/
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@DJNoneYa In Canada, everyone has a duty to report abuse. This is especially clear for teachers, community leaders and clergy.
Duty to report isn't an attack on the church. Abuse is an attack on the church. Protecting abusers is an attack on humanity.
Clergy can go to jail if they wish. Conservatives cannot be allowed to jeopardise the lives and welfare of the vulnerable.
@DJNoneYa In another place, he was quoted as saying confidential confession is a practice that has exited for 2,000yrs.
If that's the basis for this resistance, and he can't prove it, then what? Because the "seal of confession" is not found in the origins of Christianity.