>>>Neither of these would pass any legislative body, anywhere.<<<
It will pass the House of Representatives if only a few hundred thousand of us contact them (they are already close). It will pass the Senate when a few dozen of those corrupt prima donnas get voted out of office.
It will pass neither House. Peter King was backpedaling like mad, yesterday, insisting that the provision in HR 4437 which would make felons out of priests who hear the confessions of an illegal without asking for "papers" would not do that.
The Catholic Church has scared the hell out of these Congressmen, and rightly so. Penalizing clergymen for doing their job is insanity.