Yet the Left would eagerly jail Project Veritas folks for daring to show Leftists for what they really are.
Reminds me of the verse :
"Choose ye whom you will serve,
Serve God,..or mamon "
As Dennis Miller said, “If I ever got into a confessional I’d say, “You First!””
Frankly, I don’t know how a priest — or anybody else — could justify keeping quiet if they were told that a child was being victimized by an abusive caregiver.
Keeping such a secret somehow seems enabling of the crime. Let’s protect the victims first... then we can deal with the perp in due course.
Catholics may wanna string me up for this, but I feel comfortable thinking that the Almighty would prefer getting our priorities in the proper order... which is stopping the crime first.
As far as fighting crime, this is totally useless. Once passed, the criminals will just stop confessing these sins.
So the only things it helps is further the government abuse of the church.
The real reason for this legislation is so that the pervert politicians can be voyeurs for the Glory-Hole escapades being committed by the Catholic Priests upon the penitents.
Great government movement to send priests to jail.
For a priest to violate the seal of confession is a mortal sin and automatic excommunication.
So they’ll have to choose death or jail rather than violate the seal.
That’s basically what this stupid law would mean.
You’re not going to get the, to change their mind on this nuisance law. It would be overturned in court as well and be regarded as extreme government overreach.
People thinking this is anyway good are plain ignorant of what Catholics believe. Yes it does mean Martyrdom for priests, possibly violence against the state as well.
So for all you anti-Catholic bigots, you think it should also be mandatory for wives to testify against husbands? Psychiatrists against patients? Lawyers against their clients? There might be a lot of crimes in those conversations.
You are bigots.
I can’t find one example of these mandatory reporting laws ever being prosecuted anywhere for confessions, much less anyone supporting these laws actually explaining step by step how they envision it theoretically working in practice. Which seems like a pretty low bar to me. So what is up with the passage of these laws? Is it just symbolic political garbage or what?
FReegards
The Nazis put microphones in the confessional booths.
How is this different?
The only reason to pass a law like this is because the state hates anybody having a shield against them in any situation.
It's not about helping children, it's about increasing the power of the state.