These people lawmakers can be moronic
A perpetrator would not go to confession
So what is the benefit of this idiotic proposal
I guess the law would also apply if a victim of abuse alleges that they told a priest about their abuse in confession. That is what happened in that case in Louisiana, if I recall. I wonder if it also opens up civil damages for something that was alleged to have been told in confession, doesn’t seem like there would be a way to defend from that, if it was allowed.
Freegards
To protect the perps? If a perp confess to a priest in the hope of absolution the priest will tell him he must take the proper legal steps to gain absolution i.e. confess also to the police. With this law in force the perps will not go to the priest in the first place and will not hear that requirement to pay temporarily for the sin. Perhaps there are not many who worry enough about the future of their souls enough to go to the police at the priest’s bidding but there are surely more than will without the priest laying out for them the consequences for their immortal soullls.