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angrychair

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8. This is why I'm an atheist

Wed Nov 8, 2023, 10:48 PM

Nov 2023

This is completely fucking insane.

These people knowingly let that person molest a child and did nothing and the courts are like "oh well, nothing to see here"

Seriously, what fucking world am I living in.

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Court cites clergy-penitent privilege in dismissing child sex abuse lawsuit against Mormon church [View all] Ptah Nov 2023 OP

WTF. pansypoo53219 Nov 2023 #1

May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Nov 2023 #2

Misogynist effing elders chose not to protect the little girls. MLAA Nov 2023 #3

Wow. It seems the Mormon Church is very influencial, wouldn't you say? Utah voted Trump twice, in case you need reminded keopeli Nov 2023 #4

They have to protect their pedophiles. I hope the girl who alleged being raped by trump when she was 13 years old Escurumbele Nov 2023 #20

There was a thread the other day complaining about painting religious people with RockRaven Nov 2023 #5

you either understand the penitent/confessional part of stopdiggin Nov 2023 #6

Good god! Chi67 Nov 2023 #14

Then should attorney client privileges or doctors confidentiality be flushed to? cstanleytech Nov 2023 #36

when it comes to sexually abusing your kid? or sexually abusing your orleans Nov 2023 #39

That might make it rather difficult for an attorney to provide a defense in a case where cstanleytech Nov 2023 #40

i'm not saying the attorney who reports would also be the defense attorney for the rapist orleans Nov 2023 #44

Generally speaking an attorney would only be aware of it if they were representing a client either cstanleytech Nov 2023 #45

I'm just glad that wasn't your 10,000th post. nt BWdem4life Nov 2023 #15

merely stating what the practice (and law?) prescribes stopdiggin Nov 2023 #24

The offense you don't understand is against the laws of the secular society that shelters them Hekate Nov 2023 #32

a misunderstanding stopdiggin Nov 2023 #34

Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part Hekate Nov 2023 #35

A criminal act should have NO exceptions! Duppers Nov 2023 #7

No exceptions? That would really cut down public defender workloads. After a suspect tells his assigned counsel that he 24601 Nov 2023 #31

This is why I'm an atheist angrychair Nov 2023 #8

--- but don'tja sometimes wish Hell was real? 3Hotdogs Nov 2023 #10

All too often in the last few years. nt Phoenix61 Nov 2023 #12

No, I don't ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 #19

You're living in the part of the world where christians ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 #21

Going by their relies beliefs they did what they could which was expelling him. Do I agree with them though? Nope. cstanleytech Nov 2023 #41

If you have ever Read "Under the Banner of Heaven" Bristlecone Nov 2023 #9

LDS were the first whites in several parts of AZ not fooled Nov 2023 #11

That's good news an appeal will be filed Mysterian Nov 2023 #18

WTF? Chi67 Nov 2023 #13

Should be criminal for clergy not to report crimes and in general to be mandatory reporters of crimes. PufPuf23 Nov 2023 #16

Problem is the Constitution and its treatment of allowing freedom of religion. cstanleytech Nov 2023 #42

This is the second time the mormons ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 #17

The results of Mormon's failure to stop a known Child abuser Farmer-Rick Nov 2023 #22

"religious exception" waiver is utter BS, just like the tax exemptions bringthePaine Nov 2023 #23

Typically part of the penance sarisataka Nov 2023 #25

I always understood if the confession was to a crime that had already taken place, it was protected. Freethinker65 Nov 2023 #26

Here is an interesting document melm00se Nov 2023 #27

Yup its the same problem with passing laws regarding guns. cstanleytech Nov 2023 #43

The Court's position on melm00se Nov 2023 #47

WTAF?! sakabatou Nov 2023 #28

There's a similar situation in the Catholic Church. ificandream Nov 2023 #29

Parents protect your children from the three "C's". republianmushroom Nov 2023 #30

Let's hear it for religion. Vinca Nov 2023 #33

Lord, I Have Enough Trouble Gagging Down the Abuse of Attorney-client Privilege The Roux Comes First Nov 2023 #37

All Mormon men 12 or older are 'clergy' pfitz59 Nov 2023 #38

Total grandpamike1 Nov 2023 #46