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Somewhere in a ex-communist country in Eastern Europe, the corpse of the secret police starts showing signs of life, animated by the sheer amount of irony cours
by GeoAtreides 1y ago
Somewhere in a ex-communist country in Eastern Europe, the corpse of the secret police starts showing signs of life, animated by the sheer amount of irony coursing through its decayed body.
I never knew I would see the day the West would pass the same authoritarian laws used behind the iron curtain to spy on their own population. To be fair to the West, at least it's packaged neatly in a 'for the children' package; the communist totalitarian regimes didn't bother with explanations or 'reasons'.
In case it's not clear: priests were compelled to spy and report on the population by the secret police.
- BryantD 1y agoThis law does not compel anyone to spy. It does say that priests, like teachers and psychologists, have a duty to report if they have "reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect." I see arguments on both sides of this but it's not compelling priests to spy. It's removing religious freedom protections from a long-standing precedent.
- GeoAtreides 1y agoLike I said, it's packaged neatly, but the end of result is the same: breaking the sanctity and confidentiality of the confession, exactly like in the totalitarian regimes... and making priests agents of the state.