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Mandatory reporting is nothing new. Applying it to the confessional is. But I really don’t see a reason for the state to consider a confessional to be privilege
by wat10000 2y ago
Mandatory reporting is nothing new. Applying it to the confessional is. But I really don’t see a reason for the state to consider a confessional to be privileged in a legal sense. The religion’s views on its rituals carry no legal weight.
- cgriswald 1y agoThe state has already legal defined confession to be in the class of privileged conversations. Given the sensitive topics a person might address in confession, I think it is pretty easy to see why it might be privileged quite irrespective (and in fact, despite) the religions views on its own rituals.