• womjunru@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    I mean, so if my religion says I can diddle kids and kill republicans, is that legal now?

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      16 hours ago

      In the like 40% chance you’re actually dumb enough to ask this unironically, no, what this means is if you work a confessional booth as part of your religion and somebody admits to diddling kids and killing republicans in the past tense then you not saying anything about it is legal.

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        1 day ago

        They just got a lot less obvious about it over the years. Fewer “compounds” and more “congregations” and “constituents”

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          1 day ago

          I’ve heard in passing New York has some Catholic communities that are pretty culty. Not saying other types of Christian aren’t also, but specifically some branches of Catholic in New York state

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          2 days ago

          Just because someone gets to do it doesn’t mean it’s legal. This mentality gives justification/defense to these acts.

          Specifically, this is about forced reporting of sex abuse against children to authorities, not about the act itself.