The Trump Administration moved Monday to join a legal fight to overturn a new Washington law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect even when it is disclosed in confession.

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    So Trump is openly supporting CSA? Put that on the gigantic pile of stuff evangelicals don’t listen to.

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      “ReLiGiOuS fReEdOm” and “pArEnT’s RiGhTs”.

      Anything that gets in the way of them being hateful and freely treating their children like property without consequence is to be shut down immediately.

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        Except for the parents right to let their child be their own gender.

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      You know that evangelical institutions cover up CSA every bit as much as the Catholics were, right?

      For some reason it’s not as talked about. But it’s there and it happens.

      They don’t want priests to be mandatory reporters either. Even if, technically they don’t believe in the seal of the confessional.