Glyn Moody1d ago
Priests claim sexual abuse charges violate their religious freedom - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/25/priests-claim-sexual-abuse-charges-violate-their-religious-freedom.html "Their lawyer is claiming, in effect, that being a priest should exempt them from rules that apply to everyone else in similar roles."
Priests claim sexual abuse charges violate their religious freedom

They are not being charged for being priests. They are being charged for abusing the power that comes with it.

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Religious freedom: oddly used term.
Perhaps it is time for a State religion, synthetic and without any claims or pretence of being true or revealed. Form rather than underpinnings.
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