The Progressives have lost this battle before.
They would have more success if they were to apply this idea to lawyers.
Where’s the separation between church and state they keep clamoring about?
Catholic priests have died horrible deaths for not revealing what they heard in confession.
So what. If the Pastor doesn’t want to pas on the information, he can serve Jesus as a pastor to the inmates behind bars. It would be best if the state was not doing this, but my allegiance is to Jesus first, and if I go to jail for it, God has a reason for me to be there.
I got sent to Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic and God had a very good reason to send me there. The best three years of my Christian life.
Client-Lawyer privilege Has gone to hell.(Trump/Cohen) This seems like the next logical commie step.
Have you noticed that there are a lot more commercials about telling your doctor about how you are feeling during your doctor’s visit?
Remember that medical records are subject to subpoena. With the “red flag” laws, you could loose your gun rights just because you told your doctor you were feeling down.
Meanwhile, government agencies operate in secrecy.
I thought leftist demanded separation of church and state?
This would end rather abruptly once parishioners started confessing to false crimes.
I we as citizens required to report when deep state officials openly admit to crimes in public ?
California is the communists capital of America. This damn State is so far left that it beginning to look like Mexico’s annex.
Just how do they enforce this?
And at the same time, they pass a bill making pedophilia a “sexual orientation”. Go figure.
As soon as such a law is passed such confessions will cease. Authorities will accuse priests of lying about that because they know that there are x number of such confessions per 10000 people.The corrective new law to that will be insistence that all confessionals be wired.
so they’re trying to pass a bill that already exists?
Even with the threat of being drawn and quartered this would never happen from myself.
Try enforcing it. You’d have better luck trying to enforce gun laws.
Calif:
1. no straws
2. no bottled water in meetings held at public buildings
3. no calling a male Tranny “he”, same in reverse
4. require special catalytic converter
5. 90% of guns illegal there
6. background check for ammo, purchases limited
7. priests must rat on believers
OTHERS that I missed..?
A publisher, editor, reporter, or other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, or by a press association or wire service, or any person who has been so connected or employed, shall not be adjudged in contempt by a judicial, legislative, or administrative body, or any other body having the power to issue subpoenas, for refusing to disclose the source of any information procured while so connected or employed for publication in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for communication to the public.Nor shall a radio or television news reporter or other person connected with or employed by a radio or television station, or any person who has been so connected or employed, be so adjudged in contempt for refusing to disclose the source of any information procured while so connected or employed for news or news commentary purposes on radio or television, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for communication to the public.
As used in this subdivision, “unpublished information” includes information not disseminated to the public by the person from whom disclosure is sought, whether or not related information has been disseminated and includes, but is not limited to, all notes, outtakes, photographs, tapes or other data of whatever sort not itself disseminated to the public through a medium of communication, whether or not published information based upon or related to such material has been disseminated.
What is it that is so important in confession that it must be disclosed, but journalists are constitutionally protected from such disclosures?
Wouldn't it be more likely that journalists would discover more pressing information than clergy?
There are many people who call themselves journalists in California. What are the chances that some of them hide behind shield laws to cover up their own knowledge of illicit behavior?
Maybe California politicians should focus on amending the Constitution to remove absolute protections on MSM disclosures before turning on religion?
-PJ
With the DemonRats in charge of Kalifornia most sins aren’t civil crimes now anyway. They just legalized murder in NY. The tired, fallacious ‘clump of cells’ idiom cannot be applied to a newborn, living human infant but that didn’t stop them. Abortion is their unholy religion which they can’t afford to lose when RBG dies. This is all demonically inspired preparation to preserve Abortion when Roe v Wade is overturned and states rights to govern Abortion kick in.