This is absolutely the scariest part. We’re not going to have enough people to fight back effectively until most of us are already in fucking camps or dead.

Legally, they have no choice

They have a legal obligation to refuse every unlawful order he gives, including all these immigration policies. The military is not Trump’s personal plaything, even if he wants it to be.

I’d argue, and this isn’t easy, the church can continue to use the rule.

The rule of shielding child molesters. I read exactly what you said and quoted it. Now I’m going to enjoy my weekend and not give you any more time to defend child molesters, because what the fuck.

I’d argue, and this isn’t easy

Then don’t? There is absolutely no reason society needs to obey objectively evil arcane rules because some dude who has absolutely no say in how we run society says we should.

I still have absolutely no idea why people would jump in to defend the churches right to keep CHILD ABUSE secret. It seems like you would either be afraid of getting discovered, or you have so little faith in your church that you’re afraid they’re going to get discovered.

Are you seriously arguing that child abusers should be protected by the church because of historical precedent? Why the fuck do you think any policy that hides child abuse is okay?

If you know a kid is getting hurt and you don’t say anything, you are a giant piece of shit. If you defend those that don’t say anything, you are a giant piece of shit. I hope you reflect on that before putting some imaginary sky daddy rules before a living and breathing child. The same ones he told you guys to protect and you decided to rape them instead.

I wonder if you would react with the same outrage when this was a bar association reminding their lawyers of the disciplinary consequences of violating confidentiality agreements.

If the Bar Association told their lawyers not to report child abuse from their clients you would have a point. And confidentiality agreements are not going to protect child abuse. The Catholic Church is going out of its way to protect child abusers in order to maintain their “reputation”.

with the help of an anesthesiologist or another medical professional

Usually medical professionals aren’t involved because it’s a violation of their oath to do no harm. So then these sadistic bumblefucks just do whatever they want.

A shitload more now.