• arockinyourshoe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “The church claims, and lower courts have ruled, that to hold them liable would violate the religious freedoms of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, since it involves weighing the appropriateness of religious conduct.”

    Let’s just keep in mind, they held a 15 year old girl and her parents in a room to repeatedly play her recorded rape for hours, in an attempt to “extract” a confession out of her for her sins.This is what they’re defending here, under “religious freedom”

  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    This is wildly violent, I can’t even imagine the lack of basic human empathy you’d need to subject a child to that. I’m not particularly religious, but if there’s a hell, whoever would subject a child to that is going to it.