Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse

[TreasonousBastard]

5. The law is written and operated by people of many states...

and jurisdictions. Moral an ethical codes are generally considered to supercede them and the law is often as not derived from them.

None of this really has anything to do with any deities, although deities have come in handy for justification.

When you go to a priest to confess, it is not to hide your guilt, it is to explore your guilt. Similar to what therapists and lawyers do.

I suspect this particular provision was due to priestly pedophilia, but it won't have much effect. Lawmakers and prosecutors will laud themselves on taking great steps to solve the problem.