IN--Victims blast Indiana RFRA law & others that block child sex suits

By David Clohessy
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
March 31, 2015

http://www.snapnetwork.org/in_victims_blast_indiana_rfra_law_others_that_block_child_sex_suits

The dispute over RFRA laws – in Indiana and elsewhere – involves more than adults with differing beliefs. It also involves innocent young kids and wounded adult victims who suffer when claims of “religious freedom” are used to protect clerics who commit and conceal heinous child sex crimes.

Time and time again, in civil courts across the US, unscrupulous church officials cite RFRA laws to block child sex abuse lawsuits and prevent records about child molesting clerics from being disclosed. These self-serving church officials – fixated on protecting their careers, comfort and reputations – exploit RFRA laws to make sure their reckless and callous decisions to hire, promote, transfer and protect child predators are not exposed or scrutinized.

We urge every lawmaker to resist pressure to vote for these bills. And we urge judges to help make sure that RFRA laws don’t help corrupt church officials keep hiding their complicity in child sex crimes.

Remember: In the US, we adults are free to believe whatever we want. But we’re not free to do whatever we want, especially when the safety of precious children and vulnerable adults is at stake.