Source: azmirror.com 7/30/26 Advocates warn the broad ruling lets predators use a ‘confessional loophole’ to escape justice The Arizona Supreme Court sided with religious leaders this week who argued the state’s clergy-penitent privilege law shielded them from reporting child sexual abuse to authorities. And in declaring that any intervention by the courts would violate the First Amendment, the justices made clear they don’t think any changes to Arizona law aimed at forcing clergy to report abuse would be constitutional. “We hold that the First Amendment generally prohibits factfinders from…
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