Trump’s Justice Department weighed in too, calling the law “anti-Catholic” and saying “a more direct burden on the exercise of religion would be difficult to imagine”.

The fuck it is. There’s plenty of easier burdens to imagine than making priests mandated reporters for child sexual abuse, such as:

• Banning them from holding public positions.
• Outlawing the practice of religious ceremony in public places.
• Making tithing illegal.
• Disallowing religious symbols outside of private residences.
• Removing tax exemptions for religious organizations.

See? It’s really not hard. And those are far worse for Catholics than not being allowed to protect pedophiles.