Washington’s Catholic bishops sued the state over a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse, claiming religious discrimination.
SEATTLE — Washington state Catholic bishops are suing the state over a new law that requires clergy members to be mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect.
The Catholic church’s top bishops in the state filed a lawsuit Thursday, arguing the new law violates their First Amendment right to practice freedom of religion and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the complaint, the church said the state is targeting the church in a “brazen act of religious discrimination” and that the law
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