Religion

priests not being able to engage spiritually. It's about giving someone an outlet to tell someone. It's why we also extend similar privileges in many jurisdictions to counselors or psychiatrists. We know this also because in some states, only the penitent holds the privilege, not the priest.

If one wants to argue there should be more limitations on the priest-penitent privilege, that's fine. Of course, it's not a universal privilege, you can get around it in military jurisprudence for example, and some states have exceptions for sex assault cases like LA.

But that's a different argument from getting rid of it entirely...are folks prepared to also get rid of the psychotherapist-patient privilege? The spousal privilege?