Letter: Confessions to bishops put young people at risk

It is time for legislation to prohibit ecclesiastical leaders from receiving “sexual related confessions.”I am LDS, and in recent years have been surprised when a bishop felt that it was warranted to publicly disclose information regarding sexual misconduct confessed by a child. Such shame and embarrassment, if publicly revealed, might even invite the child to take their own life.A child is open for coercion when adults with significant power and authority, coupled with powerful pers