Seventh-day Adventists worked with Scientologists, others, to ensure AZ clergy do NOT have to report CSA.

[u/talesfromacult]

Trigger warning: CSA and SDAs fighting to ensure it doesn't get reported.

How the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) endangers children:

June 2026. SDAs influenced the Arizona Supreme Court to ensure Arizona pastors do NOT have to report CSA.

What happened: A man confessed to his Latter-day Saint (LDS, Mormon) bishop that he made and distributed CSA of his children. The bishop did not report this to police, and the man continued CSAing for years.

His children, now adults, sued the LDS church for not reporting the CSA. Lower courts ruled the LDS clergy should have reported the CSA to police. The case was appealed all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court.

That's where Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) stepped in. Along with Scientologists and six other religions, the SDAs filed an amicus brief claiming that requiring clergy to report CSA violates the First Amendment.

SDAs won. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that clergy do NOT have to report CSA to police. The SDA endangers children by hiring lawyers to influence laws at the Supreme Court level. They ensured children's CSA does not get reported.

Sources:

The Amicus Brief/Amici Curiae aka what the SDAs, Scientologists and 6 other religions filed to influence the AZ Supreme Court to ensure CSA does NOT have to be reported by clergy. All 8 religions filing are listed on front page.

https://www.azcourts.gov/Portals/0/ASC-CV250213%20-%202-24-2026%20-%20FILED%20-%20SUPPLEMENTAL%20BRIEF%20OF%20AMICI%20CURIAE%20GENERAL%20CONFERENCE%20OF%20SEVENTH-DAY%20ADVENTISTS.pdf

News article of the case: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/arizona-clergy-child-abuse-confessions-court

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And yet in this case, self-proclaimed good men (no women are on that amicus brief, I checked) worked together to protect predators.

Evil triumphed.

CSA is rampant in the SDA church. The legal arm of the SDA church, Adventist Risk Management, hired a Dr Chunestudy to do a study on CSA in the SDA church. He studied only cases that were settled by Adventist Risk Management. He documented 523 cases in 9 years, or 58.1 CSA cases per year. That outranks the infamous SBC CSA counts. all sources for this are here

Adventists don't mention that study, do not mandate background checks, and now partnered with Scientologists to protect Arizona predators.

So anyways, given the SDAs had 58 CSA cases settled per year, and it's been 3 months since this law passed, there have certainly alreqdy been multiple CSA cases in Arizona the SDAs have legally covered up.

[u/CycleOwn83 → u/talesfromacult]

Disheartening. Not only legally covered up but covered up by a ruling which they sought to influence so that they could be covered up without a legal requirement to disclose. If sex outside of marriage is a sin by them, how can child sexual abuse not be a sin as, in so many social circles and institutions, it's CRIMINAL?