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POLICE MUST NOTIFY RESIDENTS WHEN
CATHOLIC CHURCH MOVES INTO NEIGHBORHOOD
Controversial "Egan's Law" Expected to Gain Widespread Support
Trenton, N.J. (SatireWire.com) � Under a new law designed to protect minors, local
police departments will now be required to inform residents any time a known Roman
Catholic church moves into their neighborhood.
New Jersey State Senate debating Egan's Law
The law also mandates that Catholic churches register with authorities, wear
electronic monitoring devices, and be prohibited from moving to within a half-mile
radius of a school.
A follow-up to Megan's Law, enacted by New Jersey in 1994, the so-called "Egan's
Law" is named for Cardinal Edward Egan of New York and Cardinal Bernard Law of
Boston, who are both accused of covering up sexual abuse by priests under their
authority. Like Megan's Law, Egan's Law is expected to spread quickly to other
states, but for parents in towns across New Jersey, it's on the books none too soon.
"Last year, we discovered that a Catholic Church had been in our neighborhood for
30 years! And nobody told us!" said Ruth Harper of Redbrook, N.J. "My sons used to
walk by that church every day on their way to school. Even now I shudder to think of
what might have happened."
"I always told my kids to steer clear of that place," added neighbor Scott Carlyle.
"But
that's because there were a lot of strange people going in and out at odd hours, even
at midnight on Saturdays. I was worried it was some kind of druggie hangout.
"To think the whole time it was a Roman Catholic Church. Now I know why they had
all those stained glass windows �. so nobody could look in."
Critics, however, charge that Egan's Law is unconstitutional, specifically because it
relies on religious profiling and is intended to safeguard only one segment of the
population: young males. But State Sen. Carmela Truto, a Catholic who co-
sponsored the bill, used church doctrine itself to prove only one segment needs
protection.
"In the Catholic Church, after 2,000 years, Mary is still a Virgin," she said. "So
clearly,
they're not interested in girls."
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