Courtesy www.nfl.com and Muck
This sort of thing bothers me greatly, the pastor/redskins fan was told something that while not strictly speaking a religious matter, but it has implications simply because the pastor showed such little discretion that it is surprising that the man is a clergymen.
Haslett did not tell him this stuff in the confessional, he did however rely on his discretion due to his position, and this dude could not wait to blab about a private conversation on a public forum, that is unethical and clodish and could get Jim Haslett into deep trouble all due to this lunkheads' zeal to seem important on a football fan forum for goodness sakes.
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Ohiophinphan Chaplain Staff Member Luxury Box
Sorry, but I'm not clear what happened?????
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Ohiophinphan Chaplain Staff Member Luxury Box
Legally unless it was bound by the confessional the pastor was free to disclose. Morally it was reprehensible. I get lots of privileged information in the course of pastoral conversations that are not "bound" but I keep them inviolate anyway. As a pastor, you just can't do that!
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Now "if" the pastor felt the need to speak, at best he should have not attached a name to it, even then it still would have exposed Haslett to detective work to discover he was the one who said it, so it would have been more professional just to not have said anything at all.Ohiophinphan likes this. -
Ohiophinphan Chaplain Staff Member Luxury Box
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Clergy have an obligation to deny themselves a simple pleasure such as gossipiing on a message board about even casual conversations. Basically what is told to you even in casaul conversations simply must go through a filter of "what is best for the person who spoke to me?" rather than how much one's ego can be pumped up by spreading what was told in confidence.
In some ways, clergy are Maitre' De's...
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Uhm self obvious or no? -
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Ohiophinphan Chaplain Staff Member Luxury Box
The profession of "clergy" has had a reputation for confidentiality and discretion. It has been earned over the centuries. This, like the misconduct of too many others cuts away at that. You may argue whether it should it exist at all but it is something that helps me do my job and I guard it religiously (pun intended). Haslett appears to have counted on that. It should have been there.
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