Supreme Court looks at private church records

This is very very interesting.

To summerize L.A. prosecution is attempting to obtain records of staff at a church to see if they have any written record of crimes. Church says it violates church and state clause of Constitution.

On one hand I wouldn't want to handcuff police in the practice of searching businesses for crimes of embezzlement or Enron-type collapses. Such a case would be similar to this one and a ruling for the church could hinder paper record investigations. But on the other hand I don't like the idea of the Government being allowed access to church records for most criminal searches. Look at Nazism and what they did with the Catholic and other churches during the Holocaust.

We will have to see how the S.C. stands on this. I would bet they will state it would be legal to look at church records for criminal investigations. We'll just have to see if it is the right choice.