2. The Church hid ****.
Yes, as do the JWs and the polygqmous Mormon sect, as do the Mennonites and many other religious organizations. No doubt there are many good people amongst all those religions, but when their top leadership aids sexual predators by encouraging a policy of silencing victims, moving the predators around and refusing to let secular authorities know, that organization should lose their special rights. At least until they can prove that they have mended their ways.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/avykzz/child-abuse-and-the-church-666Earlier this year, the Methodist Church of Britain released an "unreserved apology" for failing to protect children and adults, following a report that uncovered 1,885 alleged incidents of abuse in the Church dating back to the 1950s.
Furthermore, on the Protestant side of things, the Church of England revealed last year that they were investigating the personnel files of thousands of clergymen and women as part of a probe into allegations of abuse,
Between 2008 and 2011, Britain's madrassas—Islamic religious schools—also faced more than 400 allegations of physical abuse, according to a BBC investigation,
Child sex abuse also appears present in the Orthodox Jewish community, the Channel 4 Dispatches program uncovering 19 alleged cases in the UK in 2013, none of which had been reported to the police.
Religious organizations need fewer protections, not more.