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my father is an alderman at the church we grew up in.

I recently learned that he voted in a closed door meeting to not report CSA to the state because they wanted to do their own "internal investigation". This was obviously morally and ethically wrong.

I can't respect him anymore. he's not a bad person, he's just so caught up in preserving his own groups image that he's forgotten all morality. Lowered himself into tribalism and subjectivism.

How do I deal with this? I know it would be all to easy to say to hell with him and keep my principles and conscience clean. But still I do genuinely love him and it breaks my heart that I can respect him anymore.

After doing what he's done, and my mom defending him, I don't know if I want my future children to have anything to do with them since they've shown they don't take the safety of children seriously. just breaks my heart that they've chosen a literal child molester over a relationship with their own fucking child