As COVID-19 vaccine mandates grow, so are requests for religious exemptions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – After Denver announced this month that city employees and workers in hospitals and other high-risk settings must be vaccinated against COVID-19, Colorado’s Catholic bishops told parishioners how to seek a religious exemption.

That’s despite the fact the Catholic Church does not oppose the vaccines and Pope Francis has said he believes that, ethically, everyone should get one.

In Louisiana, Attorney General Jeff Landry created a form for those who object to mask and vaccine mandates, allowing them to assert they do not consent to “forcing a face covering on my child, who is created in the image of Gawd.”

“I believe that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and that I am called to honor God in how I care for my body,” the form states.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trust-god-to-be-our-healer-as-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-grow-so-are-requests-for-religious-exemptions/ar-AANmXjr

[Pobeka]

1. Then when they test positive and need an ICU, send them home and let GAWD handle it.

Save the ICU's for people who suffer from illness that was not easily preventable.

[louis-t]

2. Oh, that policy will be abused.

Count on it.

[sanatanadharma]

3. I am prepared to excercise my religious rights and get an exemption...

I am prepared to excercise my religious rights and get an exemption to being required to wear clothes.

As a convert to the Naga Baba sect of Hinduism, my deeply held religious belief mandates full nudity.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. These exemptions aren't flying unless they were there before

If you got any other vaccine in your life, your religious exemptions don't apply. At some of the colleges, the colleges have made it clear, you're going to have to prove your religious exemption, claiming it isn't going to work unless you can back it up.

[keithbvadu2]

7. "If..." --- On the button!

[NightWatcher]

5. So maga is a religion/cult?

I don't know a single person who is anti mask/vaccine who is not a trumphumper.

[3catwoman3]

6. In my 45 years as a peds NP, it seemed as if parents would typically claim a religious...

...exemption because it is difficult to challenge. I didn't believe them most of the time.

[joetheman]

8. Self-relicide. nt

[Johonny]

9. Covid doesn't make exemptions for religion, neither should vaccine mandates

[bluestarone]

10. I really believe that they left out one sentence on this religious request form

At the bottom, it should read that according to my religious beliefs, i also request NO MEDICAL treatment when i do get COVID!