Allowing a religious exemption, to evade society protecting vaccines,

[kairos12]

is like giving utility workers allowance to use matches to search for natural gas leaks.

Consequences all around.

[msongs]

1. one suspects these exemption demanders are not religiously sincere nt

[LonePirate]

2. We need to start claiming religious exemptions for voter IDs, abortions, gun bans, etc.

If the right wingers want to claim bullshit religious exemptions for everything under the sun, so should we!

I'm sorry, Arkansas, but my religion makes abortion permissible at any time so I am claiming a religious exemption from your abortion ban.

I'm sorry, Georgia, but my religion prevents the use of showing a photo ID to perform constitutionally-protected actions. Take your voter ID law and shove it.

I'm sorry, Texas, but in my store we do not allow open carry or guns of any kind due to my strongly held religious beliefs. Get out and stay out!

[lindysalsagal]

3. Taxes are against my religion.

[LonePirate]

4. Except right wingers would support that exemption. It only works if they oppose the exemption.

[bluestarone]

5. The ONLY way i would agree to a religious exemption

For NOT taking the vaccination is THIS. A paragraph at the bottom that states by not taking this vaccination, i will rely ONLY on GOD IF i do get the COVID-19!! NO HOSPITAL treatment for me!

[jmowreader]

10. Why at the bottom?

That should be at the very top...in 36-point Helvetica Neue Black letters.

[bluestarone]

11. Won't disagree with you!

TOP IS even better!

[Hekate]

6. Speaking as someone in my early 70s, I can day I think this works IF people act in good faith...

So to speak.

When I was in elementary school in the 1950s we all had to be vaccinated to go to school. There were religious exemptions then — but the number of parents seeking them was small and they belonged to recognized religious groups.

So when we reminisce about getting the Salk and Sabin vaccines, and how the parents of the town lined us up around the block, there were some parents who refused, but they did not negate the total.

The place where it fell apart was during the rise of the anti-vax movement, when parents were swayed by misinformation and refused to vaccinate their kids on ideological grounds — we’ve lost or are losing herd immunity for whooping cough and other entirely preventable diseases. Gods help us if polio reappears.

[Locutusofborg]

7. "Congress shall make no law...

respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

[Sibelius Fan]

8. Why we allow belief in make believe to be an exemption for anything is anyone's guess.

[keithbvadu2]

9. If you got any other vaccine in your life, your religious exemptions don't apply.

If you got any other vaccine in your life, your religious exemptions don't apply.

(from another poster)