Image CreditU.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger The military is denying requests for religious exemptions because officials disagree with the theological views of service members.
Members of our military pledge their loyalty to the Constitution. Its First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion. So, it would be perverse to force men and women in uniform to abandon their deeply held religious beliefs to serve their country.
Yet that’s what’s happening regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandates — for which the normal rules seem not to apply.
The Air Force recently discharged its first active-duty members for declining to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Those 27 are likely the first batch of many to be discharged on these grounds. Thousands of our servicemen and women have requested religious exemptions. So far , not one has been granted. A Direct Line from Abortion
Last September, an Air Force Academy graduate requested a religious exemption . As a Catholic, she objected to benefitting from vaccines developed or tested on cell lines derived from a procured abortion .
The reviewing chaplain denied her request. What’s troubling is that he did so on theological grounds. If this case were unique, we might not worry much about it. But this is just […]
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Much of the reason the 1st Amendment exists is due to the un-Biblical and extra-Biblical diktats of the catholic and anglican churches. The idea that a priest should decide, much less one that is in the government’s employ, is 100% counter to the purpose of the 1st Amendment in the first place. Yet she was denied an exemption based on the diktat of a catholic priest, who blatantly bore false witness, including extremely lazy and ridiculous assumptions about the origin of drugs such as Tylenol to make a childish and spiteful argument, and in so doing is complicit in murder himself, by participating in forcing people to take a dangerous and deadly drug, and also by participating in dishonest narratives about the efficacy.
It’s all about weeding good people out of the military.