“We think it is immoral for persons to be forced to take unproven COVID-19 experimental vaccinations…that may alter their own DNA.” - C.Leaders
"New York will continue to be barred from enforcing any requirement that employers deny religious exemptions. Additionally, the state cannot revoke exemptions already granted." - RNS
"Republican- and Democratic-led states alike already require hundreds of thousands of their citizens – infants, toddlers and schoolchildren, mostly – to be vaccinated against a panoply of diseases." - Pew
"A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state’s mandate disallowed religious exemptions." - C.Leaders/AP
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"Enyart is at least the fifth conservative talk-radio host to die from COVID-19. Previously, Marc Bernier, Phil Valentine, Jimmy DeYoung, and Dick Farrel succumbed after publicly opposing vaccines and/or public-health mitigation efforts." - C.Leaders
“While individual NRB members have wide-ranging views on the subject, the association has not weighed in on the question of the personal choices being made with respect to vaccines, because this is outside the scope of NRB’s public policy engagement" - CPost
Related: NRB Executive Committee investigates a recent staff dismissal (press release)
"Pastor Greg Fairrington, during an Aug. 1 sermon, told congregants of his church to 'do your job as Christians on Sept. 14 and vote yes on recalling an immoral governor.'" - C.Post
"Evangelical ethicists and legal scholars agree that many followers of Christ object to the COVID-19 vaccines, but they’re split on whether any of the objections commonly articulated among believers constitute religious objections. The distinction between religious liberty objections and more general objections could become a key issue as more businesses require employees to be vaccinated." - BPNews
