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I’d like to use this thread for any information that helps to successfully file for a religious exemption.
I know there are some here that don’t agree that they should be used. Debate it on another thread.
To start, here’s a series of posts from Facebook that looks useful.
From Harry Mihet, Liberty Council VP of Legal Affairs.
Part 1/3
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 1 - THE INTRODUCTION
"Your job or your conscience. Your education or your convictions."
Your employer or school has given you an unconscionable "choice" that no free American should ever be forced to make. Keep your job or education, or accept an abortion-derived vaccine that profoundly violates your God-given conscience and your deep religious convictions.
DO NOT DESPAIR. DO NOT GIVE UP. DO NOT QUIT. DO NOT COMPROMISE.
Vaccine mandates do not catch God by surprise. He knew they were coming. He is on the throne and in control. The same God that gave you the conscience to refuse vaccines made from or with fetal cell lines from aborted children WILL make a way for you to maintain your conscience clear before Him.
It won't necessarily be easy. It may be hard. Really hard. But He WILL make a way, even where there seems to be no way.
The GOOD NEWS is that the Constitution and the Law are still on your side. We are seeing an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of religious exemption requests granted for those who make proper requests. THERE IS HOPE!
The BAD NEWS is that my inbox has exploded, and my phone rings every other minute. I cannot possibly continue to answer individual questions about the exemption process PRIOR to a denial.
So, instead, I will publish a series of articles starting on Monday, every morning of next week, designed to teach you how to make a proper and strong religious exemption request that will put you in the strongest possible legal position.
I will share the proof that all three vaccines have their genesis in abortion. I will provide sample language and legal memos that you can use to model your own religious exemption requests (which are already on #LibertyCounsel 's website). I will help you rebut arguments that your employers might make to throw you off.
I will try to do this in plain English. You won't need a college degree to follow along, or to implement these directions.
So, if you're faced with an unconscionable mandate to violate your conscience in order to keep your job or your education, here is your 6-point action plan:
1. Trust God, Pray, and Do Not Despair.
2. Do not quit your job or leave your school. Stand your ground.
3. Wait a week or so to turn in your religious exemption request (unless your employer or school is imposing an earlier deadline).
4. Watch this page for a daily article on religious exemptions, starting on Monday morning.
5. Use the information you learn to submit a strong religious exemption request to your employer or school.
6. If you do all the above and you are part of the minority whose religious exemption request is DENIED, then call #LibertyCounsel. We will do our best to help as many as we can.
YOU CAN DO THIS. GOD is with you. Trust in Him. He will see you through!
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 2 - THE LAW PROTECTS YOUR CONSCIENCE.
Although there are some exceptions, generally speaking employers and schools are prohibited by federal and state laws from discriminating against employees or students on the basis of religion. This means that employers and schools are generally legally obligated to provide reasonable accommodations for employees and students whose sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit them from complying with a rule or directive, unless the employer or school cannot provide any such accommodation without undue burden.
Employers and schools are already providing reasonable accommodations for employees and students with MEDICAL exemptions, such as allowing them to continue to implement the same safety precautions that were argued to be effective before vaccines were available (social distancing, masking indoors, testing, self-certification of symptoms, etc.).
Thus, employers and schools will be hard pressed to say that they cannot also accommodate those with sincere religious beliefs against abortion-derived vaccines. They MUST consider religious exemption requests, and grant them when properly made.
Granting MEDICAL exemptions but not RELIGIOUS exemptions amounts to illegal religious discrimination against employees or students.
FOUR KEY POINTS about religious beliefs that are entitled to legal protection:
1) Your religious beliefs must be SINCERE. This means you actually believe what you claim to believe. You're not making it up just to avoid a rule or directive (in this case, the vaccine). The information I am providing in this series is intended only for those with SINCERE religious beliefs that God prohibits them from taking covid vaccines (because they originate in abortion, or for some other reason).
2) Your religious beliefs do *NOT* have to be "reasonable," or "correct," or "valid," or "proper," or "acceptable," or "good," or ANYTHING ELSE other than SINCERE. No government, and no employer or school, has the right to tell you what you "SHOULD" believe, or that what you believe is not "OK." Once you have demonstrated that your religious belief is SINCERE (that you're not making it up), your employer or school cannot deny you a religious exemption because they don't like or agree with YOUR belief.
3) Your religious beliefs do *NOT* have to be "popular." You are entitled to an exemption even if you are the last and only person on Earth that believes that abortion-derived vaccines are against God's law against murder. Incidentally, there are many, many people who believe like you. But legally, that does not matter. You have the right to your own, personal, individual, God-given conscience.
4) Finally, and related to point #3, your religious beliefs do *NOT* have to be part of the doctrine or tenets of "an established religion," whatever that is. THERE IS ROOM FOR REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT AMONG CHRISTIANS (and other faiths) on the moral and religious acceptability of covid vaccines. You can be part of a church where reasonable Christians disagree on the topic of abortion-derived vaccines, and where the Church itself has not taken a position, or worse, has approved of such vaccines. Legally, that does not matter. As indicated in point #3, you have the right to your own, personal, individual, God-given conscience.
(For this reason, this series of posts is NOT intended to stir debate among people of faith, but only to help those with sincere religious convictions against abortion-derived vaccines).
I will devote an entire post this week to the issue of clergy support letters. But for now, know that you cannot be lawfully denied an exemption because you don't have a letter from a pastor or church "approving" of YOUR beliefs.
It would be impossible to cover all of the various issues and nuances of the law on religious exemptions, but the basics are above.
The bottom line is that you are NOT a legal orphan. The law in the United States of America STILL protects your right to a clean conscience. (PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.)
***Future daily posts in this Religious Exemption Series this week will discuss:
-- The PROCESS for requesting religious exemptions;
-- The PROOF you can use to show your employer or school that all three covid-19 vaccines have their genesis in abortion;
-- The THEOLOGY you can use to support your religious convictions against abortion-derived vaccines;
-- The PERSONAL STATEMENT you will need to write to request an exemption (with sample language);
-- The CLERGY verification that is NOT legally required but MAY be beneficial, if available to you;
-- The REBUTTALS to employer/school questions and arguments;
-- and possibly more.
If your religious exemption deadline permits, be sure to wait to submit your religious exemption request until you have the benefit of the entire series, which I hope to complete by next Monday, August 16 (or thereabouts).
Do not lose hope! God will make a way for you to maintain your conscience clean.
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 3 - THE PROCESS IS PERSONAL.
[This article is part of a daily, weeklong series. You may want to start at the beginning, with PART 1, and follow along until the series is complete, on or about August 16).
To make a proper and strong request for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine, you MUST follow the procedure established by YOUR employer or school. There is NOT a universal "form" or "exemption paper" or request that #LibertyCounsel or anyone else can give you or make for you. (I get asked for this ALL. THE. TIME.)
We can provide information, samples and ideas to assist you, but you will need to determine what procedure your employer or school has, and comply with it.
Because religious beliefs are PERSONAL (see yesterday's PART 2), the process for requesting an exemption must also be PERSONAL.
Whatever you do, ***DO NOT SIMPLY COPY AND PASTE*** anything that I will share here, or that you get from Liberty Counsel, from a colleague, or from the Internet. If you turn in exactly the same (or just about the same) request that another person did, or that can be found on a Google search, your request WILL be denied as INSINCERE (see yesterday's PART 2).
Instead, use the information you learn here, and the samples that Liberty Counsel has (that I will provide in this series), ONLY AS A GUIDE, to help you put YOUR OWN REQUEST IN YOUR OWN WORDS. This is probably one of the most important pieces of advice that I can give you. If you don't follow this advice, you probably are wasting your time.
So here are the FIVE STEPS you can take in the PERSONAL religious exemption process:
STEP 1: Do you ACTUALLY need an exemption?
--> If your employer or school is only "thinking about" or "talking about" mandating the vaccine, there is no need to request a "pre-emptive exemption" before you are actually required to vaccinate. (I made that up - there is no such thing.)
--> If your employer or school is already providing an automatic alternative to vaccination (such as weekly testing), then you do not need an exemption. The religious exemption would only exempt you from the vaccine, NOT from the alternative, so don't bother with an exemption. Take the alternative, for now, even if it is annoying. For testing, employers should be paying for it, or it should be covered by insurance, so there should not be an out of pocket cost to you.
STEP 2: Get the procedure or form that your employer or school is using for religious exemptions.
--> Often, this will be distributed with the vaccine mandate. Or, it may be on the employer's or school's website. Search for it.
--> If you cannot find your employer's or school's form or procedure on your own, call the HR department or the school and ask them for it. This is NOT your actual religious exemption request. This is your request for the PROCEDURE or FORM that you are expected to use to make your religious exemption request.
--> Hopefully, the efforts above will lead to you having a form to fill out, or the name of a person to email, to present your religious exemption request.
--> If your employer or school tells you that "we don't have religious exemptions," or "there is no form or procedure for that" or something along those lines, they may be violating the law (see PART 1). Get this from them in writing.
--> If they won't put it in writing, send them a letter or email, to confirm what they told you. (For example: "Dear ______, I am confirming that on ________, I requested the company's form or procedure for requesting a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine requirement, and you indicated that no such form or procedure exists, and no exemptions are available. If I misunderstood you in any way, please let me know immediately.")
Then, contact Liberty Counsel.
STEP 3: Once you have your school's or employer's form or procedure for requesting a religious exemption, study it carefully and make sure that you comply with it FULLY, COMPLETELY and TIMELY. Do NOT ignore parts of it. Do NOT miss the deadline. This may give your employer a legal way to deny your exemption request.
--> the most important part of this form or process will be your PERSONAL statement, where you tell your school or employer IN YOUR OWN WORDS why your sincere religious convictions prohibit you from taking abortion-derived vaccines. We will cover this separately, with examples, later this week.
STEP 4: Turn in your form and all necessary documentation to your employer or school.
--> RETAIN COPIES of everything you submit, as well as proof that you submitted it (and when you submitted it).
--> If two weeks pass and you don't hear anything, politely ask for the status of your request.
STEP 5: If your request is APPROVED, rejoice and Praise the Lord!
If your request is DENIED, contact Liberty Counsel and send us: (a) your employer's or school's vaccination mandate; (b) your request for a religious exemption; (c) the denial you received; and (d) any other relevant documents. We will review your case individually and determine if further legal action is possible or appropriate.
*** Stay tuned to this daily series all week long for more information on how to successfully navigate the religious exemption process. PART 4, tomorrow, will cover the PROOF that all three COVID vaccines have their genesis in abortion.
God bless you, as you seek to honor Him!
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 4 – THE PROOF IS IN THE ORIGIN
[This article is part of a daily, weeklong series. You may want to start at the beginning, with PART 1, and follow along until the series is complete, on or about August 16.]
The facts are indisputable: Each of the three covid vaccines was either DEVELOPED from, or TESTED on, fetal cell lines from aborted babies. (NOTE, I did *NOT* say “CONTAINS fetal cells,” and neither should you – more on this later.)
These are direct quotes from government publications:
“Johnson & Johnson did require the use of fetal cell cultures, specifically PER.C6, in order to produce and manufacture the vaccine.”
For the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, “Early in the development of mRNA vaccine technology, fetal cells were used for ‘proof of concept’ (to demonstrate how a cell could take up mRNA and produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein) or to characterize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. … A cell line was used to test the efficacy of both vaccines.”
You will find these quotes in documents from many government bodies, including:
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/me...vaccine/VaccineDevelopment_FetalCellLines.pdf
The North Dakota Department of Health
The Louisiana Department of Health
Here are FOUR important considerations about the covid vaccines' origin in abortion:
1) The vaccines do *NOT* CONTAIN aborted fetal cells. Do not say to your employer or school that they do, because they will say your religious objection is based on "misinformation" and deny it. Instead, the vaccines were DEVELOPED from, or TESTED with, fetal cell lines from aborted babies. There is a difference. Be sure you understand it.
2) Just because the vaccines do not "CONTAIN" parts of murdered babies does *NOT* mean that you cannot object to them on religious grounds. Many people of faith believe that they cannot ingest or benefit from any product that has ANY connection to abortion. TESTING and DEVELOPING a product using cells from murdered babies can be just as objectionable as if the product CONTAINED the cells of those babies.
3) Do not be alarmed when you read in the government publications linked above that pope so and so, and bishop such and such, and this church or that church have concluded that these vaccines are "morally acceptable," either because they don't "CONTAIN" parts of dead babies, or because the abortions from which the fetal cell lines were taken took place "a long time ago," or because the vaccines can now be used for greater common good even though they originated with an evil act.
REMEMBER:
--> religious beliefs are PERSONAL. No government, bishop, pope, employer or school has to right to tell YOU how you should interpret Scripture, and what YOU should believe (See PART 2);
--> there is no statute of limitations (or expiration date) on murder; if the fetal cell lines come from murdered babies (and they unquestionably do), then you are allowed to find them objectionable whether those murders took place yesterday, last year, or 40 years ago.
--> it is indisputable that all 3 vaccines have their origin in abortion. Without the murder of the babies from which these fetal cell lines have been obtained, none of the 3 covid vaccines would be here today. If *YOU* *SINCERELY* believe as a matter or religious conviction that this is wrong, and that taking these vaccines would make you complicit in the abortions, then YOU are entitled to a religious exemption no matter what others may believe.
4) Do not worry if you have previously taken the flu shot or other vaccines. That does *NOT* disqualify you from a religious exemption to the COVID vaccines.
--> the flu shot does NOT have a connection to abortion; it is NOT DEVELOPED or TESTED using fetal cell lines from aborted babies.
--> many other vaccines do NOT have a connection to abortion
--> while you may have previously had a vaccine that is connected to abortion, it may have been in your childhood, when you didn't have the same religious convictions, or when you didn't have a say-so
--> many employer or school religious exemption forms ask whether you object to ALL vaccines or just to covid vaccines. A good response is (REMEMBER, PUT IN YOUR OWN WORDS - DO NOT CUT AND PASTE):
"I am opposed to all vaccines that have a connection to abortion, no matter how remote or close that connection may be. I would not accept any medical product or vaccine if I knew that it was developed or tested with cells from aborted babies."
*** Tomorrow's post will focus on the THEOLOGY regarding abortion, and products derived from abortion. Then, later this week, we'll look at how to put all of this together in your own personal statement for the religious exemption form.
Stay tuned. And stay hopeful!
I know there are some here that don’t agree that they should be used. Debate it on another thread.
To start, here’s a series of posts from Facebook that looks useful.
From Harry Mihet, Liberty Council VP of Legal Affairs.
Part 1/3
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 1 - THE INTRODUCTION
"Your job or your conscience. Your education or your convictions."
Your employer or school has given you an unconscionable "choice" that no free American should ever be forced to make. Keep your job or education, or accept an abortion-derived vaccine that profoundly violates your God-given conscience and your deep religious convictions.
DO NOT DESPAIR. DO NOT GIVE UP. DO NOT QUIT. DO NOT COMPROMISE.
Vaccine mandates do not catch God by surprise. He knew they were coming. He is on the throne and in control. The same God that gave you the conscience to refuse vaccines made from or with fetal cell lines from aborted children WILL make a way for you to maintain your conscience clear before Him.
It won't necessarily be easy. It may be hard. Really hard. But He WILL make a way, even where there seems to be no way.
The GOOD NEWS is that the Constitution and the Law are still on your side. We are seeing an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of religious exemption requests granted for those who make proper requests. THERE IS HOPE!
The BAD NEWS is that my inbox has exploded, and my phone rings every other minute. I cannot possibly continue to answer individual questions about the exemption process PRIOR to a denial.
So, instead, I will publish a series of articles starting on Monday, every morning of next week, designed to teach you how to make a proper and strong religious exemption request that will put you in the strongest possible legal position.
I will share the proof that all three vaccines have their genesis in abortion. I will provide sample language and legal memos that you can use to model your own religious exemption requests (which are already on #LibertyCounsel 's website). I will help you rebut arguments that your employers might make to throw you off.
I will try to do this in plain English. You won't need a college degree to follow along, or to implement these directions.
So, if you're faced with an unconscionable mandate to violate your conscience in order to keep your job or your education, here is your 6-point action plan:
1. Trust God, Pray, and Do Not Despair.
2. Do not quit your job or leave your school. Stand your ground.
3. Wait a week or so to turn in your religious exemption request (unless your employer or school is imposing an earlier deadline).
4. Watch this page for a daily article on religious exemptions, starting on Monday morning.
5. Use the information you learn to submit a strong religious exemption request to your employer or school.
6. If you do all the above and you are part of the minority whose religious exemption request is DENIED, then call #LibertyCounsel. We will do our best to help as many as we can.
YOU CAN DO THIS. GOD is with you. Trust in Him. He will see you through!
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 2 - THE LAW PROTECTS YOUR CONSCIENCE.
Although there are some exceptions, generally speaking employers and schools are prohibited by federal and state laws from discriminating against employees or students on the basis of religion. This means that employers and schools are generally legally obligated to provide reasonable accommodations for employees and students whose sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit them from complying with a rule or directive, unless the employer or school cannot provide any such accommodation without undue burden.
Employers and schools are already providing reasonable accommodations for employees and students with MEDICAL exemptions, such as allowing them to continue to implement the same safety precautions that were argued to be effective before vaccines were available (social distancing, masking indoors, testing, self-certification of symptoms, etc.).
Thus, employers and schools will be hard pressed to say that they cannot also accommodate those with sincere religious beliefs against abortion-derived vaccines. They MUST consider religious exemption requests, and grant them when properly made.
Granting MEDICAL exemptions but not RELIGIOUS exemptions amounts to illegal religious discrimination against employees or students.
FOUR KEY POINTS about religious beliefs that are entitled to legal protection:
1) Your religious beliefs must be SINCERE. This means you actually believe what you claim to believe. You're not making it up just to avoid a rule or directive (in this case, the vaccine). The information I am providing in this series is intended only for those with SINCERE religious beliefs that God prohibits them from taking covid vaccines (because they originate in abortion, or for some other reason).
2) Your religious beliefs do *NOT* have to be "reasonable," or "correct," or "valid," or "proper," or "acceptable," or "good," or ANYTHING ELSE other than SINCERE. No government, and no employer or school, has the right to tell you what you "SHOULD" believe, or that what you believe is not "OK." Once you have demonstrated that your religious belief is SINCERE (that you're not making it up), your employer or school cannot deny you a religious exemption because they don't like or agree with YOUR belief.
3) Your religious beliefs do *NOT* have to be "popular." You are entitled to an exemption even if you are the last and only person on Earth that believes that abortion-derived vaccines are against God's law against murder. Incidentally, there are many, many people who believe like you. But legally, that does not matter. You have the right to your own, personal, individual, God-given conscience.
4) Finally, and related to point #3, your religious beliefs do *NOT* have to be part of the doctrine or tenets of "an established religion," whatever that is. THERE IS ROOM FOR REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT AMONG CHRISTIANS (and other faiths) on the moral and religious acceptability of covid vaccines. You can be part of a church where reasonable Christians disagree on the topic of abortion-derived vaccines, and where the Church itself has not taken a position, or worse, has approved of such vaccines. Legally, that does not matter. As indicated in point #3, you have the right to your own, personal, individual, God-given conscience.
(For this reason, this series of posts is NOT intended to stir debate among people of faith, but only to help those with sincere religious convictions against abortion-derived vaccines).
I will devote an entire post this week to the issue of clergy support letters. But for now, know that you cannot be lawfully denied an exemption because you don't have a letter from a pastor or church "approving" of YOUR beliefs.
It would be impossible to cover all of the various issues and nuances of the law on religious exemptions, but the basics are above.
The bottom line is that you are NOT a legal orphan. The law in the United States of America STILL protects your right to a clean conscience. (PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.)
***Future daily posts in this Religious Exemption Series this week will discuss:
-- The PROCESS for requesting religious exemptions;
-- The PROOF you can use to show your employer or school that all three covid-19 vaccines have their genesis in abortion;
-- The THEOLOGY you can use to support your religious convictions against abortion-derived vaccines;
-- The PERSONAL STATEMENT you will need to write to request an exemption (with sample language);
-- The CLERGY verification that is NOT legally required but MAY be beneficial, if available to you;
-- The REBUTTALS to employer/school questions and arguments;
-- and possibly more.
If your religious exemption deadline permits, be sure to wait to submit your religious exemption request until you have the benefit of the entire series, which I hope to complete by next Monday, August 16 (or thereabouts).
Do not lose hope! God will make a way for you to maintain your conscience clean.
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 3 - THE PROCESS IS PERSONAL.
[This article is part of a daily, weeklong series. You may want to start at the beginning, with PART 1, and follow along until the series is complete, on or about August 16).
To make a proper and strong request for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine, you MUST follow the procedure established by YOUR employer or school. There is NOT a universal "form" or "exemption paper" or request that #LibertyCounsel or anyone else can give you or make for you. (I get asked for this ALL. THE. TIME.)
We can provide information, samples and ideas to assist you, but you will need to determine what procedure your employer or school has, and comply with it.
Because religious beliefs are PERSONAL (see yesterday's PART 2), the process for requesting an exemption must also be PERSONAL.
Whatever you do, ***DO NOT SIMPLY COPY AND PASTE*** anything that I will share here, or that you get from Liberty Counsel, from a colleague, or from the Internet. If you turn in exactly the same (or just about the same) request that another person did, or that can be found on a Google search, your request WILL be denied as INSINCERE (see yesterday's PART 2).
Instead, use the information you learn here, and the samples that Liberty Counsel has (that I will provide in this series), ONLY AS A GUIDE, to help you put YOUR OWN REQUEST IN YOUR OWN WORDS. This is probably one of the most important pieces of advice that I can give you. If you don't follow this advice, you probably are wasting your time.
So here are the FIVE STEPS you can take in the PERSONAL religious exemption process:
STEP 1: Do you ACTUALLY need an exemption?
--> If your employer or school is only "thinking about" or "talking about" mandating the vaccine, there is no need to request a "pre-emptive exemption" before you are actually required to vaccinate. (I made that up - there is no such thing.)
--> If your employer or school is already providing an automatic alternative to vaccination (such as weekly testing), then you do not need an exemption. The religious exemption would only exempt you from the vaccine, NOT from the alternative, so don't bother with an exemption. Take the alternative, for now, even if it is annoying. For testing, employers should be paying for it, or it should be covered by insurance, so there should not be an out of pocket cost to you.
STEP 2: Get the procedure or form that your employer or school is using for religious exemptions.
--> Often, this will be distributed with the vaccine mandate. Or, it may be on the employer's or school's website. Search for it.
--> If you cannot find your employer's or school's form or procedure on your own, call the HR department or the school and ask them for it. This is NOT your actual religious exemption request. This is your request for the PROCEDURE or FORM that you are expected to use to make your religious exemption request.
--> Hopefully, the efforts above will lead to you having a form to fill out, or the name of a person to email, to present your religious exemption request.
--> If your employer or school tells you that "we don't have religious exemptions," or "there is no form or procedure for that" or something along those lines, they may be violating the law (see PART 1). Get this from them in writing.
--> If they won't put it in writing, send them a letter or email, to confirm what they told you. (For example: "Dear ______, I am confirming that on ________, I requested the company's form or procedure for requesting a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine requirement, and you indicated that no such form or procedure exists, and no exemptions are available. If I misunderstood you in any way, please let me know immediately.")
Then, contact Liberty Counsel.
STEP 3: Once you have your school's or employer's form or procedure for requesting a religious exemption, study it carefully and make sure that you comply with it FULLY, COMPLETELY and TIMELY. Do NOT ignore parts of it. Do NOT miss the deadline. This may give your employer a legal way to deny your exemption request.
--> the most important part of this form or process will be your PERSONAL statement, where you tell your school or employer IN YOUR OWN WORDS why your sincere religious convictions prohibit you from taking abortion-derived vaccines. We will cover this separately, with examples, later this week.
STEP 4: Turn in your form and all necessary documentation to your employer or school.
--> RETAIN COPIES of everything you submit, as well as proof that you submitted it (and when you submitted it).
--> If two weeks pass and you don't hear anything, politely ask for the status of your request.
STEP 5: If your request is APPROVED, rejoice and Praise the Lord!
If your request is DENIED, contact Liberty Counsel and send us: (a) your employer's or school's vaccination mandate; (b) your request for a religious exemption; (c) the denial you received; and (d) any other relevant documents. We will review your case individually and determine if further legal action is possible or appropriate.
*** Stay tuned to this daily series all week long for more information on how to successfully navigate the religious exemption process. PART 4, tomorrow, will cover the PROOF that all three COVID vaccines have their genesis in abortion.
God bless you, as you seek to honor Him!
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS SERIES: PART 4 – THE PROOF IS IN THE ORIGIN
[This article is part of a daily, weeklong series. You may want to start at the beginning, with PART 1, and follow along until the series is complete, on or about August 16.]
The facts are indisputable: Each of the three covid vaccines was either DEVELOPED from, or TESTED on, fetal cell lines from aborted babies. (NOTE, I did *NOT* say “CONTAINS fetal cells,” and neither should you – more on this later.)
These are direct quotes from government publications:
“Johnson & Johnson did require the use of fetal cell cultures, specifically PER.C6, in order to produce and manufacture the vaccine.”
For the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, “Early in the development of mRNA vaccine technology, fetal cells were used for ‘proof of concept’ (to demonstrate how a cell could take up mRNA and produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein) or to characterize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. … A cell line was used to test the efficacy of both vaccines.”
You will find these quotes in documents from many government bodies, including:
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/me...vaccine/VaccineDevelopment_FetalCellLines.pdf
The North Dakota Department of Health
The Louisiana Department of Health
Here are FOUR important considerations about the covid vaccines' origin in abortion:
1) The vaccines do *NOT* CONTAIN aborted fetal cells. Do not say to your employer or school that they do, because they will say your religious objection is based on "misinformation" and deny it. Instead, the vaccines were DEVELOPED from, or TESTED with, fetal cell lines from aborted babies. There is a difference. Be sure you understand it.
2) Just because the vaccines do not "CONTAIN" parts of murdered babies does *NOT* mean that you cannot object to them on religious grounds. Many people of faith believe that they cannot ingest or benefit from any product that has ANY connection to abortion. TESTING and DEVELOPING a product using cells from murdered babies can be just as objectionable as if the product CONTAINED the cells of those babies.
3) Do not be alarmed when you read in the government publications linked above that pope so and so, and bishop such and such, and this church or that church have concluded that these vaccines are "morally acceptable," either because they don't "CONTAIN" parts of dead babies, or because the abortions from which the fetal cell lines were taken took place "a long time ago," or because the vaccines can now be used for greater common good even though they originated with an evil act.
REMEMBER:
--> religious beliefs are PERSONAL. No government, bishop, pope, employer or school has to right to tell YOU how you should interpret Scripture, and what YOU should believe (See PART 2);
--> there is no statute of limitations (or expiration date) on murder; if the fetal cell lines come from murdered babies (and they unquestionably do), then you are allowed to find them objectionable whether those murders took place yesterday, last year, or 40 years ago.
--> it is indisputable that all 3 vaccines have their origin in abortion. Without the murder of the babies from which these fetal cell lines have been obtained, none of the 3 covid vaccines would be here today. If *YOU* *SINCERELY* believe as a matter or religious conviction that this is wrong, and that taking these vaccines would make you complicit in the abortions, then YOU are entitled to a religious exemption no matter what others may believe.
4) Do not worry if you have previously taken the flu shot or other vaccines. That does *NOT* disqualify you from a religious exemption to the COVID vaccines.
--> the flu shot does NOT have a connection to abortion; it is NOT DEVELOPED or TESTED using fetal cell lines from aborted babies.
--> many other vaccines do NOT have a connection to abortion
--> while you may have previously had a vaccine that is connected to abortion, it may have been in your childhood, when you didn't have the same religious convictions, or when you didn't have a say-so
--> many employer or school religious exemption forms ask whether you object to ALL vaccines or just to covid vaccines. A good response is (REMEMBER, PUT IN YOUR OWN WORDS - DO NOT CUT AND PASTE):
"I am opposed to all vaccines that have a connection to abortion, no matter how remote or close that connection may be. I would not accept any medical product or vaccine if I knew that it was developed or tested with cells from aborted babies."
*** Tomorrow's post will focus on the THEOLOGY regarding abortion, and products derived from abortion. Then, later this week, we'll look at how to put all of this together in your own personal statement for the religious exemption form.
Stay tuned. And stay hopeful!