Religious Exemptions

Officers with the New York Police Department will be terminated from their jobs if they are not vaccinated by Feb. 11, the New York Daily News reported.

The Marine Corps has granted just two religious exemptions to the over 3,200 applicants appealing the military COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Texas judge blocks U.S. government from disciplining employees who failed to comply.

Departments of Justice, Health, Transportation, Treasury involved

The Supreme Court came to a decision on the two Biden administration vaccine mandates, striking down the requirement for large businesses and upholding the requirement for healthcare workers. 

An administrative agency in D.C. is found to be collecting the data of those who are taking a religious exemption to mandates for the coronavirus vaccine.

The military is required by law to examine religious accommodation requests on an individual basis.

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics or Jews—groups historically victimized by religious discrimination. Yet the court’s emerging leader in defending religious freedom is its only mainline Protestant.

As of the end of this week, the US Marine Corps has kicked out at least 169 Marines over their refusal to get the coronavirus vaccine by the mandated deadline. This after the past week alone has seen 66 additional Marines discharged on top of the initial service members booted.

A new survey coming from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) gives new insights as to the link between religion and the refusal to get vaccinated against COVID.