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This is what I added to my paperwork:

ADDENDUM

I have researched the topic of Covid vaccines tirelessly over the past several weeks. As such, I want to add the following responses to the questions posed by the DD Form 3177. There are some things you need to know.

The questions on this form are legally invalid.

According to guidance received from Liberty Counsel:

Employees may have religious accommodation requests stating their sincerely held religious beliefs injecting any of the three currently available COVID-19 vaccines would be a sin and a violation of their religious beliefs because they are manufactured and produced with, tested on, or otherwise developmentally connected to aborted fetal cell lines.

Many employers have responded to employee submissions with intrusive and irrelevant questions about employees’ past personal health decisions and the theological bases for those decisions, or demands that employees vet their religious beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines with a third party to justify their accommodation requests.

The premises of these questions—that an employee’s current request for religious accommodation must be consistent with the employees’ prior health decisions and religious understandings, or must be acknowledged by a person other than the employee—are legally invalid premises for deciding religious accommodation requests, and any denial based on such premises violates Title VII.

In addition, according to guidance received from Liberty First Institute:

PAST VACCINATIONS DO NOT NEGATE A PRESENT OR FUTURE RIGHT TO DECLARE EXEMPTION. This is probably one of the most popular fallacies. Courts recognize that people can change and grow in their faith beliefs and understandings. Just because you got a vaccination in the past does not eliminate your right to assert a religious exemption now or in the future.

In closing, the Christian walk is one of constant, what is many times referred to as, sanctification. We learn and mature as we grow in Christ. What we may not realize to be evil or wrong early in the Christian walk, we discover to be evil or wrong later in that same Christian walk. Legal firms such as Liberty Counsel, Liberty First Legal and First Liberty Institute have put forth that the Courts recognize this concept.

For any entity to try and make a determination of a person’s spiritual maturity based their interpretation of answers to these questions, respectfully, is wrong in the eyes of the Courts, and cannot not be utilized in the framework of any inquiry by any entity, organization or governing body.