Air Force improperly prejudges requests for COVID vax mandate religious exemptions: source

Just The News ^ | February 5, 2022 - 10:49pm | Natalia Mittelstadt

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In reviewing requests for religious exemptions from the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command (AETC) is allegedly using a document that effectively denies all requests, in defiance of a legal standard affirmed in a recent federal court ruling.

AETC is the approval authority for religious accommodation requests (RARs) for military members assigned to the 13 AETC Air Force installations.

Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, as the AETC analysis document notes, "the government may not burden an individual's religion unless the requirement furthers a compelling government interest with the least restrictive means."

In reviewing service members' RARs for the COVID vaccine mandate, however, AETC is using a medical "least restrictive means" analysis tool that improperly reaches a blanket, one-size-fits-all predetermination that the vaccine is the least restrictive means by which the Air Force can achieve its compelling government interest, argues a source who obtained the document.

The Air Force defines it compelling government interest as "mission accomplishment," an interest that "includes military readiness, unit cohesion, good order and discipline, and health and safety for both the member and the unit."

[dadfly]

boy this article is about as clear as mud, but if i read it right, the law itself and the military application of it (in which the law which can be twisted into anything the military wants) are complete bs, imo.

and i’d never submit to any of this, and i’d never enlist as a Christian under any of these circumstances, without a detailed, specific bill of religious rights if i were to serve. sad to say this being a military brat myself, but if you’re a young Christian, i’d stay away from this military until this is all fixed.

[Sequoyah101]

Christian or not I’d advise to stay away from this military and get out at the first opportunity you have if you are in. It is corrupt to the point of dangerous for honest and decent people. They don’t want you. They don’t want anyone who will stand up to their criminal activities.

The flag ranks are polluted and the successors they have designated are friends of a feather to them. The only way it may be fixed is a general purge.

[dadfly]

i sense in the Spirit that God won’t allow this level of injustice and rebellion to go on for much longer. there will soon be a reckoning.

i pray that enough of the reckless individuals now in power become convinced to put themselves back under God’s authority soon. Father, Your will be done in the Name of the Son, Amen.