Thank you! I’m a long time browser, but I’m not usually one to register and comment on a forum. But the anguish I’ve seen from those facing mandates and the general lack of understanding just how broad the scope of a religious exemption is have conspired to get me to join.
I will stand up when it’s my turn, whether as a stick or a bundle, and I want to help others make an informed choice for themselves.
Thanks again for the warm welcome.
Hubbie has a deadline next Wed for CLAIMING his exemption - religious exemption.
Should the employer then want him to be tested weekly (he is permanent remote), is that not then discrimination based upon his religion?
Has anyone gone this far?
Good to know. Since you have knowledge in this arena, it will be helpful for you to find religious exemption sources that turn us individual sticks into bundles.
In the meantime it might make sense to update your analogy because the stick —> bundle analogy has become poisoned when fascism took it as an emblem.
The original symbol of fascism in Italy under Benito Mussolini was the fasces. This is an ancient Imperial Roman symbol of power carried by lictors in front of magistrates; a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.
Fascist symbolism - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism#:~:text=The%20original%20symbol%20of%20fascism%20in%20Italy%20under%20Benito%20Mussolini,power%20over%20life%20and%20death.
I suggest using Ecclesiastes 4:12, the Bible tells us that “though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”