:: seek another religious accommodation ::
That is a stickler there and I will never seek an RA simply because by requesting one, you are allowing a violation of your 1st Amendment right to free exercise of your religion.
By what objective standard of [Constitutional] authority does one “judge” another’s religious belief?
If that standard is claimed by the government, they establish themselves as the Religion of all religions (arbiter).
Thereby establishing the government \itself\ as a religion (takes one to know one, right?).
Know, too, that even your church body cannot provide and objective standard for your religious belief.
Notice how fast “exemption” (not necessary in and of itself) faded from use into “accomodation”???
[Congress shall make no law respecting an ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION]
Aside from being a rock wall against messing with or forcing your beliefs that also means that they don’t have any taxing authority over them and the only thing declaring any sort of “tax exempt status” does to a church is create the situation where they enter into an agreement with the state.
The word “Establishment” is demonstrating a structure or group, like a drinking establishment.
The reason we (many of us anyway) chose the religious accommodation route was on the advice of a decent lawyer, who believed that this would give us significantly more leverage in future court cases, should the need arise. His approach was that we should utilize and exhaust all available means before heading to court, but that it would give our case more strength if we had done so.
He also mentioned, as your subsequent post noted, that it doesn’t require any specific church or scripture or a note from ones’ pastor - that you simply have to have strong personal beliefs.
As it turned out, at least in the case of the jab, the unjabbed are a very large group in our outfit and make up a good portion of the people that actually operate the power system and most plants. NRC frowns upon not having an adequate TRAINED AND QUALIFIED workforce on site to run a nuclear plant, and would certainly shut down if there were inadequate operating staff..
And, the 60% remaining would be woefully inadequate to fill all the shifts on each of the 24/7 operating desks that the rest of us presently occupy. Training will take time, and the 7 or 8 in the present training class are pretty much spoken for already.
The coming Supreme Court decision will not have a direct effect on our situation, since we are within the executive branch. But it will have an indirect effect. And if they rule in favor of tyranny, I think the whole country should go on strike. And I’m saying this as a non-Union kind of guy.