Posted on 08/20/2021 5:59:24 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Policies requiring vaccination against COVID-19 need not include, and should not include, exceptions for those who have religious objections to vaccinations.
Many universities, including the University of California, are requiring vaccination for all students, staff and faculty returning to campus. Many employers, public and private, are doing so as well. These policies are essential to protect public health. The virulent Delta variant of the coronavirus has made it imperative to ensure vaccination of as many people as possible.
Unfortunately, though, many of these policies have an exception for those who have a religious objection to vaccination. These are neither required by the law nor are they desirable as a matter of policy because they make it possible for anyone to circumvent the vaccine mandate.
The UC’s mandatory vaccination policy, for example, has an exception for those who object on religious grounds. It states that this is because the law requires such an exemption, declaring: “The University is required by law to offer reasonable accommodations to ... employees who object to vaccination based on their sincerely-held religious belief, practice, or observance.”
This is simply wrong as a matter of law. No law requires such a religious exemption.
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Laws that require vaccination are the epitome of a neutral law of general applicability: a requirement that applies to everyone and that was not motivated by a desire to interfere with religion. Even if this were not so, the government can infringe on religious freedom if its action is necessary to achieve a compelling interest.
Stopping the spread of a deadly communicable disease is obviously a compelling interest and vaccinations are the best way to reach that goal. No one, in practicing his or her religion, has a constitutional right to endanger others.
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Hewitt is an establishment mouthpiece.
I am going to use that line.
Irwin is always on the wrong side of law opinion yes he was part oh hughies smart guys segment
Sad state of laws schools when a clown like this is the dean. Deam Wormer has more competence and more concern for civil rights, even with double secret probation.
As of last week, 97% of the 11,000 students expected to live on the Storrs campus were already in compliance with the requirement. About 3% had opted for exemptions.
That's about 330 students.
For example, this guy, Erwin Chemerinsky. He grew up in Chicago and went to the U of C ‘laboratory’ school. If you are not a minority, being admitted to the U of C lab schools requires connections or pedigree. There's no way a kid from the south side whose parents were blue collar would be accepted into the lab school - unless they checked off some other ‘box’ (e.g. non-white, non-Christian).
I guarantee that his world view is skewed and so far off base of reality such that he is like an octopus in the jungle. I would wager a lot of money that every utterance out of his mouth, and everything he writes is predictable and cliche. I would further wager that I could predict with great accuracy all that he espouses. That's not because I am anything special. It's because he's not anything special - despite the pedigree.
Let me be clear: I know many Ivy League grads who are brilliant. I also know lots of people who didn't go to college who are brilliant. I also know lots of people who went to State colleges who are brilliant.
My experience is that, very broadly, the higher the pedigree, the less hard they work, and the more "blue collar" the harder they grind through the job.
There are exceptions to every rule. But this tool sounds like a leftist chatbot who ingested every broadcast from Air America before they failed.
The virulent Delta variant of the coronavirus has made it imperative to ensure vaccination of as many people as possible.
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This moron is obviously already vaccinated, but obviously doesn’t think the vaccine provides him sufficient protection from the virus. So he wants everyone vaccinated even though it won’t protect them from getting the virus.
The article misses the point.
The objection is to those vaccines that use abortion cell lines in any capacity.
I have no objections to vaccines in a general sense.
I have objections to vaccines that use murdered babies in any capacity.
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