Posted on 10/29/2021 6:49:36 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that prevents both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs from being terminated after they sued the Biden administration over religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines.
"None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending," District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered, according to a Minute Order obtained by Fox News.
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“ The judge also ruled that “active duty military plaintiffs, whose religious exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during the pendency of their appeals.”
Same here. If you care about your employees (I hope you do), do not accept their letters at this time other than “When official guidance comes out, I am informing you that I plan to file for a religious/medical exaemption”. Leave it at tha.
You should advise them to do nothing and say nothing until full guidance is released. DoD leadership is going to aggressively deny exemptions and every word they write will be used against them. Keep it short and to the point, not one word that isn’t asked for, and don’t fall for their traps.
Yea I think you are right. Perhaps more military will join.
It’s a bit more complicated. I have personnel who are trying to protect their retirement. So, they are submitting retirement and religious accommodation requests. If they are accommodated, they will pull their retirement papers.
“This needs to be fast tracked to the Supreme Court. NOW”
They’ll support Biden. We already know how they roll.
Pray that the dominoes keep falling against the Biden regime.
Talk about a Debbie Downer! Geez, at least rejoice that a respite has been granted.
God created man. Man produces CO2 when breathing. When the “scientists” classified CO2 as a pollutant I knew it was a farce.
The models scientists use to study global warming are not complex enough to understand God’s creation. For example they excludes the impact of water vapor levels.
God did not create a man who pollutes by breathing. Global warming is absurd on it’s face.
Same thing at the military installation I work at. They had a meeting today and basically, they still have no guidance! But at least this ruling may give us a respite.
At Auburn University in Alabama the religious exemption applications are judged by the EEO/AA bureaucrats. You just know that with the wisdom of Solomon those wise ladies and guys will give the benefit of the doubt to the applicants ... or not.
The mandate is DOA. Biden already blinked. We just need to keep up the pressure. Companies are already having second thoughts. They see that if these rulings go badly for Biden they will be open to large lawsuits for illegal firings. My son applied for a religious exemption last week and it was already approved. He works for a military contractor. It will take a while, but it’s DOA.
Hope you’re right. I just don’t trust the courts in the long term.
Yes. I do know “ a number” of defense contractors here in Socal. Some of them are even my frat univ brothers. They got theirs rather quickly. Told me by connecting the dots, the defense company told them (deep state) to protect their kids aka workers.
I sat thru a 30 minute discussion this week on mandates and exemptions for Feds. I feel dumber for having participated and we left with more whey than we started.
“ God created man.”
The first problem we have is that those behind “climate science” and the global warming farce dont believe in God and so don’t believe that God created man. I suspect most of them will to to the grave thinking that. However, at the judgment they might begin to question themselves…
My initial reaction is to not offer even when asked other than to more-or-less say:
I will accept your offer of exception to the Covid Vaccine on the grounds of sincerely held religious belief and in accordance with my sincerely held religious belief my position is that I will not take the Covid-19 vaccine. End of story, stick to it.
Other than that, name, rank and serial number.
Refuse, Resist, Solidarity. Over and over and over again. Don’t let up a second. Stand your ground There is too much to lose to give in.
More likely, watch what happens to the religious exemption request.
-PJ
Great for your son! I applied for a religious exemption too.
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