Posted on 11/26/2021 7:48:14 PM PST by george76
Golf reporter Teryn Gregson isn't going into the bunker after being fired by the Professional Golfers' Association of America.
She's continuing to charge that she was fired for not complying with what she called the organization's attempt to "punish" her for not being vaccinated, noting the whole affair has strengthened her faith.
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Gregson, who had worked for the PGA Tour for five years and is over four months pregnant, said the tour fired her Nov. 12 after she asked for a religious exemption for the coronavirus vaccine . She had COVID-19 over the summer, she added. While the tour insists it has no vaccine mandate, it stated that it imposes "additional health and safety protocols for those who choose to remain unvaccinated," which appears to have been its basis for firing Gregson.
"They can use whatever verbiage they want to, but when you say to someone, 'You have to do this, or else,' 'You have to get this, or we're punishing you,' 'You have to get this, or we're making you go through policies that nobody else has to go through' — that's a mandate," Gregson said.
The PGA told the Washington Examiner it does not demand that its employees get the coronavirus vaccine, but noted protocols around testing and masking for unvaccinated workers.
"The PGA Tour does not have a vaccine mandate for its employees," the PGA said in a statement. "In September and based upon guidance from medical and legal advisors, the PGA Tour established additional health and safety protocols for those who choose to remain unvaccinated. There have been numerous communications to employees about these specific health and safety protocols."
The organization, Gregson said, is "being vague."
"They're playing a word game with all of it," she said. "They're saying to us, 'If you don't get vaccinated, you have to do X, Y, and Z.'"
She invoked her Title VII right for a religious exemption, Gregson added, but to no avail.
"I told them that I needed to invoke my Title VII right for religious exemption from the vaccine and the testing. Those do not align with my beliefs, either, in regard to the vaccine mandates as a result of the vaccine," she said. "They kept replying that these are their policies regardless of my religious beliefs."
Gregson added, "I was employed by the PGA Tour itself, and this is coming down from their HR and their legal department."
However, Gregson said her firing hasn't diminished her faith. It actually made it stronger.
"I think it has strengthened my faith. In times of struggle, God really makes you rely more on Him and surrender more to Him," she said. "It's also allowed me to dig deeper into what the Bible says. That's been really great to dive deeper into what the word says. To be able to share that with other people has been fantastic."
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It's still important to be able to do that and talk to anyone that you can about the Bible and Jesus and God," she said. "This will help set precedent for people all over the country going through this."
Do you get tested weekly for the flu?
She’s naturally immune, which is superior to the stab.
The jab tries to replicate what natural immunity does and it fails.
This is unarguable.
That sounds right. She refused to accede to any of the “follow-on” indignities the PGA was trying to impose on her pursuant to PGA policy due to the final decision she had made to refuse to accept direct bodily insult via clot shot injection.
This was righteous defiance.
Oh, hey, we’re mandating that you go out of your way to do these things that are annoying, waste time (your time, you better not be clocking in for this!) , and for many places, you pick up the tab, not us. Also, we mandate you have to wear a sign of subjugation, and you can’t hang out with anyone in case you get too close and spread cooties.
But hey, if you haaaaappen to decide to get an experimental shot with unsure consequences, you don’t have to do any of the above.
You’re right, they actually aren’t mandating the shot!
Doesn’t firing a pregnant employee violate a law. I could be wrong but I remember Dem’s pushing for this?
Pretty sure she’s going to find another job real quick... She’s hired!
Well there is a whole chart of ethical alternatives:
https://cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/Abortion-Tainted-Vaccines.pdf
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And now we'be identified one opposed to Covid testing and masks.
As a matter of faith.
I am one who refuses to get “vaccinated” and my exemption was approved at my place of employment where they are demanding all employees get the jab. I was just commenting that she wasn’t required to get the shot to keep her job. (I will continue getting tested at my job which, to me, is no big deal. But....if I had to pay for it, then, yes, I would quit).
Ah mkay well lucky you! Lots of places finding ways to not approve exemptions.
But yea, the shots not exactly required to keep her job, but it almost is, and given the current political/work environment, someone in that position has almost no job security, never knowing when your employer might change their mind or the Dems might decide to try and force it again. And if your employer already forces it (minus exemptions), you know they won’t fight government to protect their employees.
STD’s, HIV, Hepatitus, Herpes, etc. Oh, wait that’s their health privacy.
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