Posted on 11/08/2021 7:05:23 PM PST by marshmallow
COMMENTARY: Given the court’s previous track record in defending religious freedom, we can at least hope that its Oct. 29 ruling isn’t the end of the story.
The U.S. Supreme Court — normally sympathetic to people of faith — has uncharacteristically fallen short of its obligation to protect religious freedom. On Friday evening, a surprising six-justice majority declined a request to block a Maine rule that requires certain health-care employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 without any provision for religious exemptions.
This past summer, Maine’s Democrat governor, Janet Mills, announced that the state would require certain health-care workers to be vaccinated against the virus by Oct. 1. Her spokesmen are quick to note that the state “has long required the immunization of employees” at health-care facilities in an effort to prevent the spread of “dangerous or easily transmissible contagions.” In September 2019, the Maine Legislature eliminated religious exemptions to vaccination requirements for health-care workers and mandated “the removal of religious exemptions from all Department vaccination requirements.” Interestingly, medical exceptions to the COVID-vaccine requirement are allowed. Mills’ office announced that it would begin enforcing the order on Oct. 29.
A large group who opposed the mandate on religious grounds — numbering some 2,000 health-care workers — collectively filed a lawsuit. They believe that receiving the vaccines violates their faith because of what they think is an impermissible connection to cell lines from aborted children.
These objecting workers argued that the mandate “completely removes any protections for Plaintiffs’ sincerely held religious beliefs” and “subjects them to especially harsh treatment” in violation of the First Amendment and Title VII, the federal employment law prohibiting discrimination based on, among other things, religion.
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It’s a political issue best served by voting these scum out of office or voting with your feet. It’s a states rights issue, not a national issue.
It’s a political issue best served by voting these scum out of office or voting with your feet. It’s a states rights issue, not a national issue.
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This particular “States Rights” issue died with the 14th Amendment. The Free Exercise Clause has been within the domain of the Federal Judiciary to interpret regardless of whether government violates it at the local, state, or federal level.
I mean, hell, they determined that no state has the “right” to deny same-sex marriage...and that’s not even close to being explicitly protected by the Bill of Rights.
There are junctures and this is looking like one of them, where the people overrule all courts and legislatures and decrees. It needs to be done periodically to remind everyone who is servant and who is master. Now is an excellent opportunity.
Amy Phony Barrett strikes again!
These court cases are guaranteed to fail and perhaps they are being brought before the Supreme Court for just that purpose. The highest court cannot overrule the declaration of a public health emergency and mandated vaccine or medicine purportedly to protect the public. The case that will win and thwart the mandate is a case where the government has to prove that there is a real emergency and real virus and where the vaccine is not a greater danger. That case has been filed by Pam Popper and her Make Americans Free Again organization. Please give it your support.
In 1905, the Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that state laws requiring vaccines do not violate the 14th Amendment, according to the Constitution Center. The court in 1922 upheld the ruling in Zucht v. King, a case about school districts mandating vaccines for school children, per the Constitution Center.
Well ….. don’t ya know that the definition of vaccine changed? So that case law is not applicable to the clot-shots.
They also ruled it was perfectly ok to sterilize infants and rape victims. And carve up the brains of people they deemed "defective".
The SCOTUS in the early 20th century believed in eugenics and that children were the property of the state.
Like Justice Thomas I know there are times the SCOTUS got it very wrong and letting those decisions stand is also wrong.
This one is states rights.
Now they need to go after the federal one.
all supreme court justices should be made to have an anal probe twice weekly to ensure that their heads aren’t up their collective asses.
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