Sr. Deidre Byrne at the Republican National Convention, 2020.
Posted on 03/10/2022 6:07:58 PM PST by marshmallow
So far DC Health does not seem to have granted a single request for religious exemption from the vaccine mandate despite the paramount rights and guarantees under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Sr. Deidre Byrne at the Republican National Convention, 2020.
(Thomas More Society) – A beloved Roman Catholic nun, who is also a physician-surgeon and a retired U.S. Army colonel, is suing Washington, DC, over its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers.
Thomas More Society attorneys filed suit on March 9, 2022, in the federal United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of Sister Dierdre Byrne against the district’s mayor Muriel Bowser, along with LaQuandra Nesbitt – director of the district’s health department – and the District of Columbia itself for their joint refusal to grant Byrne a religious exemption from vaccination.
Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara shared how Byrne, who is a Roman Catholic religious Sister of the Little Workers of the Sacred Heart as well as a board-certified general surgeon and family physician, provides free medical services to the poor and the undocumented.
“Sister Dierdre has sought – and been denied – a religious exemption from DC’s health worker COVID-19 vaccination mandate,” explained Ferrara. “All three COVID-19 vaccines approved in the United States have been tested, developed, or produced with cell lines derived from abortions, something to which Sister Dierdre has deep and sincere religious opposition.”
The lawsuit notes that Bowser has twice been previously chastised by the court for burdening religion by her abuse of “emergency powers.”
“Judicial intervention is required once again,” observed Ferrara, “This time to prevent a senseless bar on the practice of medicine by a religious sister who has devoted her career in the District......
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I wish her luck in our current ILLegal unjustice system. There should be more of these suits to tax our courts as to the serious nature of mandates by this administration and other government agencies.
This Sister was one of my wife’s medical school classmates at Georgetown Medical School decades ago. We’ve spent time with her over the years. She is truly one of the most compelling people I’ve ever met — a brilliant, fearless, fun-loving, modern version of Mother Teresa. God Bless Her.
If a doctor becomes a nun, is he still a dr.??
“is he still a dr.??” Yes. Sr. is still a Dr. 99% of the people will call her Sister. She is getting hassled by failed losers simply because she is a Trump supporter. Thankfully, Ferrara is a slick lawyer who will win.
If a doctor becomes a heretic, is he still a doctor?
Guessing so
Some jobsworthy pushpaper will probably tell her that her religious objections aren’t sincere, as the DOD has been doing with the military who have religious objections.
I have it good and reliable authority that a source close to Sister Dede Byrne’s lawyer has stated that he has persuaded authorities to reinstate Sister’s medical license and to grant her a religious exemption for the COVID19 vaccination.
Sr Dede was recently interviewed about her lawsuit against DC to have her license reinstated and to obtain the vaccine exemption on religious grounds.
The lawyer to whom I refer as source is not Christopher Ferrara as seen in the FOX interview.
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