Posted on 05/19/2024 12:32:08 AM PDT by CFW
A Colorado university’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal court has ruled.
The Sept. 1, 2021, mandate “clearly violates the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause as interpreted by our precedents,” a majority of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit said in the May 7 decision. While the mandate was later updated, the newer version also violates the Constitution, the judges said.
The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2021 required COVID-19 vaccination of all students and employees. It initially offered religious exemptions to anyone who checked a box, but later said administrators would “only recognize religious exemptions based on religious beliefs whose teachings are opposed to all immunizations.”
Officials, for instance, said that Christian Scientists would qualify for an exemption but Buddhists would not.
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The appeal was brought by the Thomas More Society on behalf of the students and employees.
“The University of Colorado ran roughshod overstaff and students of faith during COVID, and the court of appeals has now declared plainly what we’ve fought to establish for almost three years: the university acted with ‘religious animus’ and flagrantly violated the fundamental religious liberties of these brave healthcare providers and students,” Peter Breen, executive president of the society, said in a statement.
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Many court systems were shutdown and various executive branch governments ran wild during the timeframe. Once things got going again it took many months and even years to litigate Covid issues in the courts.
Bingo.
The fatal flaw in our system has been exposed. (On paper, we've got the greatest form of government in the world. But John Adams' warning about it being made only for a moral and religious people has proven true. And our system is completely unequipped to contend with a post-Christian country.)
Oh sure, now they rule on the issue!
Everybody finds their courage once the battle is over and they come crawling out from behind the trees.
Iverm3ctin is far far safer than even things like Tylenol which kills a bunch of people every year. Ivermectin is ridiculously safe- and everyone in the “medical field” who claimed it wasn’t need their licenses yanked for intentionally deceiving the public and likely causing many unnecessary deaths!
primary goal was to create more lemmings.
Universities have always had the authority to mandate certain vaccinations. Their COVID policy was unconstitutional because they did not allow for an individual’s religious objection to the vaccine to be used as a means of obtaining an exemption. The 1st amendment does not base a person’s freedom of religion on whether they are officially members of a sect. Therefore you are not required to base a claim that your religious freedom is being violated on what your church believes but on what you believe.
For example, a nurse refuses to participate in transgender surgery based on her belief in the Bible teaching that God made two sexes. However her administration finds out that years ago she was baptized in a faith that now supports transgender “rights” including access to surgeries. Her request for an exemption is refused because (although she left it) her official religious affiliation does not object. That is the type of situation the university policy leads to.
So far I got it turned off for these websites:
https://hotair.com
www.kokomotribune.com
https://www.redvoicemedia.com
https://www.theepochtimes.com
https://torontosun.com
And any time I hit a paywall or get popups to subscribe to email lists, I add those websites as well. I just started doing this so it'll be interesting to see how well this works with other websites.
WE’RE the human subjects’ trial!
Sort of like, “We have to approve the bill to see what’s in it”.
It’s back a^%wards!
Fire kills coronaviruses.
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