Guest Post by AP
My son’s university is mandating vaccines, and we’ve had to get a crash course on religious exemptions. I’ll summarize what I know.
1. Send a legal help request to Liberty Counsel. They are swamped with requests from students and employees, but even if you don’t get to talk with someone, they will send you times for conference calls where you can listen to a lawyer discuss the issues, and then they take questions from the attendees. It is very helpful.
2. Legally, getting a religious exemption should be a slam-dunk. It’s all there in the EEOC guidance on Title VII, Section 12, but the problem is that we no longer live under the rule of law, only the rule of power. Schools and Employers are doing whatever the hell they damn want, regardless of the law. Still, you have to try to use the law and the threat of a lawsuit.
3. Here is a link to the EEOC’s guidance on COVID19. Look specifically at section K.12.
accommodation requests from individuals who wish to wait until an alternative version or specific brand of COVID-19 vaccine is available to the employee. Such requests should be processed according to the same standards that apply to other accommodation requests.
EEOC guidance explains that the definition of religion is broad and protects beliefs, practices, and observances with which the employer may be unfamiliar. Therefore, the employer should ordinarily assume that an employee’s request for religious accommodation is based on a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. However, if an employee requests a religious accommodation, and an employer is aware of facts that provide an objective basis for questioning either the religious nature or the sincerity of a particular belief, practice, or observance, the employer would be justified in requesting additional supporting information. See also 29 CFR 1605.
Under Title VII, an employer should thoroughly consider all possible reasonable accommodations, including telework and reassignment. For suggestions about types of reasonable accommodation for unvaccinated employees, see question and answer K.6., above. In many circumstances, it may be possible to accommodate those seeking reasonable accommodations for their religious beliefs, practices, or observances.
Under Title VII, courts define “undue hardship” as having more than minimal cost or burden on the employer. This is an easier standard for employers to meet than the ADA’s undue hardship standard, which applies to requests for accommodations due to a disability. Considerations relevant to undue hardship can include, among other things, the proportion of employees in the workplace who already are partially or fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and the extent of employee contact with non-employees, whose vaccination status could be unknown or who may be ineligible for the vaccine. Ultimately, if an employee cannot be accommodated, employers should determine if any other rights apply under the EEO laws or other federal, state, and local authorities before taking adverse employment action against an unvaccinated employee
4. Also, two students from UMass filed a suit. The lawyer detailed many arguments that you may need to make. They are here in this pdf of the lawsuit. It’s a quick read with great arguments you might use.
5. Here is the full text of the EEOC guidance on Title VII, Section 12 Religious Discrimination.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-12-religious-discrimination#_ftnref226
Read Section 1 Religion, Section 2 Sincerely Held, and Section 3 Employer Inquiries into Religious Nature or Sincerity of Belief. They are short.
It’s all there – very simple. They have to accommodate a sincerely held religious belief, even if it is only held by one person, even if you go against other Catholic teachings, even if you are inconsistent in your adherence to Catholic behavior.
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If TPTB feel they can do as they please because some ass-hat black robes have ignored their responsibilities, when does it become our turn to exercise our basic right to being free men/women?? This free-for-all is going to lead to no good.
It will be soon. I can feel it.
Methinks that’s the point oldtimer.
When they use covid cheat by mail another year from now is when its spicy time.
Our legal right is more clear than theirs. But then, if you have accepted the truth, you know that. Because you have accepted that the governments have no legitimacy.
Use legalism while you can, but don’t whine and cry when they turn the tables on you. The legal system is for them, not us.
Someone should probably compile a list of churches and faiths that will back them up for things like refusing vaccines or to help people conscientiously-object their way out of the pozzed military.
I’m going with vaccine mandates being the mark of the beast by my personal reading of Revelation 13:16. It’s that simple.
I wonder what they would answer? I like it.
So close it does not need much discussion.
Get an exemption if you so desire. I am still a free man and will conduct my life as one. If you attempt to forcibly inject who knows what into my body I will take as an assault with a deadly weapon. I VAX BACK. VOTE;308 & FREEDOM
It is absolutely messed up that they are implying people can’t claim an “I have a God given right to personal autonomy” exemption?
It’s basically what my daughter has tried for her work exemption. Doubt it will fly.
I know — that’s the very definition of Natural Law and inalienable rights
A country of ignorant morons have never even heard of Natural Law and could not define inalienable rights. Even if they have, we have no way of knowing what the rest of the country is thinking, except for what the propagandists tell us.
If they can scare another few million plebes scared of losing their job to get the jab they infected another human with rfid serum the better. Who cares if its illegal and they lose lawsuits they got 90% infected with rfid. They will shed these onto the unvaxed thru other means. They will be able to control all humans internet of bodies ideology. They will change laws then come after the remaining few as terrorist.
Well, Christian Science most definitely has used religious exemptions for 100 years specifically to avoid vaccines and of course all medical treatment whatsoever.
Only problem, if you get sick, your NOT supposed to go to the hospital!
You mean I’ll have to take my chances with the deadly Covid-19 ?!?!?! Oh no – woe is me.
Don’t need treatments but there is a chance that I might need to be repaired someday. That is my worry. A severe compound fracture or similar mishap would be a bad time to learn they won’t repair you cause you aren’t “of the body”.
Hey, the PDF of the students lawsuits doesn’t seem to work for me. Do you have another link please?
Here in SC, Guv. Henry sez no mandatory masks or vaxxxs. But sez, get vaxxxed.
You probably realize we’re swapping ways to get around the fascists. A different longer term plan for yourself is probably needed. Students and parents of students pay attention. What happens once you grown child is ther?
We are fortunate in Britain, here is our loophole:
I shall be using this one I think.
ur kid should claim he is a joo and that he will donate his first million to the university
i heard somewhere within the last couple of days that amy coney barrett refused an appeal to scotus from either a student or employee who was being forced to vaxx —
Supreme court is fully threatened and compromised. They are no longer for or of the people. We saw this with election integrity where they claimed the victim, trump, had no standing. Wven lawsuits on behalf of the people they said had no standing. Then who. The. Fuck. Has. Fucking. Standing. For. Fucks fucking sake. Fuck
Csnnot believe the supreme court said nobody had standing when sueing for the election fraud. Fucking asshats