Troops find religious exemption for vaccines unattainable
Posted By: Ribicon, 12/19/2021 8:43:18 PM
Washington—More than 12,000 military service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are seeking religious exemptions, and so far they are having zero success. That total lack of approvals is creating new tensions within the military, even as the vast majority of the armed forces have gotten vaccinated. The services, urgently trying to keep the coronavirus pandemic in check by getting troops vaccinated, are now besieged with exemption requests they are unlikely to approve. Meanwhile, troops claiming religious reasons for avoiding the shots are perplexed because exemptions are theoretically available, yet seem impossible to obtain.(Snip)In addition to discussions with chaplains to determine whether they have a “sincerely held belief,”
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The shots don't work, but do have nasty side effects, and they're leaving it up to others to determine what is a person's sincerely held belief. This is not the America we were told it was.