Religious exemptions to vaccinations have emerged as a dangerous and easily exploited loophole in public health policy. It's time to ban them, writes columnist hiltzikm.
As, when employers have inquired into the nature of claimants’ “religious” beliefs, they have determined that they weren’t religious at all. Rather, they involved concerns about vaccines’ safety that were cloaked in religious verbiage, in part to take advantage of courts’ traditional tolerance for religious claims.
Among the indications that the claims are not genuinely religious is that virtually all major religions approve of vaccinations; some, such as the Mormon church, actively encourage them. Some Catholics say their objection to the COVID-19 vaccines derives from the use of abortion-derived cell lines in their development or production. The Colorado Catholic Conference, the policy arm of that state’s bishops, even producedBut the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which oversees the application of church doctrine to healthcare,The conference says that neither Pfizer nor Moderna, the makers of the leading COVID-19 vaccines in use in the U.S.
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