More Americans Are Using Religion To Avoid COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements
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The practice is likely to grow following President Biden’s sweeping new vaccine mandates.
An estimated 2,600 Los Angeles Police Department employees are citing religious objections to try to get out of the required COVID-19 vaccination. In Washington state, thousands of state workers are seeking similar exemptions.
And in Arkansas, a hospital has been swamped with so many such requests from employees that it is apparently calling their bluff.
Seth Wenig via Associated Press Religious objections, once used only sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines, are becoming a much more widely used loophole against the COVID-19 shot.
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