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But that trick
By jmeltzer
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 2:53pm
never works.
Easy solution
By lbb
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 3:24pm
The state could save itself the trouble of all the double-checking and just bar any religious exemption. They're all scams anyway.
Religion has only been a scam
By Kinopio
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 4:07pm
Religion has only been a scam for thousands of years. Let’s just give them a couple thousand more to turn things around!
Religious exemptions should not exist
By Ron Newman
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 3:58pm
No religion supports refusing vaccines. Just get rid of this provision in the law.
I’m sure someone somewhere has created …
By Lee
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 9:49pm
… a new religion that doesn’t allow adherents to be vaccinated. In addition, existing religions are all subject to fluid interpretations of their sacred texts. So there are ways to support any claim that a certain religion forbids vaccination. Just as you can find pro abortion choice and anti choice interpretations of the Christian bible.
It doesn’t matter whether someone’s religion is anti vax or not. What matters is that religion, unlike a medical condition, is a matter of personal choice. If you chose your anti vax religion over your job and your civic duty, the consequence is that you deserve to lose your job. Simple as that.
You’re not wrong
By brianjdamico
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:03pm
If your job expects you to turn against your sincerely held religious beliefs, then surely that is not the job for you.
This is the best response I've read
By SamWack
Wed, 10/27/2021 - 2:51pm
There's no need to disrespect the sincerity of someone's beliefs, or the beliefs themselves, to conclude that they are not compatible with certain responsibilities. If your beliefs have led you to make a vow of silence, those beliefs should be respected, but you cannot expect to hold a job answering telephones.
If religious exemptions are on the table
By StillFromDorchester
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 4:32pm
How do they determine who gets one?
3 day test
By Parkwayne
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 7:23pm
Put them in a cave and if they come out three days later, they're a Messiah.
3 day test (alternate)
By Wiffleball
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 8:03pm
Nail them to a doorframe and if they're still there three days later, they're a mezuzah.
If there's a best of Uhub
By BostonDog
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 11:36pm
That gets my vote
This is outrageous and
By Karen
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:00pm
This is outrageous and probably violates their contracts. Prepare for a legal battle.
Uh huh
By lbb
Wed, 10/27/2021 - 8:44am
Outrageous how and why? Do tell.
"probably"
By brianjdamico
Wed, 10/27/2021 - 9:00am
Thanks for weighing in, Counselor!
Why we can’t have nice things
By emac
Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:25pm
“Said simply, Governor Baker’s administration can not make it up as they go without being challenged by this union, not when your religious and medical beliefs, your professional careers and your ability to provide for your families hangs in the balance,” Scafidi wrote. “The MCOFU Executive Board will continue to hold this administration accountable for the unimaginable treatment you now have to endure, or we will go down swinging in the process.”
Unimaginable treatment, this *checks notes* requirement that you get a vaccine to protect you from covid-19.
"religious and medical beliefs"
By lbb
Wed, 10/27/2021 - 8:53am
Well that's an interesting word choice, isn't it? Medicine is not a matter of "belief", it is based on empirical evidence, all of which points to all but an infinitesimal percentage of the population being vaccinated as the best course for their own health, never mind the common good. As for your "religious beliefs...hanging in the balance", even making the extremely generous allowance that these are sincerely held religious beliefs and not a cynical use of religion as a fig leaf to obtain a special privilege...no religion has these beliefs. Ever since people started waving the "but mah religious beliefs!" flag over vaccination, as far as I'm aware, not one religion has come forward to state its opposition to vaccination -- and those who would most likely do so have explicitly stated that they do not object to vaccination. Sorry, if you want to claim an exemption, the burden of proof is on you, to prove that you have a medical condition that prevents vaccination, and to establish the sincerity of your "sincerely held" beliefs AND the position of your religion as being against vaccination. And guess what, you still lose your job, because your "belief" does not protect you and others.
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