School Religious Exemption Appeal Filed With U.S. Supreme Court
Connecticut Repealed its Religious Exemption in April 2021
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Does vaccine ideology trump ones ethical and religious directives based upon firmly held religious beliefs or those of the church? We may find out with this recent US Supreme Court Filing. Brian Festa, Esq., Vice-President & Co-Founder of We the Patriots USA, Inc, is the attorney of record on this case at SCOTUS. This is what We the Patriots USA, who is also the lead plaintiff, said about the case:
"In April of 2021, within hours of Connecticut's religious exemption repeal bill being signed into law by Governor Lamont, we stood on the steps of the Connecticut Supreme Court and promised to take this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Today, we have kept that promise. If we are victorious, the decision could restore religious freedom not only for families in Connecticut, but in other states where it's been lost, including California, New York, and Maine."
Attorney Cameron Atkinson, lead counsel in the lawsuit, also issued a statement on Monday: "Today, we ask the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the unthinkable: statewide vaccination mandates that do not provide religious exemptions. While today’s case focuses on school vaccination mandates, it asks the Court to protect the religious liberty of every American – whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc. – to refuse vaccinations that violate their consciences. That religious liberty starts with our children and their right to attend school without abandoning their faith. If the Supreme Court declines to hear this case or says the lower courts got it right, religious liberty will perish in the United States, and the three strong mothers of faith and their children will become second class citizens in our society because of their faith.”
Because routine vaccines do no completely prevent disease, stop transmission, nor do they reduce the risk of hospitalization and death in large randomized trials, shouldn't the choice of vaccination be a personal/parental health decision and not one made by the state? Can public health objectives override your strongly held religious beliefs?
Let’s see if SCOTUS takes on this case. I predict they will not touch it making vaccine exemptions a continued, contentious issue in states that do not offer the full platter of philosophical, religious, and medical exemptions. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued a statement in 2000 indicating we should not have mandates concerning vaccines in the first place.
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
President, McCullough Foundation
No one should EVER be mandated to take ANY vaccine PERIOD.... why in America is this even possible!? We should not have to resort to religion in the first place especially if one takes the time to read vaccine inserts. No one should EVER have to take a vaccine with a side effect of death or serious complications to one’s health.
Asking for a religious exemption is a trap.
Doing so implies the State has authority over the bodily sovereignty of individuals.
It doesn't!
The hill to die on to quote a famous chant of the Communist left, "My body My choice". Putting my spin on it, My life, My choice!