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TexasTowelie

(116,601 posts)
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 08:37 PM Jan 2022

Navy blocked from acting against 35 COVID vaccine refusers

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from acting against 35 sailors for refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The injunction is a new challenge to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's decision to make vaccinations mandatory for all members of the military. The vaccination requirement allows for exemptions on religious and other grounds, but none of the thousands of requests for religious waivers so far have been granted.

There was no indication that the order would affect service members beyond the 35 sailors who sued Austin and the Navy.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said officials are reviewing the injunction and are in discussion with the Department of Justice “as to what options might be available to us going forward.”

Read more: https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Navy-blocked-from-acting-against-35-COVID-vaccine-16748234.php

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relayerbob

(7,000 posts)
4. I'm trying to figure out what religious book has a problem with people being healed
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 09:12 PM
Jan 2022

In my years of syudying philosophy and religion, I never saw anything like that in any of the religious texts, only that we were are supposed to help one another. Weird

PortTack

(34,581 posts)
5. Federal judge be damned! Every leader for millennia, military or otherwise know that the easiest
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 09:45 PM
Jan 2022

Way to defeat an enemy is to make them sick. It’s worse than them dying out right.

These fucking judges needs to step out of the way of the military!!

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