{"id":46378,"date":"2022-01-06T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=46378"},"modified":"2022-01-09T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:49:04","slug":"district-court-stays-us-marines-vaccine-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/district-court-stays-us-marines-vaccine-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"District Court Stays Navy SEAL Vaccine Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46373\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/seals2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/seals2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/seals2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/seals2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>In a little reported headline, a US District Court judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/judge-issues-stay-against-vaccine-mandate-for-navy-seals-seeking-religious-exemption\">issued a temporary injunction<\/a> preventing the US military from punishing or discharging 35 US Navy SEALs and reservists who have religious objections to the COVID vaccine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor, the U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, issued the stay in response to a lawsuit filed by First Liberty Institute in November on behalf of 35 active-duty SEALs and three reservists seeking a religious exemption\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite saying they would offer a religious exemption, the US military has famously granted exactly <em>zero<\/em> such exemptions (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiannewswire.com\/news\/2615685882.html\">more than 15,000 requests<\/a>), leading to skepticism of <!--more-->the sincerity of the military\u2019s claims that it values religious freedom. In fact, the presiding judge called the Navy\u2019s religious exemption process \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2022\/01\/04\/judge-blocks-navys-discipline-of-seals-refusing-covid-19-vaccine.html\">theater<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The facts overwhelmingly indicate that the Navy will deny the religious accommodations,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor wrote. &#8220;The Navy has, to date, never granted a religious accommodation request for the COVID-19 vaccine. In fact, in the past seven years, the Navy has never granted a single religious exemption for any vaccine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few Marines have indicated the military appears to be issuing &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/marines-being-crushed-vaccine-refusal-political-purge\">blanket denials<\/a>&#8216; of the religious exemption requests, with the requests apparently unread and denied simply based on the need for \u201cmilitary readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Navy SEALs are represented by the First Liberty Institute\u2019s General Counsel, Mike Berry, as <a href=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2021\/11\/12\/navy-seals-file-lawsuit-over-covid-vaccine-religious-exemptions\/\">previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2022\/01\/04\/navy-blocked-from-acting-against-35-covid-vaccine-refusers\/\">Religion News Service<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little reported headline, a US District Court judge issued a temporary injunction preventing the US military from punishing or discharging 35 US Navy SEALs and reservists who have religious objections to the COVID vaccine: Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor, the U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, issued the stay in response to a lawsuit filed by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,4,82,6826,5486,19,4415,2,2074,10,171,6015,5361,6938],"class_list":["post-46378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-covid19","tag-first-liberty-institute","tag-government","tag-mike-berry","tag-military","tag-navy-seal","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-religious-freedom-restoration-act","tag-rfra","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46403,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378\/revisions\/46403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}