Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might not like that the exemption exists, but it's legal in the USA. Would you rather that religious beliefs were not respected by the government?
I'd prefer that we not all pretend that 2000-year-old religions somehow magically dictated that vaccines were bad. They obviously didn't. These obviously are not legitimate "religious" beliefs. Religion is transparently being used as a cloak for political beliefs fueled by misinformation. Taking covid-related "religious" beliefs seriously only undercuts societal respect for actual religious belief.
You don't understand any of the religious arguments if you think its just because it's a vaccine. It could be because fetal tissue was used in manufacturing these vaccines (they were). There are many other such examples.