US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
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US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
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Re: US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
#2Let's maintain a list full of what we perceive are our ideological enemies. Great!
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#3I wonder if even a majority of people who file one have a legitimate religious objection instead of abusing this ability to get out of mandates.
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#4Let's maintain a list full of what we perceive are our ideological enemies. Great!
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Re: US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
#5Religious exemptions from vaccination are bullshit.
1)Objections based on "fetal cell lines" being used in development apply to such a large swath of drugs that anyone who held that view "legitimately" would be unable to accept almost any form of modern medical care - including "when you get home, take a tylenol for the pain."
2)No major religion supports vaccination exemptions. Most religious leaders have expressly prohibited their subordinates from granting religious exemptions. Even the Christian Scientists, who are literally an anti-medicine cult who think you get sick for sinning and prayer cures all, are pro covid vaccine.
3)Religious exemptions grant favorable/special privileges to people who claim to hold a particular religious view. That is not separation of church and state. That is endorsement of church, by the state.
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#6If anyone can offer a reason as to why this system is beneficial to public health, safety or security, I'd love to hear it.
I can only see a detriment to each if this law was put into effect.
Re: US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
#7I wonder if even a majority of people who file one have a legitimate religious objection instead of abusing this ability to get out of mandates.
If one is young and already had Covid before vaccines were available, there is an ethical argument to be made that you should be allowed to give up your spot in line to the poor who are still waiting all around the world.
If you want other people to make your ethical decisions for you when it comes to your own body, we know where that leads.
Re: US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
#8If anyone can offer a reason as to why this system is beneficial to public health, safety or security, I'd love to hear it. I can only see a detriment to each if this law was put into effect.
Easy. It will dissuade people who don't hold legitimate religious beliefs forbidding vaccination (there are substantially zero of them) from using religious exemptions. This will increase the vaccination percentages, reducing spread and keeping ICUs available for folks who didn't elect their condition.
[edit] I'm sorry, if you choose to prioritize conspiracy theories over your health and that of others, I'm not at all opposed to reasonable barriers to that. We've had vaccines since 1796.
Re: US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
#9Let's maintain a list full of what we perceive are our ideological enemies. Great!
Why assume that they are ideological enemies? I’m sure there are plenty of govt officials who filed such requests and many many more who, though they don’t object to vaccination, want to ensure that religious rights are protected and want to make sure that when they feel the need to object to something or ask for an exemption, that that will be honored.
Certainly it’s worth collecting statistics on who requested what to guide in future rule making. I do think this kind of data collection should be conducted by the census bureau, which does have an expertise and practice on privacy-protecting statistics collection and analysis.
Separately, it does appear that very few people care about their privacy at this level. People accept driving around with huge serial numbers attached to their vehicle for all to see; driving licenses with names and addresses on them; an inability to get an anonymous PO Box; electronic tolls that collect driver information rather than being anonymous…I could go on at great length.
Re: US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
#10I wonder if even a majority of people who file one have a legitimate religious objection instead of abusing this ability to get out of mandates.
I wonder if the governments enforcing mandates have a legitimate reason to enforce them.
There FTFY.