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lees1975

(3,900 posts)
Mon Nov 8, 2021, 06:32 PM Nov 2021

Vaccination Mandates Do Not Violate Religious Freedom

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/mandated-vaccinations-have-nothing-to.html

And they're not government overreach or intrusion, not since the Supreme Court said so in 1905.

I want this thing to be over, and vaccinations are one of the quickest and most effective routes to it. People are getting frustrated with restrictions and they need to start turning that frustration into votes against Republicans who keep insisting that this somehow violates their rights. It violates my right to not have to be exposed.
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Vaccination Mandates Do Not Violate Religious Freedom (Original Post) lees1975 Nov 2021 OP
The Supreme Court found that states could do so, not the federal government. PoliticAverse Nov 2021 #1
It doesn't restrict or forbid the federal government lees1975 Nov 2021 #2
"then the federal government doing it would not be over-reach or intrusion." PoliticAverse Nov 2021 #3
The court case was based on a state statute lees1975 Nov 2021 #4

lees1975

(3,900 posts)
2. It doesn't restrict or forbid the federal government
Mon Nov 8, 2021, 06:43 PM
Nov 2021

and if the states can do it, then the federal government doing it would not be over-reach or intrusion.

But the point here is that there is no religious argument from Christian theology against it, and it does not violate any first amendment religious freedom.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
3. "then the federal government doing it would not be over-reach or intrusion."
Mon Nov 8, 2021, 06:50 PM
Nov 2021

That's not necessarily true, states have more powers than the federal government in some areas and vice versa.

lees1975

(3,900 posts)
4. The court case was based on a state statute
Mon Nov 8, 2021, 10:04 PM
Nov 2021

but that does not mean that it cannot apply to federal mandates. There are court rulings which give similar power to the Federal government, including some recent ones when it comes to the Affordable Care Act.

But part of the argument here is that a vaccination mandate violates individual, first amendment religious freedom when it clearly has absolutely nothing to do with religion.

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