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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

In a nutshell, the basis of BCBSM's defense in each case is that the individual plaintiffs did not demonstrate a sincerely-held religious belief to justify a religious accommodation under Title VII. You can judge by the verdict how that was received by the jury.

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Vida Galore's avatar

Yes - this still enrages me, honestly. Why can't we just say no because we don't want it? Why do we need a religious exemption? And I'm a Christian. I think maybe they were using this as a way to track Christians, honestly.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Someone who I know that has been actively monitoring the situation strongly suspects that it was a force reduction move due to the timing of the firings.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Completely agree!!!

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CaplT's avatar

The court is not the arbiter of how religious one has to be to hold religious beliefs. That is unconstitutional.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

The Court is the arbiter of whether or not the State has violated the Constitution in any action it has taken. The Constitution sets forth the limited powers the State may exercise; outside of those, all other rights inhere in the People. (Parenthetically, Biden and Walz both *utterly* clueless about this simple, basic, and critically important fact; as are countless others, of course.)

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AngelaK's avatar

What exactly does your religious belief have to be? I think Jeff discussed this at one time years ago.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Sincerely held.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

Yes! Thank you for providing this response ~ the one and only correct response, regardless of how little respected by the countless defendants and various benighted courts. Amen.

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AngelaK's avatar

But what if you are a Christian but don't want vaccines more because of the negative health reasons than actual religious reasons. No traditions that I know of say ' no vaccines'. If the religious belief is bodily autonomy, then ok.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

The vaxx was developed with the aid of testing on aborted fetal lines. Catholics believe abortion is murder. Therefore using anything that is derivative of those murdered children is religiously objectionable.

Ergo Catholics and anyone else who believes abortion is murder may not take part in vaxxes derived from murder.

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AngelaK's avatar

Thank you.

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Michele's avatar

Then you are looking for a medical exemption.

The religious belief that corresponds is no "pharmakeia."

Peggy Hall videos go into this.

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CaplT's avatar

It is on his web site

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