RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
September 28, 2021 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2021 at 12:55 pm by Soberman921.)
(September 27, 2021 at 10:43 pm)brewer Wrote:(September 27, 2021 at 4:09 pm)Soberman921 Wrote: Some thoughts on evangelicals and vaccine hesitancy
https://www.jwcampbell.org/blog-3/blog-p...-one-rmhdt
Should a religious practice or sincere belief (vaccine exemption) be allowed in our society when it poses a threat or potential harm to others? I think the courts might need to take another bite out of that apple.
These are two different questions. A belief should be allowed, but in my view a religious practice should be only be allowed to the extent it does not violate generally applicable laws or create a significant risk of harm to others. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court is headed in a different direction, granting certain religious practices protections that allow them to create and perpetuate such risks.
I would like to see claims of religious exemption more rigorously subjected to tests of legitimacy. When you have California pastors handing out religious exemptions like candy it is hard to argue that these are truly based on heartfelt beliefs. I strongly suspect few could justify their exemptions with any argument that could not easily be shown inconsistent with other religious beliefs that person claims to hold, revealing the arbitrary non-religious, often more political than religious, bases of these positions.