As more businesses and institutions adopt Covid-19 vaccine mandates for their workers, a new legal battle is pitting public health needs against the First Amendment and the right to refuse the vaccine on religious grounds. NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos breaks down whether the First Amendment can protect refusal of the shot on religious grounds and how courts can decide if someone has sincere religious objections to the vaccine.ÂÂÂ
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#Vaccines #PublicHealth #ReligiousLiberties
This is a gateway to the violations of more human rights!!!
NO VACCINE!!!
LAS VEGAS NEVADA SAYS NO TO VACCINE !!!
Why are you all so terrified of a couple of needles that could save your life? I have no problem with mandates as they will save lives of both unjabbed, and jabbed people and that is more important than any religion/beliefs
Can’t believe they will take your ability to support/feed your family if you don’t let them pump u fool of their RNA drugs. This is INSANE!
Antimaskers, antivaxxers good luck enjoying the freedoms most Americans can still do. Don’t come crying when you lose your job and have no income either.
I see you as Anti American and a domestic terrorist
How stupid? Religious beliefs are between you and God. You aren’t my God so I don’t have to explain to you difference between eating slice of pizza and the jab. Good luck with your very stupid argument. Any Constitutional lawyer would have field day with that lame argument.
I don't need a religion to tell you why you can't mandate what goes in my body.
This has nothing to do with religion. It is about the government trying to make personal medical decisions for me, and I will not comply.
They don't care what you believe they want to tell you what you believe.#fightordie
How about that ratio? Not only do they not understand law, but they don't understand the word of God.
Go figure…🙄 Just puppets for the devil
Lol, Public Health "Needs"
No, public health nerds. The data supports all the preceding, inexpensive, effective treatments. #Ivermectin
"I call my own shots ". Okay,I will buy this idea. I, also, think that these fools who steadfastly refuse to get vaccinated against Covid should shoulder 100 percent of their medical care if or when they become ill from Covid.
You can't have it both ways.
Next up will be if you not vacc you must forfeit you weapons and carry license… then would most likely be police raids…
If you are unwilling to get a vaccination then Do Not run crying and whining to a hospital if you contract Covid19. Hospitals are currently filled with unvaccinated morons who refused their shots. People who have other illnesses or who are in need of procedures are unable to be admitted because of the despicable people who refused vaccinations and then got Covid and then insisted they be treated like at a hospital. Stay home!
Ignorant and condescending towards people's religious beliefs. The body being a temple is a matter of morality. It's what you do with your body. Sexual immorality, etc. Nothing to do with physical fitness.
It does not pit anything against the 1st Amendment – which was made 1st for a Reason. We can all thank Mary Dyer, executed in Boston, Massachusetts for her enduring Faith in God. ALL unclean injections without consent are unconstitutional sinful violations of the demand of Purity from Elohim.
Matthew 5 : 8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Psalm 51 : 10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."
Proverbs 4 : 23 "Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life."
James 4 : 8
"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded."
Psalm 24 : 3-4
"Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD ? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully."
1st Peter
"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,"
1st John 3 : 3
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1st Timothy 1 : 5
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Titus 1 : 15
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Acts 15 : 9
And he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Matthew 22 : 37
And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
1st John 3 : 2
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Proverbs 22 : 11
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
Psalm 119 : 9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
Wrong, My Body is My temple….it's like my house. I allow INTO it what I choose, & keep out what I DONT WANT.
If they cant fulfill their job requirements which requires getting the vaccine, they shouldn't be allowed to fulfill their jobs because they put the general population at risk. Safety first at any job.
Went from 15 days to flatten the curve to vaccine mandates and having to produce medical records to watch a hockey game. Freedom was just an illusion…..
If the mandate is causing this much confusion and question…drama!!.. then why have the mandate at all?? Let the choice be the peoples own.
Um…….this has nothing to do with religious beliefs. Nice try Media! This is about your freedom to make a choice about your medical care. Wow. What a scam report.
The it only hurts me argument again is bs. It affects every person that needs to go to the hospital for an emergency but you have to wait an hour for an ambulance or sit in the waiting room for an hour waiting on a bed to open up but they are all full of non vaccinated people that could have spared themselves and others. I live in southern Illinois, pure trump free-dumb country and we cant get into the emergency room right now or get an ambulance. So again continue to act like children
If it were just your health and life I'd agree your body your choice. but when you can spread a killing virus I think it isn't in the best interest of the population. If you do not want the shot you should be placed in isolation away from healthy people.
How can they compare this vaccine to other vaccines? Their stupid..
This vaccine is taking jobs and ect from people. Their choice is being taken away. Most religious beliefs are to do with mark of the beast. How come they can’t figure this out?
Me and all the other unvaccinated people I know feel great but all the vaccinated we know are sick and suffering from different medical conditions that didn’t have before. I wanna stay healthy, so no poison for me.
A major unmentionable by establishment medicine and much of the media is that major states in India (population in one state alone 200 million) pretty much ended their pandemic with Ivermectin.
Deceptive Title, – your presumptive propaganda narrative that Vaccine Mandates are what we all NEED. I will not spell out all the arguments against that, as there is now too much on the subject to even mention here, (including how countries w low vax rates are doing very well relative to together countries). but on an individual basis there are many that should not be forced to take the vaccine when they know their own bodies, know about the many dangers, and should not be coerced or forced to receiving it under threat of losing their livelihoods, and to be otherwise be "left behind" in society. And then there is the growing medical concern about the long term dangers of this gene therapy "vaccine". It is said that the risk rises greatly w each additional dose (booster.). Who says this is what we all NEED? The WHO? The FDA? When they have a hand in the curbing of Ivermectin production by Merck so people can't get it, and when the FDA has suddenly banned the very safe NAC as a supplement- (not just for COVID, but now for EVERYONE that uses it to help detoxify on a regular basis – just so happens the same folk w methylation defects that depend on it to detoxify and who have more trouble w vaccine damage.) … These 2 – Ivermectin and NAC, are used all over the world to prevent and treat COVID for pennies, in 3rd World Countries that are faring much better than USA and better than Israel, with much higher vax rates. Before any replies to the contrary, please do your homework. There is now MUCH more out there than there was a year ago, on both BITCHUTE and YT, as well as scientific articles (even though a number of research articles supporting that go against the current narrative of WHO and FDA have reportedly been/are being rejected and delayed for publication in medical journals for no good reason.. The info is out there if you really want to take an honest look. Lots of very credible information from very credible sources… ÂÂÂ
And now, there is also the issue of violating the deeply help religious liberties of those who cannot accept this 'vaccine" or knowingly accept any other vaccine that uses embryonic / fetal cell lines in its testing or manufacturing. Those that sincerely object on these grounds know they will have to answer to God. The punishments being brought down on these people are unconscionable, and most certainly un constitutional. The Leftists who rightfully cried out against Japanese Internment camps and the denial of civil rights for blacks in the USA are now throwing the religious who object to this "vaccine" under the bus. Where are you all NOW??
The United States government has a reputation of being a pathological liar throughout its entire history so you can take your vaccinations and stick them where the sun don't shine!ðŸ¤â€Ââ¤â¤ðŸ¤â€Â🥰🤑🤑😅😄😆🤑🤪😆ðŸ¤â€â€ÃƒÂ°Ã…¸â„¢â€šÃ°Å¸â„¢â€šÃ°Å¸â„¢â€šÃ°Å¸Ëœâ€ Ã°Å¸Ëœâ€Â
Revelation 13:16-17
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE THREATENED
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (pharmakeia) were all nations deceived. (Revelation 18:23) ]
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. -Martin Luther
When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.1Testimonies for the Church 5:451.ÂÂÂ
Yet prophecy predicts that in the closing moments of time, the U.S. will deny its constitutional principles of freedom and ‘speak like a dragon.’
The beast from the Sea= papacy(Most Influential Religious Power in the World)
 The Beast from the Land= America(Strongest Military and Economic Power in the World)
The mark of the beast involves the substitution of a human commandment for God’s commandment. The greatest evidence of this fact is the humanly established institution of Sunday (Dan. 7:25) as the day of worship instead of the seventh-day Sabbath, the day mandated in Scripture by our Creator. The attempt to change the sign of God’s authority to another day is an attempt to usurp the role and power of God Himself. “The mark of the beast is the papal sabbath. … When the decree shall go forth enforcing the counterfeit sabbath, and the loud cry of the third angel shall warn men against the worship of the beast and his image, … then those who still continue in transgression will receive the mark of the beastâ€ÂÂ. – Ellen G. White, Evangelism, pages 234, 235.
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Revelation 7:2, 3.
The seal of the living God will be placed upon those only who bear a likeness to Christ in character.
As wax takes the impression of the seal, so the soul is to take the impression of the Spirit of God and retain the image of Christ.
It is obedience to the principles of the commandments of God, that molds the character after the divine similitude.
Jesus not many will make it, so religion wont help you. You must be truly be born again of the spirit. John 3 verse 3. You must have a personal relationship with Him. Jesus never said follow religion, he said follow me.
A HOLY TEMPLE** of GOD. The bible says God hates the shedding of innocent blood. Abortion is child sacrifice. GODs law is the highest. You are not exempt.
Fauci and Bill Gates since before 1999 when the first PATENT was issued on a lab modified corona virus. Patents of viruses for lab created patents… The CDC they create disease so they can profit from the disease!!!
In the Bible we have been given freewill. When governments violate this belief and God given right it is an infringement on that belief.
ATTENTION: This isn't about protecting the vaccinated, it's about PEOPLE RISKING THEIR LIVES…
RATHER THAN TRUST THE GOVERNMENT !!!
It is a WORLDWIDE LOYALTY TEST. Governments world wide will SYTEMATICALY FIRE and DISLOCATE EVERYONE who does NOT trust them.
If the vaccinated need to be PROTECTED from the unvaccinated, then, OF WHAT BENIFIT. IS THE SHOT? Look around my friends, GLOBAL WARMING, thousands on thousands of people already HOMELESS, UNEMPLOYED, STARVING, and they INCLUDE. WHOLE FAMILIES BROTHERS SISTERS. DAUGHTERS SONS.
World Governments will only SAVE THE LOYAL…PERIOD! I f YOU don't trust them, why should they SAVE YOU?!
The Bible says,
"Mark 13:12-13
New King James Version
12 Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 13 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who [b]endures to the end shall be saved."
Free Your Mind2
Funny, how Democrats say, when it comes to abortion, it's "my body, my choice". But when it come to being vaccinated it's "your body, my choice". What hypocrites!
Give onto Cesar what belongs to Cesar and give onto god what belongs god and his resides inside us and god is the temple god is our healer and we will not be forced to take something over our own free will that’s a god given right so we can get good shop and live life that god had created for us so your examples are weak and make nonsense
Hey dummy that first thing you said about your body being a temple Jesus literally said it’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man but what comes out of the mouth that defiles a man
Please everyone, take your vitamins so my vitamins will work.
Still haven’t gotten shot, just had baby.. too much inconsistent info and something is keeping me from doing it.
I Rather loose my job then get a vaccine then I can go homeless and get takin care of by the government welfare
My Body my choice right?
I do not trust the vaccine mandate. Nobody is talking about natural immunity
If you refuse a vaccine, while practicing your religious convictions, you are automatically protected by the U.S. Constitution. You are also protected by the Geneva Conventions. If any employer threatens to fire you for not being vaccinated, then threaten him or her back with a law suit, in which you will defend your right to practice your religious convictions that prevent you from taking vaccines. You do not need a letter from any pastor, minister or church, since the Constitution does not state anything of the sort. Your religious beliefs alone protect you. Don't be afraid to sue or go to court and to refuse these vaccines, which have caused nearly 15,000 deaths and over 670,000 injuries. Know you rights and don't back down! Don't be afraid of Biden, Fauci or any politician, doctor, employer or hospital that threatens you over the practice of your religion. You will win in court and then you can sue them for harassment and distress.
1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…."
I don't comply with medical terrorists
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
… to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, …
The Supreme Court has made it clear that it is not a court's role to determine the reasonableness of an individual religious beliefs, and that religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection.
“When rights secured by the Constitution (religious beliefs, ARMS) are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.†Miranda vs. State of Arizona, 384 U.S. 436,491 (1966).
Black Law Dictionary 6th edition
Require: Direct, order, demand, instruct, command, compel, request, need. Frohmiller vs. Hendrix, 59 Arizona 184, 124 P. 2nd 768, 773.
(In other words, you can volunteer to comply if you want to.)
Mandate: An order or instruction, written or oral, that the court is authorized to give (by Congress) and the person is obliged to obey. Silverman vs. Seneca Realty Col. 154 misc. 35, 276 N.Y.S 466.
(In other words, only Congress can make mandated laws.)
just two weeks to flatten the curve