08-04-2021, 12:14 PM
PeterB wrote:
... and you'll notice that his religious exemption makes specific reference to New Testament quotations, which are inapplicable to most religions other than Christianity (as mentioned in the article). So -- you're talking about making a religious exemption for only ONE specific religion, not all of them.
I suppose if I go walking into my job or school and refuse to get vaccinated or to mask, I'm allowed to do so on the basis of the fact that the FSM has told me that the vaccines are poisons created by an orange blob, and masks are a no-go because they hide our faces, a manifestation of the touch of His Noodly Appendage?
That's one the biggest problems with religious exemptions - how are you going to separate "real" religious objections from "bogus" religious objections? What's the standard for a sincerely held religious belief? And what if a non-religious person has a sincerely held belief against the same thing as the religious person? Are they out of luck because their sincerely held belief isn't religious? Isn't that discrimination against the non-religious?