In a statement, the church leaders said people should "pay heed to competent medical authorities and to avoid the false narratives utterly unfounded in science." Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said there is no religious reason for its church members not to be vaccinated and its clergy members were also urged not to issue religious exemption letters. The Christian Science church and Jehovah's Witnesses have said they are not opposed to COVID-19 vaccinations, calling them personal decisions for each individual. While Pope Francis recommended that people get vaccinated as "an act of love," which has been echoed by several bishops out of care for the common good, bishops in Colorado, South Dakota and Wisconsin expressed concern about a vaccine mandate's impact on individuals' conscience-formed decisions. Some bishops advised Catholics specifically not to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, if they had a choice, saying it was linked to an abortion-derived cell line in its development, unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which used these lines only in testing phase.
Conference of Catholic Bishops have said that current COVID-19 vaccines are morally permissible, but have stressed that Catholics are not obligated to get them.
Statements from both the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the U.S. vaccines have - in varying degrees - to an abortion-derived cell line. One religious argument against the vaccine is that it goes against the New Testament passage which describes human bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit.Īnother religious argument is a pro-life one, citing a connection the three U.S. In the meantime, religious exemption forms are piling up. 12, a federal appeals court upheld its previous order temporarily blocking President Joe Biden's vaccine and testing mandate for large companies the Justice Department had challenged the court's block on the mandate. These mandates are being challenged in multiple lawsuits, including one filed by a coalition of 10 states, while a number of employee vaccine mandates are being challenged in multiple circuit courts. The Biden administration, as part of its "Path Out of the Pandemic" plan, has ordered federal workers, workers at facilities that participate in Medicare or Medicaid and employers with 100 employees or more to require vaccination in the upcoming months Members of different faiths have differing views though and some have raised questions particularly about vaccine mandates. There is no checklist of religions that have come out as completely against the vaccine because no major religion has done so. Employers then have to determine whether these beliefs are sincere and if an accommodation for the unvaccinated employee would place an undue hardship on others by posing a direct threat to their health and safety.ĭetermining sincerity can be complicated because it is so personal.
To get a religious exemption, employees have to provide reasons for their claim and sometimes proof of it through a form signed by a church leader. WASHINGTON (CNS) - Religion usually stays out of the workplace, but now with expanding COVID-19 vaccine requirements, employees' personal faith is front and center as many of them across the country say they have religious reasons not to get vaccinated.
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