Vaccine Mandates Sow Mass Chaos Throughout Military As Service Members Seek Religious Accommodations, by Kylee Zempel

‘The Biden administration does not care about religious freedom. Instead, this appears to be an attempted ideological purge of our military.’

By Kylee Zempel, The Federalist, Nov. 18, 2021

Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist.

Mixed messages from the higher-ups, unclear repercussions for refusal, a disparity in treatment among different states and branches of the military, a range of deadlines, and goalpost-shifting on the meaning of religious exemptions have converged to create mass chaos throughout the military as tens of thousands of yet-unvaccinated service members grapple with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and many seek exemptions.

The Pentagon has promised that these requests for accommodation, which are mostly religious but include some medical, will be considered on a “case-by-case” basis, but that assurance provides no clarity about the military’s subjective process for assessing the sincerity of religious belief. Nor does it grant hope to the many unvaccinated members of the Armed Forces whose personal convictions are presently being scrutinized and might be disregarded. …

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