A group of about 35 U.S. Navy personnel, including 26 Navy SEALs, have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Defense over the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
The lawsuit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas names President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III, the U.S. Defense Department, and Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro as defendants.
In addition to the 26 Navy SEALs, plaintiffs also include five U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewmen, three U.S. Navy Divers and one U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician.
The complaint argues that the Navy fails to provide an adequate exemption to the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for those with sincerely held religious objections.
“Multiple Plaintiffs hold the sincere religious belief that all life is sacred, from conception to natural death, and that abortion is the impermissible taking of an innocent life in the womb,” the legal filing argues.
“As a result of their sincerely held religious beliefs regarding life and abortion, multiple Plaintiffs are unable to receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines due to what they believe and understand is a connection between these vaccines and their testing, development, or production using aborted fetal cell lines.”
The complaint quoted a Navy spokesperson who stated last month that while the military branch was processing multiple religious exemption requests, it has yet to approve any….
“When at least one Plaintiff told his command that he would be requesting a religious
accommodation, he was ordered to remove his special warfare device pin from his uniform. Other Plaintiffs have been threatened with the same adverse treatment.”
….In October, Roman Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy Broglio defended those who object to the fact that vaccines use aborted fetal cell lines in their testing or development. He argued that “no one should be forced to receive a Covid-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience….”
The above comes from a Nov. 10 story in the Christian Post.
I’m sorry but these requests for an exemption on the basis of the jab being morally tainted by remote material cooperation with abortion lack substantial support. Many of these same people don’t care one whit about ingesting other commonly used drugs that are also similarly tainted. Many are trying to appeal for a religious exemption but the actual reason they don’t want the jab is otherwise, such as just not wanting to put an untested, experimental poison in their bodies.
So I guess you use what arguments and tactics are available to you, because we live in an imperfect and irrational world.
After all, all you have to do is declare yourself a woman if you have a penis and you can use the women’s facilities in any place of business, school, gym or health club. No need to demonstrate a sincerely held belief about being a woman by chopping off your wiener. And if anyone questions you or denies you your choice of facilities, you can sue him.
So what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
But it’s all illogical.
These SEALS et.al. are disobeying the order of the Commander-in-Chief. They should be relieved of duty, placed in the brig and court martialed. What a bunch of sissies.
Trumpo, so you believe federal law should be enforced?
(Then, you support enforcement of federal immigration laws, correct?)
Or, only Mr. Biden’s orders?
Did you believe Mr. Trump’s orders should be obeyed?
Would you call one of those SEALs a sissy to his face?
You should be grateful for those who are willing to lay down their lives for those of us who casually post here, especially on this Veterans Day. Or didn’t that cross your mind today?
And, thank you to any veterans or those serving who might happen to read this. Your service is appreciated.
Trumpovsky — you’re calling Navy SEALS “sissies”??? That is the ultimate hubris!
A SEAL could sneak up on you and kill you before you were even aware of what was happening.
This is very unfortunate, as is the lost service of many others in our armed forces, teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, police officers and others who have chosen not to receive COVID vaccinations. I’m not opposed to the COVID vaccine(s), but the vast government overreach is apparent. When smallpox vaccinations were mandated, the fatality rate was about 30 percent. That’s significantly different than a virus with a less than 1.5 percent fatality rate (and it’s difficult to find accurate information since some deaths have been reported as COVID-related or “after contracting COVID” or “tested positive for COVID.”). No vaccine is 100 percent safe either. Every life is valuable. But, we won’t be able to create a utopia where no one dies. Heart disease and cancer kill way more than COVID. Should the government outlaw fast food, smoking (including marijuana), barbequing, obesity and blackened salmon?
There is no vaccine, yet, for cancer or heart disease. When there is one, we should all take it. Go to: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/by-age/months-12-23.html for a list of jabs a child should have up to age 18; this is routine. As an example, by age two a child should have had 1st dose for chickenpox, 4th dose for diptheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, 4th dose for haemophilus inflenzae, 1st dose for measles, mumps, and rubella, 3rd dose for polio, 4th dose for pneumococcal, 1st dose for hepatitis A, 3rd dose for hepatitis B, and a flu shot every year. The reason these horrible diseases aren’t prevalent in our country is mostly that we vaccinate people against them. Notice that we don’t just give one shot, but several over time.
When I contracted measles as a child, the health department put a large red sign on the front of our house “QUARANTINE.” No one was allowed in or out for a couple of weeks. After a vaccine was developed, quarantining was no longer needed. The three approved vaccines for covid 19 are safe, and not experimental. I remember my first polio vaccine. All the kids in town lined up on a Saturday and received a drop of the vaccine on a sugar cube which we then lit melt in our mouths. The shots came later.
Keep up with your tetenus shots every 10 years. We were all taught to worry about rusty nails and puncture wounds, but you can get it from insect bites and any break in the skin like a small cut.
Bob One, you said “should” take the vaccines. Probably most have taken many vaccines, as have I. That’s different than mandating them.
And, as Overreach asked, should the government outlaw fatty foods, barbecuing, smoking, sugar and obesity?
Isn’t personal responsibility an issue at some point?
Should Washington and Sacramento bureaucrats make our medical decisions for us?
I haven’t got no tetnis shot in a very long time. I normally experience insect bites and cuts from rusty pieces of metal. I ain’t died yet. Perhaps you fancy people lives are to soft for you immune system to have any combat experience.
Why use a photo of Army (?) guys running on the beach instead of sailors/SEALS? Is Coronado still in California?
will be interesting to see what may
happen if “they” piss off the wrong
seal(s)