A federal appeals court has ruled that the city of San Francisco must rehire employees who were fired from their jobs because they refused to take the Covid-19 shot, reversing a lower court decision.
In a unanimous ruling issued Thursday, a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that San Francisco must rehire employees who were terminated from their jobs because they declined to comply with a mandate requiring all city employees to take the Covid-19 injection. The appellants in the case, Selina Keene and Melody Fountila, objected to taking the Covid-19 shot on religious grounds.
While Keene and Fountila were listed as the appellants, more than 100 others were also named as plaintiffs. The defendants were the city and county of San Francisco, Mayor London Breed, and the heads of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
The circuit court panel opinion cited the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, which struck down Covid-19 worship restrictions imposed by the state of New York when asserting that “the Supreme Court has recognized that the loss of protected religious freedoms, ‘for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.’”
“Appellants’ coerced decision between their faith and their livelihood imposed emotional damage which cannot now be fully undone,” stated the panel ruling.
“[San Francisco’s] finding that Appellants’ religious beliefs were insufficient to warrant any accommodations can only be described as a ‘dignitary affront’ … The circumstances surrounding Appellants’ termination constitute irreparable harm….”
From the Christian Post
Those that were fired for refusing Covid shots on religious grounds should be rehired immediately. The federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the employees who were fired. The federal appeals court got it right once and for all.
I agree 100%! I am also thrilled over President Trump’s executive order to save women’s sports! Tonight at 9pm Eastern time, Riley Gaines will speak about this triumph on FOX news, with Sean Hannity.
Lucky them. Enough brave and reasonable people chose to receive the vaccine so that they could be safe.
Brave and reasonable folks also don’t impose on their neighbors’ rights. However valid the current scientific consensus (it was never complete, and BTW I have a Chemistry MS and 41 years experience teaching science), the right to advise does not become the power to give an order.
Remember: the same scientific community that spend years building meticulous protocols to test vaccines for safety and efficacy tore those up in the rush for a COVID solution, then told us “no problems”. Really? Then why the protocols (presumably to forestall problems) in the first place?
“It’s an emergency!”
OK, got it. Then make the vaccines voluntary, since recipients are taking a risk the discarded protocols were intended to forestall. Human beings cannot be a means to someone else’s end. (It’s too much to go into the ethics of using stuff tested on aborted children here).
What is the source of the cells used to test the batches of the vaccine doses that “brave and reasonable people” believe everyone must receive?
Trump is racking up the wins, and it’s only been three weeks. Amazing time to be alive.
Trump is doing more good for the world than any Catholic hierarch. Gen Z are all becoming MAGAs because of Trump, but they want nothing to do with church. Liberalism is dead.
It’s like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentines Day, Fourth of July, New Year’s, the first day of summer vacation and Groundhogs Day all in one.
I know President Trump said we would get tired of winning.
I didn’t believe that was possible.
But the man hasn’t been wrong yet, who knows.
MAGA
Baloney! There is no one size fits all medication for everyone. Every person’s allergies are different. I have never taken a COVID shot and have not gotten COVID. I told my healthcare providers years ago that I would not take anything connected to cells from aborted babies, and they honored that request. The only shots I have had are those not connected to stem cells from abortions – the ethical version of the shingles shot, the tetanus and the two pneumonia shots. Flu shots are not connected to aborted stem cells, but I never felt the need to get them — just did not get the flu. With right eating, vitamins and other ethical medication when needed, I have done just fine.
You’ll also avoid getting turbocancer since you didn’t get the clot shot.
Another thing that might help is that I still have my tonsils which filter out a lot of throat diseases. In the 1940s when polio was the latest plague, for some reason taking out the tonsils was the new fad. It was discovered many years later that those who had tonsils at that time were less likely to get polio or got it very lightly. God gave us each of our body parts for a reason, and doctors need to find out why before taking them out unnecessarily. I also have my appendix.
Another thing I do is have my throat blessed on St. Blaise Day or do a novena at that time asking for protection against diseases of the throat.
This post of mine was meant for the poster Pro-science, Feb. 6 at 2:56 pm. When my healthcare provider tells me I need a shot, I go to the “Children of God for Life” website and see if it is ethical. I only take one shot at a time, which puts less stress on the body. Giving children five shots at a time (usually in two or three combinations) as at least one doctor did, is unethical.
To Anne TE: “I also have my appendix.”
Me too! But over the years I’ve lost my Table of Contents and half my Index.
Love you humor! God bless.
They have also found out that a healthy appendix helps the immune system. Fibers seems to keep the appendix in good condition. What a wonderful “machine” our bodies are.