sample letter for religious exemption from vaccines

Sample letter for religious exemption from vaccines free#

As Christians, it is our duty to bear witness to the world by not accepting these vaccines and medicines.” Likewise, citing Tobit 2:21 as binding Biblical authority, Father Michael Copenhagen has stated, “the recipient is an immediate participant in the commission of continuous theft of human remains obtained through deliberate killing, their desecration through exploitation and trafficking, as well as ultimate omission to respectfully bury them.” As one Christian scholar has stated, “when we use vaccines or medicines which utilize cell lines originating from aborted babies, we physically benefit from the ‘fruits’ of one of the greatest evils of mankind - the cruel genocide of the unborn. The use of abortion tainted vaccines conflicts with longstanding and well recognized anti-abortion religious teaching. And Johnson & Johnson uses fetal cell lines in vaccine development, confirmation and production.” “All PER.C6 cells used to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are descended from tissue taken from a … elective abortion”.) (last visited August 10, 2021).

All available Covid vaccines utilize abortion-derived cell lines in either the confirmation and testing stage of development or in the production process.īoth Pfizer and Moderna vaccines “used the fetal cell line HEK 293 in the confirmation phase,” while the Johnson & Johnson vaccines utilizes the “PER.C6 fetal cell line cells” “to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.” See (last visited August 10, 2021) (“Pfizer and Moderna did perform confirmation tests… using fetal cell lines. Primarily, my beliefs regarding the sanctity of human life conflict directly with any requirement to inject abortion-tainted vaccinations into my body.

Finally, when it comes to consuming things into our body as opposed to, say, making payments to the government, compliance with God’s law above all is required.

The body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit and we, as Christians, are compelled to protect it from defilement.

There is a moral duty to refuse the use of medical products, including certain vaccines, that are created using human cell lines derived from abortion during any stage of the vaccine’s development, including the testing phase of development of a medical product.

My sincerely held religious beliefs requiring the accommodation include the following Biblical commands and principled Christian teachings: Proclamation 21-14 specifically provides that even “Health Care Providers and Workers for State Agencies are not required to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they are entitled under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), or any other applicable law to a disability-related reasonable accommodation or a sincerely held religious belief accommodation to the requirements of this order…”.

Sample letter for religious exemption from vaccines free#

I request this exemption and accommodation under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), and Section 2 of Governor Inslee’s Proclamation 21-14, based upon my sincerely held religious beliefs. I am a Christian seeking religious exemption from the “Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement” imposed by either Proclamation 21-14 or by you, my employer.