{"id":1639524,"date":"2022-09-12T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639524"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:04:47","slug":"significant-proof-air-force-has-discriminated-against-troops-seeking-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandate-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/significant-proof-air-force-has-discriminated-against-troops-seeking-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandate-court\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Significant Proof\u2019 Air Force Has Discriminated Against Troops Seeking Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate: Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsignificant-proof-air-force-has-discriminated-against-troops-seeking-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandate-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-air-force\">Air Force<\/a> members seeking religious exemptions from the U.S. military\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19-vaccine-mandate\">COVID-19 vaccine mandate<\/a> have provided \u201csignificant proof\u201d that the military branch has discriminated against them, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. district court in July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/court-blocks-biden-admin-from-punishing-unvaccinated-air-force-members_4599543.html\">blocked the mandate<\/a> for thousands of Air Force members who remain unvaccinated and have had their religious exemptions denied or not acted upon. In response, the government asked for an emergency stay. When that was denied, the government went to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, arguing that the ruling was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>An appeals court panel said in its decision released Monday that plaintiffs had to provide significant proof that the Air Force had a policy to deny all requests for religious exemptions, and all indications are that they have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo establish a general policy \u2026 the plaintiffs need not show that the Department rejects 100% of requests for religious exemptions. And the Department\u2019s own statistics show that, as of May 23, 2022, it had rejected more than 99% of them,\u201d U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22284415-appeals-court-order-on-air-force-mandate\">in the 11-page order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the Department has granted only a comparative handful of religious exemptions, while granting thousands of medical and administrative ones, is itself at this stage of the case significant proof of discrimination,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kethledge was joined by Circuit Judges Eric Murphy and John K. Bush, both Trump appointees.<\/p>\n<p> Plaintiffs <\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are all members who sought religious exemptions and were deemed by chaplains to hold sincere religious beliefs, but the military rejected many of their requests anyways. The others haven\u2019t received final decisions but expect to be rejected, based on the treatment of like-minded airmen.<\/p>\n<p>The group has said that evidence shows the military systemically denied requests for religious exemptions, denying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force members seeking religious exemptions from the U.S. military\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have provided \u201csignificant proof\u201d that the military branch has discriminated against them, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 12. A U.S. district court in July blocked the mandate for thousands of Air Force members who remain unvaccinated and have had their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}