{"id":821047,"date":"2021-09-27T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=821047"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:58:33","slug":"new-york-governor-denies-legitimacy-of-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-governor-denies-legitimacy-of-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Governor Denies Legitimacy Of Religious Exemptions To Vaccine"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnew-york-governor-denies-legitimacy-of-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine%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=821047&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--><div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul denied Monday that there are \u201clegitimate religious exemptions\u201d to the COVID-19 vaccine.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThere are not legitimate religious exemptions because the leaders of all the organized religions have said there\u2019s no legitimate reason,\u201d the governor said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. employers are required to accommodate their employee\u2019s \u201csincerely held\u201d religious beliefs.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul denied Monday that there are \u201clegitimate religious exemptions\u201d to the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are not legitimate religious exemptions because the leaders of all the organized religions have said there\u2019s no legitimate reason,\u201d the governor told reporters during a Monday morning briefing, \u201cand we\u2019re going to win that in court in a matter of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor was referring to a lawsuit filed by&nbsp;a group of 17 health professionals represented by the Thomas More Society against New York and Hochul. The lawsuit accused the state of violating Title VII and Constitutional rights through its vaccination mandate and by disavowing religious exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/526685623\/Judge-Grants-Restraining-Order-To-Medical-Workers-Suing-Hochul-NY-Over-Religious-Objections\">granted a temporary restraining order<\/a> to the medical workers Sept. 14, barring the New York Department of Health \u201cfrom interfering in any way with the granting of religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination going forward.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/18\/cnn-religious-covid-vaccine-exemptions\/\">(RELATED: CNN Expert Wants Biden Admin To Create \u2018Guidelines\u2019 To Weed Out Fake Religious Vaccine Exemptions)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat New York is attempting to do is slam shut an escape hatch from an unconstitutional vaccine mandate,\u201d Thomas More Society Special Counsel attorney Christopher Ferrara&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/new-york-health-workers-ask-federal-court-for-relief-from-compulsory-covid-vaccines\/\">said in a Sept. 14 statement<\/a>. \u201cAnd they are doing this while knowing that many people have sincere religious objections to vaccines that were tested, developed, or produced with cell lines derived from aborted children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View New York Medical Workers Sue New York Over Religious Exemptions on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/525289570\/Health-Care-Worker-Lawsuit-Against-State#from_embed\">New York Medical Workers Su\u2026<\/a> by <a title=\"View Mary Margaret Olohan&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/506904746\/Mary-Margaret-Olohan#from_embed\">Mary Margaret Olohan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-health-religion-los-angeles-arkansas-3ba53f2f00e1ab7105d7d128f2b1e65d\">Thousands of Americans<\/a> are seeking religious exemptions to vaccine mandates, citing reports that some of the vaccines were developed using aborted fetal cell lines. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. employers are required to accommodate their employee\u2019s \u201csincerely held\u201d religious beliefs \u2014 including potential religious objections to a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Hochul told reporters that she was unaware \u201cof a sanctioned religious exemption from any organized religion,\u201d dismissing the idea that healthcare workers could be religiously exempt from the state\u2019s vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"m_-8520364800846946101DefaultParagraphFont\">To the extent that there\u2019s leadership of different religious organizations that have spoken, and they have, I\u2019m not aware of a sanctioned religious exemption from any organized religion,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cIn fact, they\u2019re encouraging the opposite. They\u2019re encouraging their members, everybody from the&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">Pope<\/span>&nbsp;on down, is encouraging people to get vaccinated.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"m_-8520364800846946101DefaultParagraphFont\">So people will say what they choose.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Roger Severino told the Daily Caller News Foundation at the time that neither the governor of New York nor or any employer has the authority to tell an individual what he or she believes.<\/p>\n<p>If an employer rebutted the religious objection of a Catholic employee by pointing out that the pope urged Catholics to get vaccinated, Severino told the DCNF, that would amount to religious discrimination. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/religious-exemption-objection-vaccine\/\">(RELATED: Vaccine Inquisitions? As COVID Vaccination Mandates Increase, Religious Exemptions Come Under Fire)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor employers to say, \u2018you are wrong\u2019 about your own beliefs is a) arrogant and b) discriminatory because people are entitled to their own religious beliefs,\u201d Severino said. \u201cEven if they disagree with their own religious leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic institutions should not act like inquisitorial boards, quizzing people\u2019s religious beliefs and trying to find holes because somebody has a different view of things,\u201d said Severino, who is the former director of the Office of Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).&nbsp; \u201cIf separation of church and state means anything, it means that state institutions don\u2019t second guess to try to resolve religious truths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/laws\/guidance\/section-12-religious-discrimination#h_9546543277761610748655186\">warns that<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cwhether or not a religious belief is sincerely held by an applicant or employee is rarely at issue in many types of Title VII religious claims.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the commission nor the courts should \u201cbe in the business of deciding whether a person holds religious beliefs for the \u2018proper\u2019 reasons,\u201d the guidance said, but they may examine whether the individual\u2019s motives or reasons for holding the belief.&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Gov. 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