{"id":880301,"date":"2021-10-14T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=880301"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:44:43","slug":"judge-partially-blocks-democrat-governors-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-partially-blocks-democrat-governors-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Partially Blocks Democrat Governor\u2019s Vaccine Mandate For Health Care Workers\u00a0"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fjudge-partially-blocks-democrat-governors-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers%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=880301&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 federal judge on Tuesday partially blocked New York\u2019s vaccine mandate for health care and long-term care workers throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>Utica Judge David Hurd blocked the state from firing health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the vaccine mandate, which was first issued in August by disgraced then-Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and later enforced by his replacement, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Health is barred from taking any action, disciplinary or otherwise, against the licensure, certification, residency, admitting privileges or other professional status or qualification of any of the plaintiffs on account of their seeking or having obtained a religious exemption from mandatory COVID-19 vaccination,\u201d Hurd wrote in his ruling, Spectrum News <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/ny-state-of-politics\/2021\/10\/12\/judge-sides-with-health-care-workers-seeking-religious-exemption-to-vaccinations\">reported<\/a>, adding, \u201cAt the same time, state health officials cannot act against health care employers who accept religious exemptions as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to The Daily Wire, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Stephen Crampton blasted the liberal state government for \u201cignoring the United States Constitution, its Amendments, and the Civil Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very clearly a decision supporting the constitutional rights of these medical workers whose requests for religious exemption to the vaccine mandate were rejected by Governor Hochul and her administration,\u201d Crampton said of Hurd\u2019s ruling. \u201cNew York seems to be dead set on ignoring the United States Constitution, its Amendments, and the Civil Rights Act. We are pleased that Judge Hurd has seen fit to put an immediate halt to that gubernatorial overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara, lead counsel in the case against the state, commented,&nbsp;\u201cWith this decision the court rightly recognized that yesterday\u2019s \u2018front line heroes\u2019 in dealing with COVID cannot suddenly be treated as disease-carrying villains and kicked to the curb by the command of a state health bureaucracy. Some of these plaintiffs contracted COVID while treating patients, recovered, and were allowed to return to work with the same protective measures that were good enough for the 18 months that they were the heroes in the battle against the virus. There is no \u2018science\u2019 to show that these same measures are suddenly inadequate \u2013 especially when they are allowed for those with medical exemptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-gov-hochul-says-un-vaxxed-christians-arent-listening-to-god-god-wants-you-vaccinated\">sparked<\/a> fury when she said during a church service that Christians who are not vaccinated against COVID \u201caren\u2019t listening to God,\u201d adding that God wants them vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I know you\u2019re vaccinated, you\u2019re the smart ones, but you know there\u2019s people out there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Tuesday partially blocked New York\u2019s vaccine mandate for health care and long-term care workers throughout the state.Utica Judge David Hurd blocked the state from firing health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the vaccine mandate, which was first issued in August by disgraced then-Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and later enforced by his replacement, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY).\u201cThe Department of Health is barred from taking any action, disciplinary or otherwise, against the licensure, certification, residency, admitting privileges or other professional status or qualification of any of the plaintiffs on account of their seeking or having obtained a religious exemption from mandatory COVID-19 vaccination,\u201d Hurd wrote in his ruling, Spectrum News reported, adding, \u201cAt the same time, state health officials cannot act against health care employers who accept religious exemptions as well.\u201dIn a statement sent to The Daily Wire, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Stephen Crampton blasted the liberal state government for \u201cignoring the United States Constitution, its Amendments, and the Civil Rights Act.\u201d\u201cThis is very clearly a decision supporting the constitutional rights of these medical workers whose requests for religious exemption to the vaccine mandate were rejected by Governor Hochul and her administration,\u201d Crampton said of Hurd\u2019s ruling. \u201cNew York seems to be dead set on ignoring the United States Constitution, its Amendments, and the Civil Rights Act. We are pleased that Judge Hurd has seen fit to put an immediate halt to that gubernatorial overreach.\u201dThomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara, lead counsel in the case against the state, commented,\u00a0\u201cWith this decision the court rightly recognized that yesterday\u2019s \u2018front line heroes\u2019 in dealing with COVID cannot suddenly be treated as disease-carrying villains and kicked to the curb by the command of a state health bureaucracy. Some of these plaintiffs contracted COVID while treating patients, recovered, and were allowed to return to work with the same protective measures that were good enough for the 18 months that they were the heroes in the battle against the virus. There is no \u2018science\u2019 to show that these same measures are suddenly inadequate \u2013 especially when they are allowed for those with medical exemptions.\u201dBack in September, Hochul sparked fury when she said during a church service that Christians who are not vaccinated against COVID \u201caren\u2019t listening to God,\u201d adding that God wants them vaccinated.\u201cYes, I know you\u2019re vaccinated, you\u2019re the smart ones, but you know there\u2019s people out there who aren\u2019t listening to God and what God wants,\u201d Hochul said at a Christian Cultural Center service. \u201cYou know this; you know who they are.\u201d\u201cI\u00a0need you to be my apostles; I need you to go out and talk about it, and say, we owe this to each other,\u201d the Democrat continued. \u201cWe love each other. Jesus taught us to love one another \u2014 and how do you show that love but to care about each other enough to say, please get vaccinated because I love you. I want you to live.\u201dRelated:\u00a0Democrat Gov. Hochul Says Un-Vaxxed Christians \u2018Aren\u2019t Listening To God,\u2019 \u2018God Wants\u2019 You\u00a0VaccinatedThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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