Vaccine Mandates Sow Mass Chaos Throughout Military As Service Members Seek Religious Accommodations
'The Biden administration does not care about religious freedom. Instead, this appears to be an attempted ideological purge of our military.'
Kylee Zempel
By Kylee Zempel
November 18, 2021
Mixed messages from the higher-ups, unclear repercussions for refusal, a disparity in treatment among different states and branches of the military, a range of deadlines, and goalpost-shifting on the meaning of religious exemptions have converged to create mass chaos throughout the military as tens of thousands of yet-unvaccinated service members grapple with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and many seek exemptions.
The Pentagon has promised that these requests for accommodation, which are mostly religious but include some medical, will be considered on a “case-by-case” basis, but that assurance provides no clarity about the military’s subjective process for assessing the sincerity of religious belief. Nor does it grant hope to the many unvaccinated members of the Armed Forces whose personal convictions are presently being scrutinized and might be disregarded.
Vaccination Rates and Deadlines Vary
Deadlines are all over the place. The Air Guard and Reserve deadline is Dec. 2, with a Marine Corps and Navy deadline of Nov. 28 and a deadline for Army soldiers of Dec. 15. The date for Army National Guard and Reserve isn’t until June 30, 2022.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/18/vaccine-mandates-sow-mass-chaos-throughout-military-as-service-members-seek-religious-accommodations/
