My college has over the course of one week gone from requiring a 7 day quarantine for unvaccinated students to saying that all students and faculty must be vaccinated or apply for a medical or religious exemption. Now at this point, I imagine those applications will probably get shredded because communists, but I would greatly appreciate any sources that I could be directed towards to help with knowing what aspects of the covid vaccine to claim are against my religion (Catholic). Thank you.
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Aborted fetal cells were used to develop the vaccine. I don't have any source handy to share, but a quick search should give you sources on that. It's been verified. Note in your request that, as a Catholic, the use of aborted fetal cells is "against your sincerely held religious beliefs".
It's important to use the term in quotes, because "sincerely held religious beliefs" is the way religious exemptions are discussed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - which is the law that creates your ability to get an exemption in the first place.
I am a VP of HR - any time we receive a request that includes this verbiage it is definitely going to be approved, because it shows us the employee either really did their research well, or they have a lawyer. I imagine it's the same when a school evaluates a religious accommodation request.
Good luck!
Thank you very much for the terminology.