oThis morning I opened my email to see that I was granted an exemption from my employers requirement of the Covid-inspired mRNA injectable product.
I need to thank this community as I could not have done it on my own.
Over the last month or so I copied a piece from a post here, a segment from someone's comment there and was able to craft an assertion of religious objection that was well sourced, accurate, and most importantly - true to my sincerely held beliefs as a Christian.
I work at a University in the Northeast US which is extremely leftwing, some of our top administrators actually openly worked for the Biden/Harris campaign and all our leadership donates bigly to left wing extremist house/senate members.
So, I was fully expecting my application to be denied, but by the grace of God it was accepted and I will not be losing my job due to my un-injected status.
I am however aggressively looking for a new non-jabby job because f*ck them for attempting this in the first place.
WWG1WGA
EDIT: To answer some questions. My school had a deadline of the end of August so I submitted last week to give me some time to bail if denied.
I do not have a copy of what exactly was written as it went into an online form and I did not back it up onto a word doc or anything. It was brief and essentially I said that I was a Christian and taking an injection that has or uses fetal cell tissues goes against my sincerely held beliefs. I don't remember the link now but it can be searched for that shows which ones have it in the shot and which ones used fetal cells in the testing phase. I didn't quote any Bible verses or anything like that since I learned from videos I saw that it is not necessary, the only requirement you need is that you have a sincerely held religious belief so the less you say the better.
Sadly our military members are not going to be able to use the religious exemption due to already taking vaccines in the past. At least, this is the case with a friend of mine that went before the board yesterday. They only have 2 more years left that they are obligated to the military. If the vaccine becomes mandatory and you don't get the shot, it is automatic UCMJ because of disobeying a lawful order, or court martial. The religious exemption will be out the window because during their military career they have been vaccinated. Pretty much if they have been vaccinated then there is not exception to the COVID, and the religious exemption packet has a 99.9% of being kicked back. By the time it becomes mandatory, then they would have to decide to stay, which implies getting the vaccine because it is approved, or retire, as the DoD will give them 180 days to start the process. The problem they have is that they still owe the Army two more years because of the Quality Retention Program, so if they decide to retire, then they may run the possibility of their packet being kicked back because of those two years left.
The last resource would be to reluctantly get the vaccine. They are struggling emotionally with this.
Past injections are irrelevant, one can adopt a religious belief at any time. I have had every vax growing up and didn't know what was in them. Once I started looking into them and became a Christian a few years ago I haven't taken any since if they are objectionable to my standards.