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.
Oh, it's absolutely a human cell. Just not one that was pulled from a dead human, nor one that could ever develop into its own human.
Believe it or not, I am philosophically pro-life, despite being liberal on most other issues.
If the argument is that you don't support killing babies for medical research, that's fine. But a cloned cell is just a cell with human DNA that was grown in a lab. The "evil" was done a long time ago and had nothing to do with the scientists who use these cloned cells for vaccines, nor anything to do with the people who no longer have to suffer polio or mumps because of these vaccines.
It's just a bit more technical of a distinction than it appears to be.
So the cell is derived by way of an aborted fetal cell. This is the transitive property. The timing of the "evil" is of no concern; the origin of the cell is of concern. Do you think a vegan would agree to eat a hamburger from cloned meat from a cow that was slaughtered in the 70s?
Actually, yes, I do. That's a huge appeal for vegetarians and lab-grown meat. Because the problem isn't just the individual life, but the means by which we're obtaining our meat through constant slaughter. Lab-grown meat means that the slaughter stops.
We couldn't find a way to create these vaccines without the fetal cell lines, but we certainly didn't need to benefit from any new abortions. We could be abortion-free right now and still have access to the vaccines made possible by fetal tissue.
You can't unring a bell, but you can play new music around it.