No major religious denomination in the U.S. opposes vaccination outright. But an individual’s “sincerely held” religious belief does not have to be part of an organized-religion mandate to be considered a valid reason for exemption from getting the vaccine.
“It can be a personal, sincerely held religious belief which arises from the very nature of freedom of religion articulated in the First Amendment,” Domenique Camacho Moran, a labor attorney at New York-based law firm Farrell Fritz, told CBS MoneyWatch this week.
The Biden administration’s broad prevention measures announced Thursday expand vaccine mandates further, affecting roughly 100 million Americans and shining a new light on exemption claims and how employers can verify their legitimacy.
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