In case you haven’t noticed, religious vaccine exemptions are getting harder to come by: Paperwork, interrogations (i.e. “interviews”), the third-degree … it’s quite a process. Some states are abolishing the religious exemption altogether — because people are using them and Merck needs to make as much money as they possibly can and can’t have your religious views getting in the way.
Some lucky parents are getting called to the rug to defend their religious beliefs in front of a panel of people who have probably never even heard of Jesus and whose sole purpose in life is to trip them up with tricky questions designed by vaccine enthusiasts to rob people of their rights. Gone are the days where you could just Google, “vaccine religious exemption letter” and change the greeting at the top. Getting your school to serve a lunch that’s fit for human consumption is easier than getting a vaccine exemption. That was … until this post hit the scene.
Over the years, I’ve read and critiqued hundreds of religious exemptions, educated numerous pastors, prepped parents for their meetings with schools, legislators, and doctors, have advocated for the rights of people everywhere to have the right to obtain one, and have helped people obtain religious exemptions in states with the toughest restrictions. Although I can’t guarantee that your religious exemption will be accepted, if it isn’t … it won’t be because you didn’t craft a superb religious argument.
Below is a step-by-step guide designed to help you understand the religious exemption and craft a strong letter.
Step #1: Find out what type of vaccine exemptions your state offers.
There is this prevailing lie circulating that your child can’t go to school unless they’re vaccinated. This simply isn’t true. There are three possible vaccine exemptions: medical, religious, and philosophical exemptions.
The medical exemption can be obtained if your child has a documented reaction to a vaccine — unless you live in a state governed by an oppressive regime like New York and California. In these states, vaccine adverse reactions don’t exist and your child could almost die and you still won’t get one.
The religious exemption can be obtained if you have a bona fide objection to vaccines based on your “deeply held religious beliefs.” There are only four states whose politicians love money more than Jesus, so unless you belong to one of those states, you’re entitled to a religious exemption. Period.
The states that do not allow religious exemptions include, California, West Virginia, Mississippi, Maine, and New York.
The philosophical exemption allows an individual to get an exemption based on any number of belief-based grounds. Vegan? Exemption. Bad for your astrological sign? Exemption. Have an aversion to injecting toxins and monkey products? Exemption. Don’t want your child to live the rest of their life with a catastrophic medical condition? Exemption.
There’s also a fourth kind of “quasi-exemption” called a “serological” exemption. If you can prove your child has had the disease naturally (chicken pox for example) or that they still have the temporary junk immunity given from the last round of vaccines, they can get out of having that specific vaccine. This requires a blood titers test to show sufficient proof of antibodies.
To find out which exemptions your state allows, click here. (Note, you won’t find a serological exemption listed because hardly anyone talks about it, so consider yourself “in the know.”)
Step #2: If your child is in private school, find out what their stance is on exemptions.
There are a lot of private schools that supposedly do not offer exemptions or are making them almost impossible to get. Ironically, these aren’t Montessori and Waldorf schools — they are your private, religious schools. If you’re dealing with a school that says your can’t get a religious exemption (but you know your state offers them), call their bluff and ask for the school’s policy. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the person telling you the school doesn’t offer an exemption doesn’t even know what an exemption is or has a bias against parents who’ve done their research. If there’s a policy or a exemption process involved, find out what it is.
Step #3: Throw Out the Story. Throw in the Law.
Here’s the biggest mistake I see in people’s religious letters: too much story and not enough facts. A religious letter is not the place for you to tell an emotional story. You want an exemption, not for someone to hand you a box of Kleenex. People are not going to give you a letter based on your ability to drive them to tears and the more you talk, the more you dig yourself into a hole. The next thing you know, you’ve argued for a philosophic exemption that your state doesn’t even offer and your religious exemption is denied.
Don’t get tripped up here. Don’t start talking about faith healing, vaccine injury, your lifestyle, or what God told you during your prayer time. It’s not gonna’ fly. The truth is, you don’t need to convince anyone that you’re legally entitled to an exemption. You have a right to a religious exemption because the LAW in your STATE says you do. So, throw out the story and throw in the law:
Title 77 of the Illinois Administrative Code, Chapter 1, Subchapter i, Part 665, Section 665.510 gives me the right as a parent to object to my child’s vaccinations on religious grounds. Boom.
Step #4: Make your argument for the religious exemption.
Now that you’ve dropped your authority like a boss, it’s time to tell people where to pick it up and set it down. When you write your letter, think of it as an oral argument. Anytime you find yourself talking about anything other than your religious beliefs, start over. No talking about the effects of toxins on the body. No talking about politics. No talking about what happened to your child the last time they were vaccinated (before you or your spouse saw the light). These are arguments for philosophical and medical exemptions. You are applying for a religious exemption so your argument needs to be religion (or Bible) based. Mmm k?
You are objecting to vaccines because you believe in and follow God and the principles laid out in His Word and you have a deeply held belief that vaccines violate them. Now, lay out your supporting argument and drop your verses:
At least 27 vaccines contain cells, cellular debris, protein, and DNA from aborted babies including (but not limited to), Adenovirus, Polio, Dtap/Polio/HiB Combo, Hep A, Hep A/Hep B Combo, MMR, MMRV Pro Quad, Rabies, Varicella, Shingles vaccines, Ebola, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, anthrax, and influenza vaccines. Include a citation on your reference page (a good letter gives homework) to the vaccine package inserts and the CDC’s vaccine additives and adjuvants list.
Next, you’ll drop your denominational or biblical support. Every point you make MUST be supported by scripture and the more you include, the better.
“Thou shalt not murder” (Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:13). Children are recognized from God at the point of conception (Genesis 4:1, Genesis 17, and Jeremiah 1:5), are knit together by God in the womb (Psalm 139:13-16, Psalm 22:10-11, and Galatians 1:15), are blessings from God (Genesis 1:28, Genesis 4:1, Psalms 127:3, and Psalms 113:7-9), are valued and loved (Matthew 18:1-14 and 19:13-15), are created in His image (Genesis 1:27), and their killing is condemned (Psalm 106:35 and Psalm 37-38). The prophet Amos condemns the Ammonites because they “ripped open expectant mothers in Gilead” (Amos 1:13) and child killing was one of the major reasons that God’s anger burned against the Kingdom of Israel bringing about their destruction and exile (2 Kings 17:17-18).
Step #5: Always include this scripture in your religious vaccine exemption.
1 Corinthians 16:19-20 is by far, the most important verse that needs to be referenced in your religious exemption. Why? Because not all vaccines contain aborted baby ingredients and you need to give your argument extra protection in case someone has the mistaken assumption that only two aborted babies have been exploited to make vaccines (as if that’s okay), and to cover your objections to the vaccines that don’t contain these ingredients. This verse also explains one of the many reasons “why” you cannot use vaccines that contain aborted baby ingredients.
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies (1 Corinthians 16:19-20, NIV).
Vaccines contain neurotoxins, hazardous substances, attenuated viruses, animal parts, foreign DNA, albumin from human blood, carcinogens, and chemical wastes that are proven harmful to the human body.
Not only are the additives in vaccines considered contaminants from a biblical standpoint, the contaminants themselves are often contaminated. In the Bible, blood represented the life force of the human or animal. Human blood was to be kept pure under all circumstances and free of contaminants like animal parts and blood (Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:11, 17:14, Deuteronomy 12:23, Leviticus 17:10, Acts 15:20, and Acts 15:29).
“Since vaccine preparation involves the use of materials of biological origin, vaccines are subject to contamination by micro-organisms. […] The increasing number of target species for vaccines, the diversity of the origin of biological materials and the extremely high number of known and unknown viruses and their constant evolution represent a challenge to vaccine producers and regulatory authorities.”
If you’re going for the works (which is completely optional), you can talk about God being sovereign, a parent’s God-given authority over the care of their children, that intentionally exposing the immunocompromised and others to the live viral shedding that accompanies vaccines or subjecting your child to a risk of chronic disease and even death violates the command to love your neighbor as yourself. And don’t forget to drop in some fun religious verses on sorcery.
Remember, ANYTHING you put in your letter needs to be backed up with scripture.
Step #6: Don’t get tripped up.
A lot of schools are moving to some sort of interview process that will determine whether or not they grant your exemption. They’ll ask you some fun questions like what religion you practice so they can trip you up with a canned statement from your denomination. They’ll ask you if you’re opposed to other forms of medical intervention you’ve probably used like x-rays and medications. They’ll ask if you’re opposed to blood transfusions, if your child has been vaccinated before, or if you realize you’re going to kill someone should your child get the chicken pox and spread it to a bunch of vaccinated people.
Here’s how you sum up the answers to every question you’ll face in 5-minutes or less:
- When you are challenged by the viewpoint of a denomination, pastor, publication, or atheist authority, state that you do not worship any pastor, church, religious publication, or denomination, and that many religious denominations and Christian publications have a misguided and unbiblical stance on vaccines. If they advocate for the particular views of a pastor, state that a pastor’s personal stance on vaccines (unless it supports yours) is irrelevant because pastors do not learn about the biblical implications of vaccinating during seminary and that a pastor isn’t God.
- Yeah, you’re Catholic. The Pontifical Academy for Life has strongly condemned the development of vaccines from fetal tissues but acknowledges a parent may still be justified in vaccinating their child. However, they also support a parent’s right to consciously object to vaccines that contain aborted fetal ingredients and do not support mandatory vaccines because it results in moral coercion of the conscience and usurps the God-given authority of a parent. Boom.
- Have you or your child ever had an x-ray, taken a medication, or had a surgical procedure? (Do not answer “yes.” State your explanation instead.) There’s a big difference between treating a body that is sick and giving a healthy body something that could harm it, and you are not aware of anything regarding x-rays or the medications your already sick child had that inherently violated scripture.
- Do you believe in blood transfusions? If you don’t, you’re good. If you do (or don’t have a stance), then state that blood transfusions are typically given to save the life of an already seriously injured or dying person, that you have never been in the position where you have had to make an informed decision, and to your knowledge, there are no aborted baby ingredients in the blood being given. (Now, you could get tripped up if someone tries to differentiate between contamination with someone’s blood and contamination with vaccine ingredients. I would turn the conversation back to the topic at hand and state that a deep theological conversation about blood transfusions goes beyond the scope of the discussion surrounding your legal right to a vaccine exemption.)
- Are you against organ donations? If the answer is yes, then you’re good. If it’s no, then simply state that the two situations aren’t comparable because organ donors give consent.
- Why was your child vaccinated in the past? I vaccinated my kid once upon a time and then I met Jesus. Let me introduce you.
- Oh, but there were just two babies used in the process of making those vaccines and it was a really long time ago. Even if that were true (it’s not), that doesn’t make it acceptable from a biblical standpoint. Even though there may be only one cell line in the actual vaccine, numerous aborted babies were used to derive that perfect cell line and even more are being tested on to replace it and to manufacture new vaccines.
- Yeah, but God says, “love your neighbor as yourself.” God also throughout His Word, shows us countless ways to do that. Not one of them includes murdering unborn children, injecting viruses into each other, shooting our kids up with carcinogens, assaulting “perfectly good” immune systems, or subjecting immunocompromised individuals to live viral vaccine shedding.
- “But the Bible says we should submit to governing authority.” Yeah, but the governing authority gives me the right to a religious exemption (cite your statute again for their enjoyment) and you are to submit to God over governing authority. (Cite your verse.)
- But what about measles?! Schmeasle measles. The Bible says we shouldn’t make decisions based on fear and aint’ nobody scared of a rash.
There you have it: how to get a vaccine religious exemption like a boss.Click To Tweet
You get where I’m going with this: If your state gives you the right to a religious exemption, go get it. Know your statutes, drop your verses, and print out your letter for anyone you may be speaking with and include a reference page. You’re never too old for homework and we’re saving rights lives here. Keep it short, sweet, and to the point. If someone gives you a hard time, go up the chain of command and don’t take no for an answer.
There you have it: how to get a religious exemption like a boss. Now go get it!
Here are a few posts that might help you craft your religious exemption:
God Does Not Support Vaccines
What You Didn’t Know About Aborted Baby Parts in Your Vaccines
My employer is making it mandatory to receive vaccines/boosters. I have been employed in the medical field for 10+ years in Texas and have until August 30th to submit a “RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION TO REQUIRED IMMUNIZATION(S)”.
Is there a specific way to get a religious leader/clergy representative to sign the form? I’m Catholic btw, have no idea where to begin.
It’s requesting for me to; Provide detailed information that supports the reason(s) this individual is prohibited from receiving the required immunization(s) (please attach any additional supporting documentation to this form),
Form must be completed by Religious Leader or Appointed Clergy Representative.
Any, and all help is appreciated since it’s my first time dealing with this matter and most likely will lose my job but would like to attempt anyways.
Hi guys,
As you all know I have been helping people get religious exemptions for a couple of years now and it seems like MY religious exemption has been removed and that My Son is Banned from his Public School starting on July 1st, 2019 because of New York Assembly Bill 2371A…it bans religious exemptions.
So there are a couple of ways to fight it.. one is to challenge part 310 of New York State Education Law with the Commissioner of Education in Albany NY.
The forms are very specific for bringing an Petition Against my school board…and mostly requires a Lawyer to do it..but…what if…I get arrested?
Ok check this out. I go to the school WITH my son and they arrest me for trespassing or whatever it is that happens when you break the law.
SO I am thinking of getting arrested like ROSA PARKS!!!!
I can call out the media, set up the date and time for everyone to be with me at the school like say VOTING booth or something and get arrested for my RELIGIOUS BELIEF!!!
Kewl eh??
Is this what you really are going to do? What are the options? I’m with you Yashi!
K
As I see it, here are my options. Rosa Parks could have walked instead of using Public Transit to Transport her to her destination so my son has the right to use Public Education to Transport him to college and me not Home School. This is Discrimination and is against the constitution of New York State section 11. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivisions thereof. No person shall, because of race, color creed or religion be subjected to any discrimination in his or her Civil rights by any other person or by any firm, corporation or institution OR BY THE STATE OR ANY AGENCY OR SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE.
I have a Daughter 17 years old ( I have 2 other children, one healthy , one with chromosome genetic problem)
Severe food allergies and environmental allergies
sleep problems
Taking allergy immunization shots for a year now for her environmental allergies (tree, grass, mold, cat , ragweed).
Growing up, has taken the vaccines shots except the meningococal vaccine.
For more than a year, she disciplined not to eat any outside food, or super processed food or sugary stuff.She have slowly progress , by eating the healthy stuff , she has help herself clean her gut .Brought her own home cook meal she prepared to camps, pot luckls etc..She plan to cook her meals when she goes to college.
Now,she is going to be senior in high school.In Illinois, they require to have meningococal vaccine. She did not have one when she was younger (11-12 years old?)
I am planning to go the route of religious exemption,(which would require a doctors signature) I have tried to talk to her allergist who refuse to give a note exempting her. Her PCP mentioned before that she can exempt her if she gets a note from the allergist.
I am afraid all the hard work she have done to improve her health would be damaged by this vaccine.I believe her chances of being harmed is greater if she gets the vaccine.
She have issues like not being able to fall asleep unless she gets a good exercise. At her age, she should not be have problems going to sleep .
Would they use her having allergy shots to contradicts my request for religious exemption. ?
Thank you for taking time to read
I appreciate this blog website . My daughter is going senior high school and I want to request religious exemption from Meningococal vaccine. which requires a doctors signature ..Growing up,she had all the vaccines done except the meningococal. She is doing allergy immunization shots for a year now for the her environmental allergy . She has severe food allergies and environmental allergy . With God’s almighty mercy she started to eat discipline for more than a year now and clean her gut. Now, I don’t want this vaccine to cause or halt the hard work she have done just to get to this point. She still have issues but getting better. Please help me understand this . I need to write a letter. Would they count taking allergy shots or the other past vaccines she already had. (like MMR DTAP, etc) as contradicting our stand not to do meningococal ?
Yashi here..
Ok I will be making a form letter to respond to the Banning of Religious Exemptions in Public Schools in New York State with use Public Tax Payer Dollars next week for your school when you get the letter from them.
The law may be disputed until June 20 2020. The law should be repealed before then.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
ments to subdivision 7 of section 2164 of the public health law made by
section two of this act shall expire and be deemed repealed June 30,
2020.
It is NOT immediate as they are saying. I will be fighting it along with others in the Religious Community.
For me, this is about Banning a Religious Observance or Practice from a Public School I pay TAXES TO! They are going to BAN my Son from attending a PUBLIC PLACE of PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS that exists with PUBLIC FUNDS derived from TAX Payer dollars only because of a Religious Belief!
They are telling me that I MUST NOT WORSHIP my GOD.
The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
Hi- thank you so much for this article. I’m appalled that it feels like we’re living in a dictatorship. We just received a letter from our school nurse yesterday re: our daughter telling us that the religious exemption we have on file is no longer valid (we live in NY) and she must be vaccinated or cannot attend school. She is adopted and has Down Syndrome. What do we do?
Hi Megan.
I agree with so much of your article. You have made great points.
I would say though that as we are not required by law to state WHAT our religious beliefs are – that we don’t include that in the letter. Vaccines go against many other religions other than “christianity” also.
I have seen things go bad fast when the exact reasons for a religious belief are listed. Once on paper – they can technically question you about it & try to use it against you. If you do not declare your exact religious beliefs – you have a better foot to stand on and they cannot legally ask you what your religious beliefs are.
I think it’s very important for us to band together with religious exemptions – and realize that there are more than just bible believers that object for religious reasons.
Thank you so much for your very helpful article! The letter I had submitted a few years ago became no longer valid with heightened scrutiny from the DoH. Your article gave me the help needed to be able to come up with my own better reasoned-out newer version…!
I am submitting the paperwork for a religious exemption at my job right now. I’m including the verses about our blood remaining pure. However, what about the nasal mist? That is available this year and I wonder if they will come back asking me if I will do that rather than an injection. How do I respond to that?
Thank you!!
IT STILL gets into your blood stream! Anything rubbed on your skin, put up your nose or under your tongue, all goes into your blood stream, Be strong and good wishes to you!
Good job. Here’s your homework. Read Dr. Mayer Eisenstein’s book on vaccines. He was an M.D., and an attorney. He said there is case law regarding personal religious beliefs. Those need stated. They can’t argue with case law already decided.
Good Morning Megan,
Wonderful article. Thank you so much for englighting us with such great information. I have a few questions for you.
I have an 8 year old that I vaccinate until 4 years old but no longer want him to get vaccinated. I also have a 10month old in which I haven’t started to vaccinate nor planning to vaccinate him but my state no longer takes religious exemptions forms. Do you know any other way around this??
Thank you so much for writing this post. I work in the medical field in Canada and I was able to use the references and phrases mentioned in my post to get an exemption for a TB skin test and mandatory vaccines related to my position at the hospital.
Oh hmmm are TB tests cause for concern. I’ve probably had 20-30 at least. and i’m anti vaxx, go figure. But just curious why no TB
Hello Megan. My employer is asking for a letter from a religious leader along with my flu vaccine religious exemption form. I dont believe it is lawful for them to ask for that, but I can’t find it
explicitly stated in the EEOC title 7. I’m looking for proof, legally, that they can not ask me for that. Can you help? Thanks!
My son just started school & his principal is asking for a written statement from an ordained religious official of my church stating that i’m sincere in my beliefs & that my beliefs prohibit my child from being vaccinated along with the new york state DOE request for religious exemption form filled out! can anybody plz help asap since i have to turn this in ASAP or have my son not get an education!!!!!
In the Christian faith and from the Bible, the only religious leader is God, you can’t serve two masters. Humans can’t be leaders/masters, only false idols
Hi! We’re you able to get exempt? I’m going through the same thing for my son with the flu vaccine.
Ok they are quoting from New York State Volume A-1a known as Title 10. If you answer them then they will deny you. But that is not the real law to follow it is New York State Statutory Law 2164. Please research it before you answer them. Do now quote the Bible in New Your State. Email me at [email protected]. I have my exemption for my son in NY State.
Please I need help ASAP I do not where to start with my letter I would greatly appreciate any help in NY State
Yashi Can you please help me with my letter In the Ny State I need to get it in ASAP thank you
No religions deny vaccines, it’s disgusting to claim any do, it’s lying. Thou shalt not lie, every commandment is equal to the others, and breaking it one is breaking them all.
https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
Matt I am sorry you are so angry.
If you would like some history of Religious Freedom then I can help you see things from a different angle without trying to change your mind.
I’ll start you now with James Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments as he presented it to the Virginia Legislative Body in 1785.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
The context of the letter – which is condensed into the second amendment – explains what certain things a Person can or cant believe based on their religion. In this case, instead of being the topic of Immunization it is on the topic of established Religion and tax money. Yes the local churches were sometimes funded with tax dollars, like for food banks and other social needs.
But some people did not want to go to a Presbyterian church cause they were Catholic.
The whole argument boils down to Worship. How one Believes to Worship the Creator in a Personal way. It is called a duty.
Now the “Principle of Worship” remains. Even though a FORMAL religion might believe in using WINE for Communion a different Formal Religion might use Grape Juice. The question is, if your Methodist can you believe that Jesus used WINE at the Last Supper or MUST you believe that Jesus used Grape Juice? Must you believe in Consubstantiation or Transubstantiation?
Neither of these is FOUND in the bible yet many people DIED because they believed one or the other at the WRONG time in history.
Now you have Queen Elizabeth 1 (the first) she said that she did not “desire to be a window into a mans soul”.
Yet it seems like you do. You have passed judgement on us because you do not believe we have the freedom to believe as we do.
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) said this “Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins”.
James Madison put it this way,
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.”
President Donald Trump had Jeff Sessions say it this way on October 6th 2017, https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download
Principle 2 The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s religious belief.
So its a Personal Decision. Now Ganon defined a Religion as.. and you can google, definition of religion and get this… a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
Therefore, if I believe that NOT immunizing my child is of the UTMOST or SUPREME IMPORTANCE to me then it is a Personal Religious BELIEF. If you dont like that then tough. I can not Make you understand in your mind what I believe because its unalienable to you. BUTTTT The LAW gives me the RIGHT to FREELY exercise my religion without TYRANNY!!
But what of the Public Health and Safety as defined in Jacobson V Massachusetts 197 US 11 (1905)? Well though to that too. BECAUSE Civil Rights act 1964 Title VII Subtitle II section 201 says that YOU nor anyone ELSE can stop me from expressing my Religion in a PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION because MY TAX DOLLARS ARE USED FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL!!
I PAY with my TAXES for my child to go to SCHOOL. If your kid is IMMUNIZED against DISEASES then you CANT get a DISEASE from my KID cause YOUR kid is IMMUNE!!!!! or is he really immune? that’s the real LIE!!! They LIE cause your kid is not IMMUNE at ALL! Heck you have to give your kid 2 and 3 “SHOTS” for Immunity that they DONT even have! Let alone they dont even call it IMMUNITY ANYMORE!! They call it…vaccination!!!
My God offers IMMUNITY. Real Immunity Exodus 23:25 says, “Worship The Lord and he will bless your bread and water. I will remove sickness from among you.”
SO Worship The Lord and when you get sick, He will make you better and you will not pass on your sickness to OTHERS! My kid PROTECTS your kid from getting sick because HE worships The Most High God, the Creator. This is Immunity. Not your fake god in a Vile made with Human Hands!
(the flu shot according to the cdc is 66% USELESS) That’s not 100% immunity. After all the CDC’s Motto is 24/7 Saving Lives/Protecting People.
Now my email is [email protected]
Amen!
Matt may I ask if you’re Vegan, environmentalist and Pro-Life? You said that “every commandment is equal to the others, and breaking it one is breaking them all” Thou shalt not Harm/Kill/Murder.
Yes they do. They do not say it in those words cause when these religions were created there was no such thing as vaccines
According to religion the holy one has given u an immune system that’s brilliant and will protect you from disease. Altering your body is going against the holy ones creation
Now obviously I didn’t word it “word for word” but that’s how it goes
Matt,
These people are not lying. They are not stating that their religion “denies vaccines” – they are stating that their personal beliefs, based on their personal religious beliefs, not their denominational beliefs, are guiding them to make the best and best informed decisions for themselves or their dependents. We should all have that right and the freedom to exercise it. Religious denominations do not write their charters with a chapter on medical vaccines. I hope that you will see the other points of view expressed in these posts and open your heart and your eyes to what they are really saying, which is NOT “how can I lie to get an exemption”.
To Megan – thank you so much for this helpful and informative article! The time and thought that you put into it are apparent, and a huge help to many of us asking these questions. I am an RN; but that does not mean that I agree with mandatory vaccinations. I think that we have to make the best choices for us at any given time and circumstance.
It is against my “religion!” Vaccines are grown on aborted fetuses. Abortion is against my “religion.” The Bible clearly says “thou shalt no kill.” I can not and will not inject my children with aborted fetal cells. If something is grown on it, it contains it. It is not only disgusting but heartbreaking.
Exodus 23:25
Nuf Said.
Great post!! Thanks for sharing!
Nice article, but this is wrong? “But the Bible says we should submit to governing authority.” Yeah, but the governing authority gives me the right to a religious exemption (cite your statute again for their enjoyment) and you are to submit to God over governing authority. (Cite your verse.)
Check out the following on a truthful analysis of what Paul actually meant:
http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Romans_13
http://hisholychurch.org/sermon/romans13.php
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/dearpastorromans13.php
Daniel, I’m not arguing that your citations are right or wrong. I am addressing a commonly quoted statement that a Christian might encounter when attempting to get a religious exemption.
Ok WOW. Daniel has done so Serious Exegesis in regards to “authority”. We may have us a Theologian here!
Well done. Now a Text out of Context is a Pretext and All of the Book of Romans leads us up to Chapter 16. I’ll not get into that here as I am Very long winded.
So let me take a single obscure Bible Verse and tell me what you think Daniel.
Exodus 23:25 NIV
“25 Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,”
Apply this to the Belief that Immunization is Contrary to your Religious BELIEF – to only OFFER Worship only to God.
Now apply what Thomas Aquinas, a Founding Father of the Faith, said…”Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.”
Add a touch from the Founding Father of the USA, James Madison from 1785 in his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.”
If you keep reading in that paragraph found here, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163 then you will see the LEGAL answer to your question…
Remember it is the Principle that was established in 1905 in the decision of Jacobson V Massachusetts 197 U.S. 11
THIS IS WHAT YOUR FIGHTING AGAINST. THIS IS THE REASON WHY YOUR FORCED TO BE IMMUNIZED AGAINST YOUR CONSCIENCE.
“The police power of a State embraces such reasonable regulations relating to matters completely within its territory, and not affecting the people of other States, established directly by legislative enactment, as will protect the public health and safety.”
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/
But does Exodus 23:25 not say that WHEN we get sick we Worship God and then God Provides the Immunity against Death and Disease by giving us HIS BLESSING that is upon our food and water?
Wait, so is it not God who offers Immunity against Disease? Interesting?
So to protect the Public Health And Safety, we MUST worship God. God will remove sickness. If I am not sick, then I can not Pass my sickness on to SOMEONE ELSE! This is HERD IMMUNITY. BUT if I do not worship God then I do not get his Blessing and Then I will remain in my sickness and INFECT those around me. Can it be said that if I go against my conscience and get Immunized I SIN!!!
Well sinning is the OPPOSITE of Worshiping! Thus God will remove His Blessing and I will remain in my sickness and be a DANGER to the Public Health and Safety.
THEREFORE…I MUST NOT BE IMMUNIZED TO … SAVE…THE… W O R L D.
This fulfills the Law of Jacobson V Mass 197 U.S. 11 (1905) known as the Principle. Worship to God protects the Health and Safety of the Public.
Tell me what you think… [email protected]
Yashi
Hi,
Thank you for all your wonderful advice. I have to have my daughter registered for school by Friday. We’re in NC. I would love help in writing this letter for religious exemption if possible.
email me at [email protected] and I’ll help you. Please do not fill out anything regarding NY State Title 10 CCR section 66.
Please tell me if its pre school PreK or Kindergarten.
Yashi.
Yashi, what do you mean do not fill out anything regarding NY state title 10 CCR 66? Could you elaborate? Should the law NOT be mentioned at all in a religious exemption? I ask before i go ahead and right my religious exemption out and add that in. Thanks in advance.
Thank you. You are awesome.
I’m not sure if you may know this or not but would a religious exemption hold in court? For 7 yrs my son’s father & I have forgone vaccines knowing how harmful they are, not only from extensive research but from watching my nephew be vaccine damaged & regress into autism. Now at the age of 10 my son’s father is trying to force us to catch him up on all his vaccines. We will have to see a judge & I am grasping for anything right now that might protect my son. A religious exemption is the only thing I can think of that might hold any water. I’m in Nevada so I know they are acknowledged but not sure about a judge being able to overturn it.
Hey Megan I left a comment last month and would like help with writing or getting a exception letter for my daughter who will be starting daycare this week in GA. Please help I’m in desperate need of guidance as my fience and I don’t meet eye to eye on vaccinating. He’ll start school soon it provides daycare.
Megan,
I just wanted to thank you again for the information you provided. My daughter followed your advice and her university accepted her religious exemption.
Thank you.
Theresa
Ok so I have two vaccine injured children that the doctor states are fine and vaccines could not jave caused their issues. So im in Ga. And would love help writing an religious exemption. Please im so weary about tjis whole thing.
Great post. Thank you!
Thank you for this post! Simple explanations – I love it! One question, is it enough to cite the Bible verse for your reasons, or should I type each one out?
Hi Pam,
Thanks for the reading!
I can’t guarantee this for all places but usually citing the verse is sufficient. 🙂
Yashi here…
The Spirit has shown me a “Bible Verse”.
Before I get into that, does anyone know “WHY” immunizations are forced upon people?
It is because of Jacobson V Mass 197 US 11 (1905)
“The police power of a State embraces such reasonable regulations relating to matters completely within its territory, and not affecting the people of other States, established directly by legislative enactment, as will protect the public health and safety.”
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/
So we fight against this “Principle that Sustains Compulsory Vaccination” , that is to say, the Principle is to Protect Public Health and Safety.
Now to a Bible Verse.
Exodus 23:25 NIV
“Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,”
Therefore, if you “believe” God wants you NOT to be Immunized, as it is God’s Will for your life, then this is a form of Worship.
Thus, because you “worship”, God’s Blessing will be upon you and you Protect The Public Health and Safety! Thus when you get sick, God swiftly removes the sickness from among you as you continue to Worship Him! This fulfills the Principle because if your not sick then you can not infect those around you!
BUT if you go against “God’s Will” for your life and you Get Immunized then God will Remove His Blessing upon you and when you get sick you will remain sick and Infect EVERYONE. You will be Endangering the Health and Safety of the Public and spread the sickness to Everyone!
Worship is a Sacred Act.
Yashi.
Thank you so much for this information! I have a 8 year old who is fully vaccinated and a 1 year old who I don’t plan on vaccinating. School will be starting soon here in GA and I’m super nervous to write letters for them, especially for my daughter who will starting daycare next month. My biggest fear is them giving me a hard time. I’m looking for an exception for daycare but can’t find one in the link that is provided like the one for k-12. Please help!
Hi there, thanks for this- it has been really helpful.
I am getting my son ready for his first year of private pre school in Illinois (only type available in our area). The director has said that they required vaccines and do not accept religious exemptions, that they are not held to the same laws as public schools. Can you point me in the right direction to address this? We are on a time crunch and this has really caught me off guard. Thanks so much.
Illinois allows religious and medical exemptions via state law. Please print out the law via this website: https://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/illinois.aspx
Hope this helps! (The exemption information is usually on the back of the standard immunization form the school gives you.)
My sister has temporary custody of my 3 kids; ages 4, 2, and 1 month baby. She wants to vaccinate and I do have religious exemptions already notarized for each child. She will not tell me the name of the doctor they are visiting or the daycare she pland to put them in. Where would i take the exemptions to further put them into place? My court appointed lawyer gives me the runaround and refuses to help me on this matter. Are there any legal steps I can take, or force my lawyer to take, to prevent her from vaccinating my children?
On the immunization exemption form Missouri offers, there is a list to check with immunizations you are exempted from. There’s only seven and an “other” box. Do I need to specify the rest of the vaccines from the vaccine schedule and hope I’ve covered all of them, or is there a good way to say “all vaccines available”?
Thanks
I’d check both boxes and I’d put “all vaccines” and list them out. 😉
Yes, I agree with Megan just say ALL as the CDC lists 63 Vaccines on their web page.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vaccines-list.html
Hi I live on Long Island New York State. My Baby is 2 years old I vaccinated her at 2 months only . I need religious exemption later to get her to preschool . What should I write ? that I did some vaccinations and now I don’t ! how to explain, should I explain that ?
Here is the Law for NY your looking for. It is Article 47 section 25
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/about/healthcode/health-code-article47.pdf
(A) All children shall be immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B
, pneumococcal disease and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), in accordance with New York Public Health Law §2164, or successor law. Exemption from specific immunizations may be permitted if the immunization may be detrimental to the child’s health or on religious grounds, in accordance with Public Health Law §2164.
And there is state stat law 2164. So you look at that law found here https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf and in section 9 it says
if immunization is contrary to your religious belief then you are exempt.
Now you have to define what your religion is without saying your religion. Hard yes?? no its quite easy.
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.” James Madison
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
If you need help writing a letter, I can help. [email protected]
Yashi
Hi guys,
Great article! I started to panic when I read about the new NJ legislature. We have easily (just a simple letter) retained religious exemption for my daughter for kindergarten & first grade, but we will be moving to a new school district this summer. This article is great for info on how vaccines violate my religious practice, but I was wondering how to most effectively indicate that the religious practice “is consistently held by the person (me)” other than just stating so? I’m assuming there’s a better way. Also, do you have any suggestions for a statement that the parent or guardian understands the risks and benefits of vaccination to the student and to public health and the best way to obtain a signed statement from a New Jersey physician that confirms counseling on those risks and benefits (maybe a draft letter for them to sign?)
Thank you so very much!!!
Amazing article, may I ask what statutory codes one would use in NY to apply for religious exemption to vaccines. I currently can’t find one, thank you
NVIC.ORG would have your state exemption information, including the statute. 🙂
State Stat Law is 2164. Title 10 CCR (Volume A-1a) is the state Code that can be ignored.
Email me at [email protected] and I’ll help you craft a letter.
3 days ago, I just got word that my help secured an Exemption for another person in New York State.
Praise El Elyon!!!!
Yashi
Hi again,
I continue to struggle with getting a religious exemption for my now 8th grader in NYC. I am wondering, has anyone been successful in NYC public system with obtaining a religious exemption??
Am desperate. I need help. I have been denied twice!
Thank you All
I can help. Please email me at [email protected]
Your concern is not the first time I have heard of a denial by the NYC Department of Education.
The law remains clear. 2164-9 allows for Religious Exemptions and NO certificate of Immunization is required….so NONE will be given.
Please PLEASE P L E A S E!!!! Listen to me here. A Religious Exemption is not based on your “RELIGION”. A Religious Exemption based on your Spiritual Apprehension as you understand it. (ie: your personal faith)
Yashi
I really need help writing a letter for my daughter. We are trying to put her in pre k in New York State private catholic school. I have no idea where to begin with writing this letter and I’m afraid if I don’t seek help it will be denied. My husband and I have called at least 4 different attorneys offices looking for guidance and no one is able to help me. Any help with writing this letter will be greatly a appreciated.
PreK is NOT mandated from the state so there is NO laws to follow.
just quote them that its against your conscience to immunize and then quote St Thomas Aquinas
“Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.”
Quote them Exodus 23:25
It is God’s blessing that takes away our sickness.
So in your Worship to the Almighty God…you are healed.
or try this..
To Principal (name here)
(Address here)
I am contacting you in regards to a Religious Accommodation in the form of a Religious Exemption From Immunization in a Place of Public Accommodation. I have placed this letter into my Child’s backpack on the First Day of School to be in Compliance with New York State Statutory Law, Public Health Law 2164-7
7.(a) No principal, teacher, owner or person in charge of a school shall permit any child to be admitted to such school, or to
attend such school, in excess of fourteen days, without the certificate provided for in subdivision five of this section or
some other acceptable evidence of the child’s immunization against poliomyelitis, mumps, measles, diphtheria, rubella,
hepatitis B, varicella and, where applicable, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib); provided, however, such fourteen day
period may be extended to not more than thirty days for an individual student by the appropriate principal, teacher, owner
or other person in charge where such student is transferring from out-of-state or from another country and can show a good
faith effort to get the necessary certification or other evidence of immunization.(emphasis added)
This is why you are receiving this letter, so that I can be in compliance with New York State Statutory Law.
I am invoking the Notwithstanding;
New York State Statutory Law, Public Health Law 2164-9 says,
9 This section shall not apply to children whose parent, parents, or guardian holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to the practices herein required,and no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school. (emphasis added)
This is why Immunization is contrary to my religion.
I feel uncomfortable talking about my religious belief because I find it hard to convince others with my words how I feel inside. I do not want people to be prejudiced against me. Worship to my God and my God alone as he is the Giver and Sustainer of Life is a sacred act for me. I believe that to put my hope, faith, trust and belief in something other than my God to sustain life would be a form of idol worship to a fake/false god.
It is written that my God is a Jealous God and to worship something, or someone else, is a sin. The punishment for sin, is death.
My God teaches me to respect everyone and that my highest calling is to love everyone no matter who they are or where they come from or who or what they worship. I believe that life is a gift from God and therefore all life is sacred. For my God is a God of Love and he loves even me. Because of this I am called to love others, include you who are reading this letter.
So, it is with my a genuine and deepest sincerity of heart, that I am requesting the Religious Accommodation in a Place of Public Accommodation in the form of a Religious Exemption from Immunization on the grounds that Immunization is against my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief. (Childs Names here) will not be Immunized and a Religious Accommodation will be granted in accordance with the supremacy clause, article VI of the Constitution of the United States of America in reference to Federal Statute Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII section 201. (known as the doctrine of pre-emption)
I strongly suggest that you forward this letter The Board of Education for their Review before attempting to withhold, or attempting to deprive me the right to a Religious Accommodation In a Place of Public Accommodation with something that is Not Legally Binding, ie New York State Volume A-1a (NY STATE TITLE 10 CCR) as I am acting in Good Faith and will rebut. Furthermore, this action will prove a prejudice against me and an attempt to deprive me of my right legally afforded to me as discrimination.
TITLE II–INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
SEC. 201. (a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. (emphasis added)
Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII section 203
SEC. 203. No person shall (a) withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (b) intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202.
James Madison said this,
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
Thank you in advance for granting me what is rightly mine under the law, A Religious Accommodation in the form of a Religious Exemption From All Immunizations in this Place of Public Accommodation based on my Spiritual Apprehension.
I would also appreciate it if you would be so kind as to forward of copy of this letter to The Board of Education on my behalf so they may review it and issue the Accommodation.
Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter. I realize how busy you must be at the start of a new school year.
I look forward to working with you and the school district in the future as we prepare to do great things together!
Sincerely Yours,
Or just go to the codes themselves..
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf
That is the State Stat Law
Title 10 CCR is subject to this law..it is officially known as Volume A-1a section 66.3
found here…
https://regs.health.ny.gov/content/section-69-310-religious-exemption-immunization
or article 47.25 if your in a day care.
Both Article 47 and Title 10 are subject to State Stat Law 2164. State Stat Law 2164 is then Subject to Federal Statutes
Proof of the 2164 authority is found on this page
https://regs.health.ny.gov/volume-1a-title-10/1172263168/part-66-immunizations
Statutory Authority
Public Health Law, Sections 2164, 2165, 2168
On the Federal stage you have President Trumps Exe order https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-05-09/pdf/2017-09574.pdf
resulting in https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download
THIS THING OF BEAUTY!!!!
yASHI
Thank you for such an informative post.
My daughter will be attending a university in NJ this fall. Is a letter of religious exemption from vaccines for universities basically the same as a letter of religious exemption from vaccines for grades K-12? She is an adult and will be drafting her own letter but I want to make sure that she gives the right amount of information. I’ve read that letters should be short and make the point as to why her beliefs do not support vaccination but after reading your post I see that you’ve included several biblical quotes to support that belief. I just want to make sure that her letter is as effective as possible. Would you suggest that she includes just a few important biblical references? Or is more better? I wasn’t sure if your post was aimed predominantly at younger individuals or if you would you use a similar format to request a religious exemption from vaccines at universities, especially for students who will be living on campus?
Given the fact that she will be living on campus, we want to be sure that she has written the most effective letter possible, giving the right amount of information to support her beliefs. I think her main concern is reading that sometimes you can give too much information that can work against you but we don’t know exactly what that means. Any insight or advice you can provide would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Yes, you do not forefit your Civil Rights to go to University. letters should not be short. they should quote the laws and how them trying to establish your religion to be used against you is illegal.
you have the Right to Worship as you see fit in the usa. have her search Jacobson v mass 1905 and buck v bell 1927 and Civil right act Title VII subtitle II section 201, 202, 203 and Smith V Employment Division. Also The Memorial and Remonstrance against Religios Assessment James Madison 1785. yes 1785.
President Trump had the Attorney General office issue a Religious Memorandum last year. it outlines 12 Principles. principle 2 is very well written. i carry a copy of this memmo, yeah im weird, in my man bag every day.
yashi
Yashi,
Thank you for your help! I will have her search the information you provided as well as reading the information myself. We want to make sure she gets her letter correct so I really appreciate your advice.
Theresa
Thank you for this article! Now the “Please Explain” section of the vaccine exemption form for my two private school kids reads: “We choose to exercise the right as parents to object to vaccinations on religious grounds.” I wanted to include the word “Boom,” but I didn’t! 😆
Because to put your Faith, Hope and Trust in Vaccines made with Human Hands to being about Immunity from Death and Disease instead of trusting in God to grant Immunity is contrary to your Religion. You Believe that Immunization is a form of Worship to a False god of Immunity. God alone has the power over life and death. To worship anything other than your God is a SIN. The wages of sin is death.
Wow you are so helpful here!! I have a new born born at home in the state of Georgia. Any resources and direction to what I do after writing my letter and having it notorized? Do I file it somewhere in court? Also I don’t plan on getting him a SSN I want to authenticate him as a live being that belongs to me not the state. Any guidance on the legalities of that would be helpful as well. Again thank you for your help and kindest regards.
Um, the child, later in life, must pay taxes as part of a Police Action. Not giving your child to the Authority of the Powers over him is NOT what Paul Teaches in the bible in the writing to the ROMANS.
What I am hearing is that you do not want the child to even exist to the outside world. So not you are not going to get anything from me that could help you hide your child under a rock. This sounds like your not setting your child up for success.
If your not even going to recognize the authorities why would you even write them a letter? Seems kinda stupid to bow down to one authority and ignore the other.
We Abide by THE LAW. We Recognize their Power over us and how God teaches us to be UNDER the Authority of Powers that God has set up. Obama was in power because God set it up that way. Trump is in power because God set it up that way. So either way, we Obey the Laws and support those in Power not because we want to, but because we HAVE to as a DUTY to the Creator.
God knows what He is doing. I disliked Obama but Prayed DAILY (sometimes twice) for him! I did NOT want to pray good things for Obama but I did because God required it. Its called Obedience out of Love for my Savior!
The Prayers I offered Never ONCE changed Obama but they DID change me. I was not filled with Hate but compassion. I really wanted God to make a break-through in Obama’s life and then here came TRUMP!!!
So no I will not help you unless your willing to recognize the powers that be and become obedient to them EVEN when you think they are wrong. Not getting the SSN is abusive in my mine. Cant even open a bank account for them without it. What are they going to do when they reach the age to do things for themselves? Will they have to pay back taxes? Are they even going to get a Job? Even McDonalds requires a SSN.
Your selfishness boggles my mind. Why are you giving your child a snake?
yashi
Wow how rude and ignorant your Social Security statement is! It was never intended to be use for anything other than the original intent and you can refuse to participate in the system. Her child can get an EIN or TIN number when it becomes an adult to accommodate the taxes he/she believes he/she is legally liable to participate in, which only matters really, if you voluntarily fill out a W2 or W4 or 1099. It’s a fallacy that one has to participate in the system as it’s currently setup, which may not even exist when her child turns 18.
My Bad never ment to upset or to be rude just was addressing what you said, “a live being that belongs to you.” reminded me of my relationship to my beloved Dog Chloe that I just had put down. She was a great living being that belonged to me and had no social security number either. She was 16. I miss her…
We don’t abide by the first amendment anymore? That the government should not infringe on religious beliefs. The Bible says to do as the world law say but not if it is against Him . It’s about freedom of religion and having rights the government has no right to tell you what to do with your child. They can’t tell you not to kill your child (abortion) but they can tell you to inject them with poison and do it even if it’s against everything you believe do they infringe on Muslim beliefs ? Or Scientology? No just Christian beliefs. I’ll pray for you. God Bless
I am going to get all “religious” on you. Matthew 17:24-27
Why did Jesus Caesar and Also Pay the Temple Tax when NONE was required by the “CHILDREN of GOD”? This is why Christians are called the “Children of God” by the way.
Jesus Said Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and Give to God what is God’s. In other words, if the Government requires you to get a Social Security Number, then Jesus says, DO IT because it is with this number you pay the TAX. If there is a TAX that is NOT required, PAY that too.
Ok now lets get LEGAL. There is a “WAY” or a “PATH” legally to get an EXEMPTION. WHY are you telling people to BREAK the LAW?
Breaking the Law’s of MEN is a SIN. TEACHING people to SIN is even WORSE. Don’t you know that “teachers” will be held to DOUBLE the Punishment!!!
I am subject to 2x the Punishment because I am “TEACHING” others to get an exemption. I do not take it LIGHTLY that I am “SCREWING” with peoples LIVES!
WHAT happens if I am WRONG!!! Then I fail and People and they HAVE to get IMMUNIZED!
If your Wrong, then and someone “HEARS” your voice and Rejects the LAW then the LAW will not only Immunize those kids but Enact the POLICE POWER to remove those kids from their PARENTS.
I STRONGLY suggest you keep your sin to yourself and Pray that the Holy Spirit Convict you and you Pray for Forgiveness.
Nothing I say gives me ANY Financial GAIN. I don’t want Recognition I want to teach a way to get a Religious Accommodation because the LAW ALLOWS it not because I wish it does or think it does.
Yashi
Ok Yashi first now you sound like the hardcore pro vaxers. Second, you’d be surprised how much you can get done without a SSN. Third, you are completely misinterpreting the scripture to submit to authority as many folks do. God is not setting up this government who worship Baal or Satan. I suppose when they set up the mark of the beast spoken of in the Bible then we all should get that because it’s government orders? You are just picking and choosing what you want to submit to and unsing scripture (incorrectly) to bash others over the head when they choose to do something different. Shame on you.
I do not believe you will find much solace here. We believe in following the laws not in ignoring them.
To deny your child a SSN number because you want your child to belong to you is a fallacy in your mind. The Police Power of the Federal Government is an amazing thing. Testing this Power is not advised and neither is not living in reality.
Your child is subject to the constitution and this constitution affords you certain rights and denies you others based on these police powers.
So, do the right thing. Get them the SSN and bring them to checkups. Sign forms denying Immunization so there is a Record that your Genuine and Sincere and have yours and your kids best interest at heart.
Hi Megan & Yashi! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us!!! I have a (very) High Functioning Autistic 8 years old son that I have been homeschooling since he was 5. He has never been in regular public school, only in an Early Learning Center (daycare-preschool) when he was 3 years old to 4 1/2 year old. We live in NYC, we’re Vegan, we don’t use any kind of drugs prescribed or otc, only natural plant based supplements/medicine. He was partially vaccinated against my will once when he was born and the second and last time when he was 7 months old). I have decided to register my son to start school this September but I know that I’ll get in trouble because he’s not updated with his vaccines. I don’t want to vaccinate my son, that’s not an option for us. I would like to ask if you could help me, please, writing a Religious Exemption. As you can tell, English is not my first language and I’m scared that I won’t use the right wording to make this letter. Thanks in advance for all your help.
Email at exemption help and I’ll help you.
yashi.
Your Law is NYS Health Law 2164. Google it.
Thanks Yashi, I emailed you now.
I will be going to the health department here in Tampa, FL to get religious exemptions for my kids. My older two are vaxxed and my youngest only had the 2 month shot. I will need for him to be able to go to the CDC on base and i know they take religious exemptions but they have to be approved by the Directorate person. Anywho, my question is do I need to write a letter before I go on to the heath department requested the religious exempt? Like what is the letter for? For the public schools or more so for obtaining the exempt form? Thanks.
Hi we live in CA which doesn’t allow religious exempt. What can we do? Thanks
Ivy – Since you can’t do a religious exemption in California. Seek a Medical Doctor that will do a medical exemption. Dr Stoller in San Fran is against Vaccines and does medical evaluations – http://www.jabevalscalifornia.com. Also, consider stopping by the FB site Stop Mandatory Vaccination created by Larry Cook – he is awesome. We all help on there mothers looking for medical exemptions. Also, on FB is California Against Mandated Vaccines. Lots of mommas can help locate a doctor to write the medical exemption as there is no way around it – you must have one to avoid vaccines. here are the links:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/StopMandatoryVaccination/ &
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472519509725752/
Ivy
Can you Email me at [email protected]
I can guide you through the Federal Statutes that will show SB 277 is not in Compliance with Article VI Paragraph 2 of the Constitution.
Yashi.
I just want to remind people that in New York State Title 10 Section 66 is NOT legally binding. It has a Statutory Authority. https://regs.health.ny.gov/volume-1a-title-10/1172263168/part-66-immunizations
This means that when you get the Request for Religious Exemption to Immunization form quoting 10 NYCRR section 66.1-3(d) you do not have to fill it out to get your exemption.
This form says that “Its purpose is to establish the religious basis for your request”. It is against Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII Sub-Title II section 203 for the Government to attempt to “intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege” for the sole purpose of denying your request to a Religious Accommodation. https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html
They are handing these forms out like candy hoping law abiding Religious People will simply fill out the form so they can be denied. Why else design the form?
The kicker is the form makes it “seem like” a government official is the some one will contemplate in their mind if your religion is genuine and sincere and thus worthy of a Religious Exemption. This implies that this same someone will allow one religion to get an exception but choose that a different religion is not worthy in their mind because they “feel” their Faith is not sufficient!
Sounds like grounds Religious Segregation, Religious Prejudice and Religious Discrimination all in one tidy package.
This is your law for new york state https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf
I found this quote about the difference between CCR’s and Statutory Laws…
“Unlike common law, which is subject to interpretation in its application by the court, statutory laws are generally strictly construed by courts. Strict construction means that courts are generally not able to read between the lines of a statute in order to liberalize its application. Rather, they will be bound by its express terms. ”
https://www.hg.org/statutory-law.html
No certificate of Immunization is Required therefore, NONE WILL BE GIVEN.
So no need to fill out the exemption form, good to know! My child’s school has requested a letter from the church, in letterhead, attesting my beliefs. I do not attend a specific church and haven’t had any luck with getting someone to write one for me. Is there a FB page where I can possibly find someone I can get to write it? Also, do they call or do some sort of check on the church? are they even allowed to request such a thing? I am in NYC. my child will be attending prek.
look your seeking a personal religious exemption. this is about personal Worship, not corporate. if you give them a pastors letter then they have tricked you and established your religion. once they know your corporate religon, they will say that the corporate church allows immunizations, as all of them do, and then say you have to be immunized because of the Principle established in 1905 with jacobson v mass. that ruling says that a police action can force immunizations in your personal body for public health and safety. buck v bell 274 US 200 1927 took it further with Eugenics and said this principle is broad enough to cut out the reproductive organs of 65000 women in government run institutions so they could be raped and toutured without having a baby! These two laws have never been overruled.
But in 1964 the Civil Rights Act Title VII subtittle II section 201,202,203 narrowed the police power to force a medical procedure in your body if it was against your personal, NOT CORPORATE, religion as outlined in Smith V Employment Div 1990.
so, read more on Megan’s blog and you will find a form letter or email me at [email protected]
once you submit a letter from your pastor its very hard to get the exemption without threatening to sue them.
Exodus 23:25 Worship The Lord your God and He will bless your bread and water. He will remove sickness from among you.
Therefore, your abstaining from the act of Immunization helps protect the public health and safety through your act of Worship to your God. But if you get Immunized against the Will of God as you understand it, known as Spiritual Apprehension, then you ALWAYS sin. This act of sin does not bring the Lord’s Blessing and is a threat to public health and safety. Afterall, this IS THE PRINCIPLE.
Yashi
Incredible information!!! Grateful to have found it!
Does anyone have any specific advice on the proper way to handle the new laws in New Jersey?
Yes, I found a sample letter (on experimentalvaccines.org), updated it to our current law (there’s a link on the page) and included a lot of what’s in this article. Our law was updated in 2011 to make it harder to get religious exemptions. They took the phrase “persons charged with implementing administrative rules should not question whether parents’ professed religious belief is reasonable, acceptable, sincere or bonafide” out. So now our religious exemptions must “explain how vaccines conflicts with bonafide religious beliefs”. Hope this helps any NJ residents!
Hello! And thank you for this post, I need to make some flash cards in case I am questioned by my son’s private school. I am not good in pressured situations like these, but I feel so strongly about defending his rights! Anyway, my question is regarding the letter – why is everyone writing letters? Why not just check the religious exemption box, sign, date, and send it to the school? Is the letter because the school comes back and tries to deny the exemption?
Appreciate any thoughts on this matter. And again, THANK YOU for this exceptionally helpful post.
“The Letter” is written because there is no “BOX” to check.
What is happening is that the “state” is ignoring Federal Statutes.
So lets take California for example. Gov Brown signed SB 277 into Law in California. This law prohibits – exiles – relegates – segregates – whatever word you want to use, Religious Objectors to home schooling.
See it is illegal NOT to school your kids, they MUST go to school or the state will take your kids away in a Police Action supported by the Courts.
But the state wants everyone Immunized because they BELIEVE that Everyone MUST be Immunized to get Immunity. So if there is ONE person in the school NOT immunized then that ONE person will infect EVERYONE and leave NO ONE with Immunity and EVERYONE DIES!!!
Its called Collective Salvation. Unless your Immunized from, name the disease here __________, then everyone will get that disease and DIE!!!
So basically someone who has been Vaccinated has 0 Immunity if they are around someone who has not been Vaccinated.
This is absurd. Either you ARE immune or your not. If you had the MMR shotsss (3 of them) then there is NO way my kid can give you measles!!! unless of course this vaccine DOES NOT WORK!!!
So recap, NO Box to check for Religious Exemption and what is worse, its not even a RELIGIOUS person trained at a RELIGIOUS SCHOOL that gets to ESTABLISH if YOUR RELIGION is worthy of an exemption!!! Its a Medical DR that is a Government EMPLOYEE – they give the DR the License to practice and WORK in your SCHOOL – this NON RELIGIOUS WORKER decides what is unalienable TO THEM!!!!
I mean COME ON. Even the House of Representatives has a CHAPLIN. I’ll bet you there is NO PUBLIC school in the USA who has a CHAPLIN on staff to decide RELIGIOUS MATTERS!!!
How does a person go about documentation re exemption based on being Vegan? I am relocating to US from the UK & my daughter has never had vaccines so far (she is 16) she has had chicken pox naturally as a small child so is immune to that disease (that’s a start!) Any help greatly appreciated! Oh, forgot to mention we will be living in Florida.
Here is what I uncovered…
“…a vegan may, depending on the evidence, have a legal ground for claiming that her veganism qualifies for the same protection as a sincerely held religious belief.”
https://verdict.justia.com/2013/03/06/is-veganism-a-religion-under-anti-discrimination-law
You can thank Francis Galton, who promoted a vision of a secular religion based on the principles of evolution and eugenics in 1907 to the EEC.
“Galton suggested that the term ‘religion’ could be applied ‘to any group of sentiments or persuasions that are strong enough to bind us to do that which we intellectually may acknowledge to be our duty, and the possession of some form of religion in this larger sense of the word is of the utmost importance to moral stability.””
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001825/#FN39
Google says a religion is….”a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.”
As you see they are the SAME.
Julian Huxley and Francis Galton, who promoted a vision of a secular religion based on the principles of evolution and eugenics.
So if Veganism is a Strongly Held Personal Belief that you ascribe to be of UTMOST importance, then by definition, Veganism IS a religion.
But how do you define it as such in someone else’s mind? Is there a “higher” power involved? Is it the Spirit of the Living Creature violated by killing it and eating it?
I dont know and can not answer that.
Is it a Religion. I believe so. People will Die for this cause. Should a Police Action as outlined in Jacobson v Massachusetts 197 US 11 (1905) be used to force you to immunize?
“The police power of a State embraces such reasonable regulations relating to matters completely within its territory, and not affecting the people of other States, established directly by legislative enactment, as will protect the public health and safety.”
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/case.html
I don’t think you can be immunize against your “will” under the law.
I would argue that some people believe that the Medical Procedure called, Immunization is no different than a Do-Not-Resuscitate Order.
You can not use a medical procedure to prolong someone’s life if it is against their “will” even if someone else believes it will save their life! People believe that the use of a Police Action to have people forcibly immunized against their will is acceptable because it will protect the heath and welfare of society. Thus your subjected to Medical Procedures Against your Will on the one hand. But on the other hand if I have a DNR and you pull me out of a pool, you can not save my life knowing I have a DNR.
The result is The Government OWNS your body and will dictate by a Police Action on what medical procedures you can and cant object to. Its Discrimination.
Like Buck V Bell 294 U.S. 200 (1927). Carrie Buck had her reproductive organs cut out of her because of a Police Action. Carrie Buck was forced to have a Medical Procedure to Save Society and not have children should she be raped again in a Government Institution!
Seems self serving for the Government not to take action to bring the rapist to justice and then to pass a generational death sentence (Eugenics) on her offspring and use a Police Action to carry out its dirty work under the guise of protecting the Health and Safety of Society.
As for doccumentation, you need the government forms filled out and the fees paid in advance or on the spot during the interview.
So I’d download the papers for the waiver cause your going to get denied. An I-690 for being inadmissible should be filled out just in case and the fee planned to be paid, just in case your Interviewer does not accept your letter for an Accommodation,
Now I am NOT a Lawyer at all and seems weird for me to be talking about Immigration Laws! BUT I have 2 things in common here. I am Canadian and came here with a Religious Workers Visa and obtained Permanent Residence Status. I filled out my OWN forms with my wife’s help – she is SUPER smart with forms.
I also have a Religious Exemption from immunization for my son to attend public school in New York State because I LOVE reading about Laws and History.
I am assuming your filling out the USCIS I-485 and have sent in your fee. Have you done the bio-metrics and Physical?
If you look at that (I-485) there is NO place for immunization. What is asked under the defined rules and codes is that if you are seeking an Accommodation but ONLY if you are asked! You may not even be asked. If you are, then you can get an accommodation on either MORAL or RELIGIOUS Objections. So yours would be MORAL.
Your letter needs to show that you object to 1) All Immunizations 2) your Sincere 3) your views are strongly held
So write a letter and bring it with you to your interview after your Biometrics and Medial Exam.
Email me [email protected] and maybe I can help with sample letters but I would strongly advise getting legal council who is familiar with this because you do not want to mess this up and I can not represent you.
Yashi.
My daughter will be starting Kindergarten this September. We live in the state of MA and i know they accept religious exemptions but I just dont know how to write one out, could you help me please??
First thing I would do, not being from MA, is to search Immunization Exemption Laws for MA. So in tool bar, search “MA Immunization Exemption Law”. Then hiT Search.
The first hit is this…https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXII/Chapter76/Section15
Then Locate the ACTUAL name of the law so you can Quote it in a letter.
CoMA Part 1 Title XII Chapter 76 Section 15 Paragraph 3 says this,
“In the absence of an emergency or epidemic of disease declared by the department of public health, no child whose parent or guardian states in writing that vaccination or immunization conflicts with his sincere religious beliefs shall be required to present said physician’s certificate in order to be admitted to school.”
Paragraph 2 says when to send in the letter. “…Such certification shall be submitted at the beginning of each school year…”
Therefor, you will give the school a letter at the start of the school year that relays what your strongly held Personal Religious views are.
If you would like help putting together your thoughts on what a religious exemption is feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Yashi.
Hi Zuri! I too am from MA and my youngest is starting kindergarten as well. Have you wrote your letter yet? Any help you can provide me is greatly appreciated.
So I am applying to a university in Tennessee and all I need for a religious exemption according to their health department is a notarized form saying that it goes against my religious practices and beliefs. I have a few questions since I am not against all vaccinations I have had some in the past. I went to my local health department and discussed with them the ingredients of the one vaccination I didn’t have on their required listed and I was actually shocked, and I don’t feel comfortable putting that into my body, it goes against what I believe is right. It’s actually a second dose of something I’ve already had, can they claim that the signed statement is not true since I’ve had one of the immunizations in the past ? They have my history of what I’ve had in the past. I’m very conscious of what I put in my body since I was given a trial series of vaccination when I was a teenager which turned out to be really bad for you after a study. It doesn’t say anything on their website about having to write a letter about what I believe in? And Tennessee laws are vague.
You can not make an objection to an Immunization based on ingredients that the STATE has deemed safe through studies by the CDC.
A Police Action will be brought against you to force you to immunize to protect the Health and Safety of Society.
That is known as “THE PRINCIPLE”.
The Government has the RIGHT to violate your personal body and subject it to Medical Procedures against your will.
This is the LAW.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/case.html
Never been overturned but it has been narrowed.
So you can have a Religious Objection granted for you in a Place of Public Accommodation under Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII Sub Title VI section 201.
TITLE II–INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
SEC. 201. (a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
As for your past, you can have a religious epiphany at any moment that can explain away the past. This is defined as a sudden and striking realization that prompts you to new actions or a new way of life leaving the past behind, be it from an hour, a week, a month, or years.
If you need help writing a letter, contact me at [email protected]
Yashi
Maryland only offers religious exemptions. We have so far gotten the single-dose Dtap, Hib, and Prevnar vaccines. But we do not want any more and would like to apply for religious exemption going forward. Any suggestions for explanation for why we changed our minds?
You’ve had a sudden and striking realization! Known as a religious epiphany. Poof the past is gone.
Hi there,
This is very helpful information. Would it be a crime to copy down the exact instructions on my exemption form?
You can certainly use this as a template for your exemption form. 🙂
Help your self this is Megan’s Blog and lets me help in any way I can. Use anything or nothing but Please do not say your religion when getting a Religious Exemption.
Yashi.
Hello ! My son is 5 years old , he is about to enter kindergarten in NY. I have read that NY is the hardest state to get a religious exemption in. Do you have any suggestions on how we should proceed? Thank you so much !
I can help you write a letter to your school, a place of public accommodation regarding a Religious Exemption in that place of public accommodation that you can give the school on your childs FIRST day of Mandatory Education. In New York State it is the LAW that every child attend school.
[email protected]
Your laws are
Federal Statute – Civil Rights Act Title VII sub-title VI Section 201 https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html
and
State Statutory Law 2164 section 5 (for when to send the letter) and section 9 claiming the exemption.
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf
It should only take one letter in a perfect world, but will/may take or 3 letters. Mine took several more since I did not know what I was doing.
I have my exemption for my son in New York State and I am willing and able to help anyone of any “religion” to get the exemption.
Yashi thank you so much! How can I get your help to write this letter?
Hello Yashi,
Me and my wife have gone ahead and written an exemption letter that was denied because they stated that she had our son receive his first few vaccines. Any help would be appreciated. He’s been out of school for almost 3 months now.
Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH…. I can’t convey my gratitude adequately. Just…. Thank you.
I’m Wiccan and I can’t find a form to fill out for no immuniZations from school can u help me?
How many times have I said, never say your Religion to get a Religious Exemption.
First let me say as a follower of EL ELYON, The MOST HIGH GOD and I firmly believe that all things IN HIM came into Being. My Wisdom comes from ONLY from El Elyon.
Now El Elyon has sent you to me. Therefore, to HONOR my GOD and show you LOVE from my GOD, I’ll help you.
I do not approve of your “religion” but this is a LEGAL matter you seek. Hate is from the Devil and I am fighting him back right now. My personal Feelings do not change WHO my God is because while I was still a Sinner, He loved even me.
So in the Name of El Elyon and by His Power with the Knowledge that the Universe has bestowed on me by a sacred blessing I call upon you to email me at [email protected] and tell me what state you live in and some “personal” experience with being Sincere in your fight against Immunization.
I will prove to you that my Religious Jurisprudence is sufficient to save you from Immunizing your son. I “know the mind of the Supreme Creative Force”.
Thank El Elyon and Praise Him for what He is about to do in your life.
Yashi
Hi megan my name is veronica i have 2 boys a 5 year old and a 3 yr old and i have a personal exmption for both but there pre_k teacher is telling me that when i enroll my 5yrold to kindergarten in september that no kindergarten class will except the exemptions they already have and im in the state of utah so iam aware that i can get a religious exemption but im not so sure how to begin or if her information is even true can you help me with some useful websites and info please and thank you.
Ps. I love you and yashis information iam so grateful for all that you both enform us with and thank you for your time.
Megan – Utah is in trouble but I think I found the Statutory Authority and it is NOT what the State wants us to believe it is! Can your Legal Friend look at this to see if I am correct? If I am, then I can construct a letter for people in Utah that will Neuter 53G-9-302-303-304
________________________________________________________
Utah will have new health Laws come into effect on July 1, 2018
http://www.immunize-utah.org/information%20for%20the%20public/immunization%20recommendations/exemptions.html
This will NOT apply to you!! None of it. You need to write a letter to the school and tell them your applying for a Religious Accommodation in accordance with https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title26A/Chapter1/C26A-1_1800010118000101.pdf
Utah Code Chapter 1 Local Health Departments Part 1 Local Health Department ACT
Section
26A-1-124 Religious exemptions.
This part does not authorize a local health department to impose on any person any mode
of treatment inconsistent with the creed or tenets of any religious denomination of which the
person is an adherent, provided the person complies with sanitary and quarantine laws, rules, and
regulations.
CLAIMING AN EXEMPTION
A parent may claim an exemption to immunization for medical, religious, or personal reasons, as allowed by Section 53A-11-302 of the Utah Statutory Code.
THERE needs to be a NOTWITHSTANDING clause! There isn’t. Therefore, 53A-11-302 is Illegal and not compliant with Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII Sub Title II section 201.
53A-11-302. Immunizations required — Exceptions — Grounds for exemption from required immunizations
(3) A student is exempt from receiving the required immunizations if there is presented to the appropriate official of the school one or more of the following:
(c) a statement that the person is a bona fide member of a specified, recognized religious organization whose teachings are contrary to immunizations, signed by one of the following persons:
http://www.immunize-utah.org/information%20for%20the%20public/immunization%20recommendations/exemptions.html
I think we can use Article VI Paragraph B to counter any state law in reference to Federal Statute 1964 Title VII sub-title II paragraph 201. This should work all the way to the Supreme Court and since people do not have to “Pay” for Lawyers and Court Fees, this is a Viable Option.
No State law can Usurp your Civil Rights to be free from discrimination of your religion in a Place of Public Accommodation in order to segregate you from your school – kick you out of school because you hold religious convictions contrary to theirs.
For the Betterment of the Whole world, the “principle that sustains compulsory vaccination” has already been proved to be prejudiced against our religious rights when they sterilized 65,000 people in government care after Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr’s decision in Buck V Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927) evolving Eugenics.
There is a NEW Government Proposal to chime in on!
Go here for more information
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/26/2018-01226/protecting-statutory-conscience-rights-in-health-care-delegations-of-authority
These actions should not take you more than 10 minutes each to complete and could make a significant impact in restoring parental vaccine choice, especially in California, Mississippi and West Virginia, as well as adult vaccine choice in all states.
Before March 26th, 2018, A Voice for Choice Advocacy asks you to complete each of the following actions, which are applicable to you or your family.
1. Give Public Comment to the Proposed Rule HHS–OCR– 2018–0002 which will ensure that HHS does not fund or administer programs or activities that violate conscience and associated anti-discrimination laws – see below
2. File a complaint with the Federal Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights for religious or moral conscience discrimination (if applicable) – l
3. File a complaint with the Federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for religious or moral conscience discrimination (if applicable) –
Important Notice…
Enroll your children first before notifying them your intent to apply for a Religious Exemption.
I know it was hard to wait when I was seeking my Religious Exemption for my son.
Once your accepted into something they can not kick your children out because you apply for a Religious Accommodation.
BUT if you tell them before hand of your intent “they” can makeup an excuse to exclude your child before they even have a chance to attend for one day – like, the day care is full when it is not. Or the Pre-School has a new policy for diversity and in order be compliant, your child does not fit the demographic and therefore, your denied.
Hello,
I am about to regster my daughter for PreK in NYC and was told I had to wait until the exemption was granted is this legal since I am reading there is no actual law making it a requirement for her to have this before Kindergarten. Please help.
Here is what the Law says.
Public Health Law New York State 2164
7 (a) No principal, teacher, owner or person in charge of a school shall permit any child to be admitted to such school, or to attend such school, in excess of fourteen days, without the certificate provided for in subdivision five of this section or some other acceptable evidence of the child’s immunization……
14 days. So on the FIRST day of State Mandated Education in which your child will turn 6 years old, send your exemption letter on the First Day of School in their child’s Backpack.
Once the School has been notified, the school can not kick your child out of school while your in the process of securing a Religious Exemption. So if the process lasts 4 months (like mine did) the school can not “kick” your child off school ground.
I have a few questions.
Do you have a denial for admission in writing?
Is the school aware that Pre-K is not legally binding?
“The compulsory attendance law in New York State requires that all children between the ages of six and sixteen be provided with a program of instruction, either at a public school or elsewhere.”
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/nonpub/manualfornewadministratorsofnps/statereqs.html
So if your child is NOT yet 6, there is no legal requirement for them to be “educated”.
How does the school know your intentions? Writing, Verbal?
[email protected]
Yashi
Megan,
Check this out..
Im posting it here because it is CHALKED FULL of laws…going to take me years to read and understand it all, but here it is…
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-01226.pdf
Ok lots of chatter lately about your Peed office and having to sign waver forms. The waver from is because of the law listed below.
U.S. Code › Title 42 › Chapter 7 › Subchapter XIX › § 1396s
vaccination (42 U.S.C. 1396s(c)(2)(B)(ii)),
This Program for distribution of pediatric vaccines…
The religious exemption for your Pediatric Dr is here.
You could write the Peed office a letter and present them with it…
Today’s Date
To whom it may concern,
In accordance with U.S. Code › Title 42 › Chapter 7 › Subchapter XIX › § 1396s vaccination (42 U.S.C. 1396s(c)(2)(B)(ii)), my child will not be receiving any vaccinations.
Signed,
Parent
How’s that for a post card?
The actual wording of U.S. Code › Title 42 › Chapter 7 › Subchapter XIX › § 1396s vaccination (42 U.S.C. 1396s(c)(2)(B)(ii)) is:
“The provider will provide pediatric vaccines in compliance with applicable State law, including any such law relating to any religious or other exemption.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1396s
So much for me to learn….and that title 42 is quoted…ALOT
I really wish my Community College would offer the Paralegal Course again.
Also, I was thinking of doing the Bar Exam for New York State for funzies to see what was on it.
I can not “represent” anyone but I sure can help them write letters. Being on staff at several different Churches as an Associate Pastor of Youth and Worship seems to have positioned me nicely for writing compelling Religious Exemptions.
That’s got me to thinking, should the School Districts not have a “religious” person on staff (or atleast on call – like a Chaplin) who can decide the matters of Faith? I guess the problem is, if it was me, I would issue everyone an exemption because of Spiritual Apprehension!
Charles Hodges once said this regarding Spiritual Apprehension, “. . it (faith) arises from a spiritual apprehension of the truth, or from the testimony of the Spirit with and by the truth in our hearts.” (Emphasis Added)
John 15:26
So I have NO options living in California?!
You can SUE the Brown administration because Bill 277 does not allow for a Religious Accommodation in a Place of Public Accommodation as afforded to you under Federal Statute Civil Rights act 1934 Title Vii section 201.
Because of Trump, you can now make a complaint DIRECTLY to the Civil Rights office using their WEB Page!!
https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/smartscreen/main.jsf
Violation of Conscience or Religious Freedom
Thank you VERY much Mr President Trump!!
I was going to post a lot of this but, as usual, I’d be long winded…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236294/
I like the way it says, 4 deaths are not enough to prove “an association between immunization and infectious disease”.
Gosh darn it, death is not good here folks. How can they measure an immune response at 3 weeks if the subject dies before then!
I’ll include this quote too..
“more recent studies have shown that, after measles immunization or reimmunization, certain lymphocyte functions, such as the ability to replicate when stimulated with phytohemagglutinin or to excrete certain chemotactic factors, are mildly but measurably depressed (Hirsch et al., 1981), and the number of CD8-positive lymphocytes falls slightly (Nicholson et al., 1992).”
MMR DESTROYS your IMMUNE system! Any depression of your immune system is BAD. The MORE often you get the MMR the more the greater the depression and its length!
“The committee found no report of a systematic comparison of the effects of monovalent and polyvalent live attenuated vaccines on immunity. ”
BECAUSE NO REPORT WAS OR HAS EVER BEEN MADE!
Hi! I recently signed the Opt out of Vaccines for my baby but after signing it I realized how I should not have because I do not agree that I am harming my baby I am too a new daughter of the King and have seen the light. Learning more and more about our God. Is there anything I can do to retract this, I signed it being a over tired new mom and felt pressured.
Sorry this was at my babies pediatrician office. She has gotten the 1st set of vaccines before knowing more about the Lord and has not gotten any since.
Joan,
I signed every last one of them forms. Matter of a fact, I signed every last one of them forms with a HUGE smile on my face!
At every wellness visit I signed one for 2 years? At every appointment where he was to get “shots” I signed the form.
My son was examined up and down, and left and right and sometimes, inside and out. The Dr was DESPERATE to find Anything, Something wrong with my child.
When my child was teething and had an ear ache we went to see the Dr for Medication.
My Dr was confused. Why would I seek medical attention for one thing but refuse the “shots”.
I told her I object to Immunizations but not other medical procedures. I said I am religious not an idiot. If the kid has problems lets fix him.
So now, there is a record that I am “harming” my child and absolutely no physical evidence to that! It really makes the dr look stupid and if they want to look stupid, who am I to stop that?
Get this, the last time I came in, for my son’s wellness visit they asked if he has the flu. I said no, he missed one day so far of school with a low grade fever so we kept him home that day.
Everyone in his class has been very sick. Some of the kids go to my church and one was sent to the Children’s Hospital for serious issues related to this years flu outbreak.
The question everyone is asking is, “why is my kid so healthy”, or “is your kid not sick…yet?” I shrug my shoulders and say, “must be the vitamins I feed him?”…all the while I’m thinking, well I never destroyed his immune system like you were told to do!
Yashi
I am in NY and wondering if I go get exemptions for my 1 year old now or later prior to school? I too signed the opt out of vaccines and was wondering if that will hurt us in the end. I did notice my child’s doctor was trying to find something wrong with her. she is in the 97 percentile in everything, she is anemic tho but she is also breastfed. I am starting her on iron now. where do I go to start the process? Yashi or anyone, can you help? Thanks!
They usually have to be re-done each year so I would wait until your child is ready to start school.
Lisa, if you are in the city or LI there are good, holistic doctors who will work with parents that do not vaccinate or delay vaccines. You do NOT have to stick with the same provider if they are bullying you or trying to “find something wrong”. That is totally ridiculous. I wish you all the best. For iron, all you need to do is find some Rosita cod liver oil and things like pate/chicken liver mousse/any time of organ meat. They are loaded with iron naturally. Be careful with any supplements/over the counters. Also look into the Weston A. Price books and website when you get a chance. It is wonderful.
Hi LS
Do you have any Holistic doctors name that I can look into? Thanks in the city preferably.
Lisa,
For the School Exemption on Religious Grounds, you should wait until the FIRST day of Legally Mandated School and then present the Principle with a Letter requesting an Accommodation.
So in NY State that is Kindergarten – Not PreK. The law says you have 14 days from the start of school to envoke section 2164-9 of New York State Statutory Law.
It is in this time you let the school know of your intentions. NOT before. I know its hard to hold on til then.
I personally goofed and sent a letter to my kids school in PreK. I was applying for a Religious Exemption. The Principle sent me back a letter saying I was an idiot for my choice and legally PreK has no requirements for Immunizations and the Principle could not “help me” see the light until Kindergarten.
Interesting thing is that Day Cares follow the same law as instructed by New York State Article 47.25.
So, you have time. Please don’t jump the gun as it makes things harder in the long run to get an exemption.
Hello wonderful people!
My daughter will start pre-k at the the Waldorf school in September.
Yesterday the school sent out and email asking for immunization or exempt form , or the child will be missing out school is September if they don’t have either one on file .
We are in NYC as well , and where do I start ? Can you help me write a religious exemption form ?
I must say the school knows about us not vaccinating but they just need a filed form on file 🙂
Thank you !
Check out this Web Site!!
https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/cp/complaint_frontpage.jsf
Its a GOV website!!
Ok your law is Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII section 201 for Public Schools that do not allow Religious Exemptions, or in the case of Browns Bill 277, the WHOLE state of California can COMPLAIN!
Mike Pence is AWESOME!!!
yashi – I guess I am not needed so much anymore….
Good Afternoon. I currently accepted a position at a local hospital in Tennessee. Of course part of your employment screening is a mandated flu vaccine and a Tdap. They pulled Titers on me today because I am unable to get my prior vaccination records (waiting on those results). Have you had any luck with anyone filing a religious exemption for healthcare workers with mandated vaccine requirements? I have a lot of autoimmune disease in my family which of course doesn’t matter because I currently don’t have any symptoms. My aunt (my mothers twin) went into kidney failure after a hospital mandated flu vaccine. I’m not sure if I should leave this information out of my letter and keep it straight forward. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much!
Jessica
Yes, we’ve helped. No luck needed.
There are Laws to protect your position.
Thank you Megan! I combined yours and Yashis and created the perfect letter. Taking it to the Health Department today and BOOM, I’m sure I’ll get my exemption! Couldn’t have done it without you two!
Please keep us informed to your progress. The community would LOVE to share in your JOY!
Regarding vaccinating the animals that we choose as Pets:
God gave us charge and dominion over animals to do with as we please…but that never meant that we are allowed to torture, abuse, or subject them to known harm. We can kill for meat, OR we can raise animals as a family pets. In raising an animal as a pet, it is imperative that we do not knowingly do anything that brings them harm because God DOES say that a man’s character is known by how he treats the animals in his care.
God would not be pleased if I went willy nilly to the Vet and got vaccines KNOWING full well that those very shots could easily bring a lifetime of misery and health related issues to it…even death. As a responsible pet owner, I am mandated by God to do the right thing by the animals that are in my charge. This means that I will do my due diligence and research just as I would for my children. I will not inject a vaccine that has Mercury, Formaldehyde, Aluminum, Modified Live Viruses, Killed Viruses, and various other adjuvants that are known to risk harm to it in the name of protecting it from a possible disease. I ALSO must protect my animal from exposing it to the types of environments that can bring harm to them ie keeping them out of grooming salons, dog parks, kennels, vet clinics and public places where they can easily contract disease while they are young and have undeveloped immunity systems. I also must protect PEOPLE from my animals which means that they do not get to run the neighborhood, and the list goes on.
If I were going to kill for meat, I would be charged to do it in the most humane way possible, and not subject the animal to torture or unnecessary prolonged pain. I do not believe it honors God to kill simply for sport. What type of person would enjoy watching or doing this??
The more research I have done regarding vaccinating my new puppy, the more compelled I feel to NOT do it, but instead, to feed it right and build up the immunity system instead, and keep it away from other animals who might bite or infect it with disease. I have spent many months researching for facts and reading what experts (who do not profit from vaccines) have to say. It is heartbreaking. This means that I am breaking the mandated Law regarding Rabies…which has every KNOWN adjuvant in it that can easily cause years of health issues, cancers, and eventually death.
I asbsolutely agree! I have 2 Shih Tzu, 9 & 7 years old. When I got them at 11 weeks, they only had their puppy shots from the breeder. I also chose not to vaccinate them after much research with my previous dogs. I asked the vet to do titres instead & the rabies titre came back positive & high enough. The vet was surprised. I explained to her that a Veterinary naturopath I knew online bred & raised Boston Terriers un-vaccinated & on raw food. She said all her puppies test positive on their titres because they develop antibodies from being exposed to other vaccinated dogs shedding vaccines.
My parents own a animal hospital and I will tell you first hand that Vaccines are just a money maker. My parents titer animals and DO not over vaccinate. Slowly more and more Veterinarians are learning that the most important part is Nutrition (kibble is garbage). If you give your animals proper nutrition (what they can get in the wild) they will be just fine. I’m sure you’ve done your research but raw diet is best and probiotics are HUGE (goats milk, fermented foods). Sorry to interrupt but this is a huge passion of mine, my fur babies are well fed and only had one series of vaccines when they were puppies and they are perfectly healthy. I don’t know if you follow Dr. Karen Becker but she is wonderful! 🙂
These methods should work for vaccinations for work required of hospital employees as well, correct? I am expecting to be hired by a city health organization and have been told that I will probably be asked to get vaccinations for EVERYTHING! I will refuse to do so but don’t want it to be a deal breaker.
Barbara, based on what I’ve learned from Living Whole Blog I posted a letter format for an Employee Request for Religious Accommodation here:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2017/12/asserting-your-vaccine-right-to.html
Megan is doing amazing work!
Thanks Ralph! For posting, commenting, and for the kind words. 😉
Hi guys, just wanted to update anyone interested that President Trump has formed a “Conscience and Religious Freedom” Division within the Health and Human Services Offices division. Here is the link with some info which may support some of your genuine religious exemptions for school/work:
http://vaxxter.com/trump-may-have-just-put-dagger-in-mandatory-vaccine-laws/
More on the new Trump religious freedom office here: http://bolenreport.com/severino-health-human-services-dhhs-ocr-wants-complain-vaccine-mandates/
I’ll see your Spades and add some TRUMP!
Executive Order No. 13798 SS 4, 82 Fed Reg 21675 (May 4, 2017)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download
Check this bad boy out!! I think this one Trumps the ones above….especially page 2
And Ill throw in for Kicks and Giggles!!
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
I live in New Jersey and my daughter will start daycare in February. The flu shot is required and we are totally against the flu shot for more reasons than one. Her father is Muslim and stated part of the flu shot contains gelatin which sometimes is made from pig. Can this be included in the religious exemption? I also read some of your example letters above and hope that I can take some pointers when I begin my letter.
If the Day Care received any Public Funds then they are subject to Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII section 201.
This is fancy talk for they must allow for a Religious Exemption from Immunization.
The legal talk is, “Religious Accommodation in a Place of Public Accommodation”
Ask your Day Care to QUOTE the Article that Governs them. Like in New York State it is Article 47.25
And in this Article it points to the State Law 2164. This State Law provides for a Religious Exemption in section 2164-9 so that the State Law is in Compliance with
Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII section 201.
Get them to tell you what law says you can not attend the Day Care without Immunizations. The Day Care has to have the employees familiar with the law, so an employee should be able to answer that question. If they can’t, there will be a Certificate of Operation hanging where it is VISIBLE under Glass. On that piece of paper should be a LAW number.
Copy the law number and then research it. That will tell you the Name of the Law. From there, you can read the law and find the State Statutory Law so you can find the Exemption Clause.
If your in a State like California that has Brown’s Bill 277, Just quote Federal Statute at them. Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII, Section 201. If they refuse, tell them you will sue them for violating your Civil Rights and Contact Jeff Sessions at the Attorney General’s Office of the United States of America to file a complaint as directed in Section
SUITS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
SEC. 407. (a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint inwriting–
SUITS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
SEC. 407. (a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint inwriting–
(1) signed by a parent or group of parents to the effect that his or their minor children, as members of a class of persons similarly situated, are being deprived by a school board of the equal protection of the laws, or
In this case, a Day Care is substituted for “School Board”
(c) “Public school” means any elementary or secondary educational institution, and “public college” means any institution of higher education or any technical or vocational school above the secondary school level, provided that such public school or public college is operated by a State, subdivision of a State, or governmental agency within a State, or operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property, or funds or property derived from a governmental source.
If they get ANY Government funds….they are classified as a School!!
So Call it Day Care or call it school, they still have to provide Religious Accommodation in a Place of Public Accommodation.
Nifty eh?
Yashi
How do I word the nyc school religious exemption letter
Did you get any help yet?
[email protected]
Yashi
I cant seem to find the law for New York City schools. Do you happen to know where I can find it or what it is? This blog is the BEST most informative blog I have found on religious exemptions. Thank you so much!!! I am a mom of a soon to be 4 and 2 year old and I am starting this very scary process and would like to have as much ammunition as needed to be able to keep my children healthy.
Many many Thanks,
Marie
Marie
I to am in NY and I have my religious Accommodation in the form of a Religious Exemption afforded to me under the Statutory Law 2194-9 of New York State.
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf
This is your Law. Please be aware of section 5 that states you have 14 days since the START of Kindergarten to submit your letter of request.
I have Megan’s permission to post my email on her blog which as you said, is FANTASTIC and I can walk you through the process.
[email protected]
Sorry It is section 7 that give the time – section 5 says that you need a letter from your GP telling the school what Immunizations you have given to your child and section 9 says that NO letter is Required.
This section 9 is referred to as a NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE so that the Statutory law can conform to the FEDERAL STATUTE – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 section 201,202 and 203.
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html
TITLE II–INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
SEC. 201. (a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
Please note that no where does it say that you need to “declare” your Religion, only that your being discriminated against in a place of Public Accommodation by the Public School refusing your request and forcing Segregation on you – ie you must be home schooled.
NEVER SAY YOUR RELIGION!
Hi Yashi how do I word my sons school exemption letter
Very carefully… or something like…this…
Letter,
To Whom it may concern…
Please consider this letter for exemption from Immunization or my child ____________________.
I feel uncomfortable talking about my religious belief because I find it hard to convince others with my words how I feel inside. I do not want people to be prejudiced against me. Worshiping my God and my God alone as he is the Giver and Sustainer of Life is a sacred act for me. I believe that to put my hope, faith, trust and belief in something else that can give and sustain life would be a form of worship to it. It is written, my God is a Jealous God and to worship something, or someone else, is a sin. My God teaches me to respect everyone and that my highest calling is to love everyone no matter who they are or where they come from or who or what they worship. Life is a gift from God and therefore I believe all life is sacred. For my God is a God of Love and he loves even me. Because of this I am called to love others, include you who are reading this letter.
I object to vaccination in any form on the grounds that it is against my Strongly Held Religious Belief to Freely Worship my God and Him alone.
On October 6, 2017 The Attorney General released a Memorandum for all Executive Departments and Agencies regarding Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty. In this memorandum Jeff Sessions first point is, that the freedom of religion is a fundamental right of paramount importance, expressly protected by federal law. The free exercise of religion is not a mere policy preference to be traded against other policy preferences. It is a fundamental right.
The Attorney General continues to say that The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) prohibits the federal government from substantially burdening any aspect of religious observance or practice unless imposition of that burden on a particular religious adherent satisfies strict scrutiny. Furthermore, a government action substantially burdens an exercise of religion under RFRA if it bans an aspect of an adherent’s religious observance or practice, compels and act inconsistent with that observance or practice, or substantially pressures the adherent to modify such observance or practice.
Because the government can not second-guess the reasonableness of a religious belief or the adherent’s assessment of the religious connection between the government mandate and the underlying religious belief, the substantial burden test focuses on the extent of governmental compulsion involved. In general, a government action that bans an aspect of an adherent’s religious observance or practice compels an act inconsistent with that observance or practice, or substantial pressures the adherent to modify such observance or practice, will qualify as a substantial burden on the exercise of religion.
It is my belief that my it is my right to worship my God because he Loves me. My worship comes out of that love. I believe that my God is a jealous God and that I am to have no other God’s before Him as HE is The One True God, Creator, Ruler and Sustainer of all life. It is because of this Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief that Immunization thought the act of Vaccination is against my Belief as I believe it to be a form of religious worship.
Now, this burden that has been placed upon me is in direct conflict with my Strongly Held Religious Belief.
I will now prove that my Religious Belief to be free to worship my God and Him alone will pass the burden of proof test so you will have no doubt to second-guess the reasonableness of my religious belief and grant me my Religious Accommodation in the from of an exemption from Immunization.
It is generally understood that if I receive an Immunization it will bring Immunity against disease – preventing death.
So we must first ask these questions.
1) What is Immunity?
2) What does Immunity provide?
3) Is Immunization through the Act of Vaccination of Supreme Importance?
4) Do I Trust the Vaccination to bring Immunity
5) Do I Believe the Vaccination will do no Spiritual Harm?
6) Do I have Faith in the Vaccination
7) What is a Religion?
8) Is Immunity 100%
9) The Doctrine of Justification
10) What is a False Religion?
11) What is Prostelytization?
12) What is the Doctrine of Salvation?
It is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that helps establish Laws regarding Immunizations through Vaccinations. It would be said they are the establishment of paramount importance in this matter. So much so, their recommendations are mandated by all government departments, federal and state.
The CDC.gov says that they Protect Lives/Save People 24/7. The CDC has trade marked this statement. What does the CDC protect and save us against?
Death and Disease is the only answer. The CDC claims to offer 24 hours a day/7 days a week, or 100% Immunity only to those who are Vaccinated. “CDC is the nation’s health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect America” is a direct quote from http://www.CDC.gov
Immunity – is understood to provide protection. A Vaccine Immunity is understood to provide protection against death from disease.
(Insert Personal Story here – how your child will die without Vaccines)
They told me the only way for me to be save my children from death, was to be Vaccinated! BUT I already HAVE a Savior that has the Power that Saves me From DEATH and Disease!
The act of Vaccination to achieve Immunity is of such importance that laws are written and I am forced to get a Religious Accommodation in the form of an exemption. It can be said, and you may agree with the statement that, “Immunizations are of Supreme Importance”. A religion is Defined as, a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
Therefore, a Religion of Immunity has been established by this FACT, and the government backed web site, CDC.gov, has made it a top priority, its highest pursuit to Immunize EVERYONE, as it believes this is of Supreme Importance. Just ask your Doctor how important it is to be Immunized! Or turn on the TV and see the commercials. One commercial shows Grandpa as a WOLF ready to devour his grandchildren because he has not been Vaccinated. Then after getting the Immunization, grandpa turns back to his normal, human, loving self. My child was shaken at this commercial and feared I was a big bad wolf going to destroy everyone because of our religious belief! The CDC invaded my living room trying to indoctrinate my children against me, IN MY OWN HOUSE!
Trust is defined as a firm belief in the reliability, ability, or strength of someone or something. The CDC is so firm in its ability to provide 100% Immunity that is says they Protect Lives/Save People 24/7. That is a claim that ONLY a GOD can MAKE!
The CDC would have you believe that My God is Irrelevant and can not do anything. They would say my religion is worthless and the God I worship has no power against death and disease. They would have you believe that my God saves no one and He even lets people get sick and die. They diminish my religion and call me a religious nut as what I believe is nothing more than old fables to an out of touch god that knows nothing of the NEW Science.
Not only this, we are told to believe – to have a firm conviction as to the goodness, efficacy, ability of the Act of Vaccinating to Provide us with instant Immunity. We are to put our Faith – complete trust and confidence – in this Immunity to save us from death and disease. We should worship this Immunity.
That brings us to the fact that Vaccines are not 100%.
SAY WHAT?
THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION
As an example of this;
It is said that the Flu Shot “MAY” only be 25% effective in granting 100% Immunity! They tell us that the pathogen mutated and the Vaccine is useless but “Some protection is better then none.” Or that you need 3 doses of the MMR Vaccine given at 3 Different times to get “Full Immunity” proving that Immunization is False. They say better some Immunity than none at all.
It is because of these reasons that I strongly Believe that the Government has established the FALSE Religion of Immunity.
But wait it is not enough for them to make wild claims that they can grant Immunity from death and disease. Now they have to Proselytize everyone into worshiping this false god of Immunity! This False god has now established the doctrine of Collective Salvation! They call this Hear Immunity.
THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION
When enough of the population are vaccinated, the disease can no longer spread, protecting those at greatest risk.
This is what is against my strongly held personal religious belief. I will not offer myself on the alter of vaccination to the false god of immunity for your collective salvation.
Forcing me to engage in what I believe to be a religious act to a false god to grant me immunity from death, so I do not become Satan Incarnate and bring death and destruction to those WHO HAVE BEEN Vaccinated already, is beyond my comprehension. How can someone, like myself remove the Immunity from someone who has already been Vaccinated, unless the people getting the Vaccine are NOT immune in the first place. Thus proving the CDC can not save anyone or protect from anything 24/7.
Justice Robert H Jackson said in regards to the Compelling Interest Doctrine, Employment Division VS Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990) that, “As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause.”
The religious practice that is being targeted is worship.
Having proved beyond a reasonable doubt that my being forced to engage in worship to a false god is against my religion. I believe that engaging in the Religious Act of Immunization to the false god is a sin.
In Conclusion, Thomas Aquinas (1556) once said, “”Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions puts it this way.
On Friday October 6th, he said,
“Our freedom as citizens has always been inextricably linked with our religious freedom as a people. It has protected both the freedom to worship and the freedom not to believe. Every American has a right to believe, worship, and exercise their faith. The protections for this right, enshrined in our Constitution and laws, serve to declare and protect this important part of our heritage.”
James Madison said:
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
It is for these reasons that I am thanking you for granting my request for a Religious Accommodation in the form of an Exemption From Immunization for my children (name them)
I will not offer their bodies on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for your Collective Salvation.
I look forward to working with the School District in the many years to come.
I trust that my rights under the Civil rights Act of 1964 Title VII section 201, 202, 203 will not abridged and that you will not continue to be prejudiced against me in the future because of my Religion.
Sincerely Yours,
Yashi, Do you want me to put this into a post?
– Megan
This was amazing! Thank you! Doing this now in FL for my son.
This is awesome. Really well-written, we’ll-researched, and even humorous. Thanks for your help!
Another Praise report.
I have a 5th Confirmed Religious Exemption from Immunizations Email today!
So 5 and counting…
Awesome Yashi!
Can you help me with mine email me [email protected]
Please and thank you!ASAP!
What about for work. What if they say you have to have a hep a shot? Do you think just typing up a letter and getting it notarized is fine or will I need to go further?
Dorcia,
Please read farther down in this blog. Your answer is here and there are example letters posted below as well.
Yashi
Thank you. God bless.
Hello Megan,
My name is Star and I gave decided to send my 4year old son to Montessori school here in Memphis, TN. I have had him vaccinated previous before I saw the light. So he never got his shots from age 1 to now (so I stopped before he turned 1). I would like to send him to this school but the application already states that he can’t even be considered for enrollment without a current immunization record. What else could I do?
Give them the record then. Just write it yourself. Immunization record, none given.
Then wait for the next letter and see just how prejudiced against your religion they are and use that letter against them for enrollment.
Hey Megan,
I’m in the process of writing a religious exemption. Can I use some of your statements verbatim, or would that be plagiarizing?
Thanks, Kathy
I am fine with you using whatever you need from this post to write your exemption. 🙂
Kathy, is the exemption for work or school, for yourself or a minor?
yashi
Hello, I have 2 kids ( 2 and 3 year old) I live in Illinois and I am a Christian. Any advise to get them into a private pre school where the 3 year old had the first vaccines and was almost in a coma for 3 days and my 2 year old whom we don’t vaccinated at all. Is Illinois State different in any way? can apply your knowledge to a private pre school? Thks Rod
Illinois offers both religious and medical exemptions. The part you fill out for the exemption is on the back of the school vaccination form. Just state your religious objects and have your family physician sign off. It sounds like one my qualify for a medical exemption. Private schools should give you no issue. NVIC.org would have more info.
Thank you Megan
Hello, I am in a bit of a predicament. I am attending college right now in Massachusetts. I am in a health program and they are requiring vaccinations. I have gotten vaccines before but now I am told that they are expiring and I must get the vaccines again by next week or I am out of my health program. I do not want to take any more vaccines because I have been doing a lot of research and a vaccine almost killed me in the past. Doctors have vaccinated me before against my wishes and I do not want that to happen ever again. I tried to get out of the vaccinations based on my religious beliefs (I am stronger in my faith now and do not believe in vaccines anymore). My school however says I cannot use that exemption because I had been vaccinated before. The vaccine they are forcing me to take, the CDC states on their website that it is only until age 11 and would be harmful for adults. I do not know what to do. Please help.
Aria,
Sorry you’re in this situation. Simply tell your school that your religious beliefs have changed since you were first vaccinated (e.g. you didn’t know there were aborted baby tissues, protein, cells, and DNA in vaccines and you are now a Christian and your beliefs oppose this). Whether your parents had you vaccinated has no bearing on whether you (as an adult) choose to get vaccinated. There’s nothing prohibiting you from filling out a religious objection simply because you were vaccinated before. If they still give you a hard time, push that but also get a titers test. If you test for titers, you should be able to opt out. However, I’d push the religious exemption, as the person who probably gave you this info. probably wasn’t considering what I mentioned. 😉 Feel free to show them state law for MASS. as well which you’ll find at NVIC.org.
Yes, tell them that you had an Epephani…
https://www.google.com/search?q=epephani&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Can we use a religious exemption for our pets as well as our kids?
That is a Theological question.
Here is a Short answer…
God prohibited the killing of a man (Exodus 20:13), but he placed no such restriction on the killing of animals. Man is made in God’s image, so man must not kill one of his own kind. Animals, it would seem, are different from man. If they do have a “soul” that survives death, it is different from man’s. It does not need redemption. Christ died to save the souls of human beings, not animals.
So it would not be a “sin” to vaccinate a dog or a cat or any animal – ie eternal damnation would not be in play.
Therefore, a “Christian” would be subject to the Law of the Land as it would not Violate the Law of Christ.
Here is the reference web page…
https://www.thoughtco.com/do-animals-have-souls-701974
You are amazing! Thank you so much!!
My daughter has double majored and is graduating from community college (where we have never been asked about immunizations) and will be applying to several four year senior institutions in North Carolina in the next month. These institutions require immunizations but checking on-line we found that the actual law allows for medical and religious exemptions. There is no form for requesting religious exemptions in North Carolina. It states “the person requesting the exemption must write a statement of their religious objection to immunization, including the name and date of birth of the person for whom the exemption is being requested.” It also says, “Statements of religious objection to immunization do not need to be notarized, signed by a religious leader, or prepared by an attorney. They do not need to be submitted to the state for review of approval.”
My daughter is anxious about drafting this letter. I thought we would read through everything you have written and go ahead and write it, but we wonder how much is too little to say and how much is too much. Is it OK to be brief and then see if it works or is that too risky that they would then call her. She is fearful of representing herself if there is a personal phone call or interview about it and knowing on the spot what to say. On the other hand she is concerned to write too much and cause red flags for debate. The college she is passionate about attending is highly selective. Any tips you can give us will be appreciated. It would be such a sad thing if she was not able to attend there as they are especially interested in her after seeing her portfolio.
Thank you.
First let me say grats to her for the education!
The First letter says not to much. Just quote the laws like this… o ____________
I am requesting a Religious Accommodation in regards to Immunization as it is against my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief. I have ONE belief and only ONE religious Objection. My Objection is Not Moral or Philosophical but purely Religious.
In the Supreme court case Employment Div V Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990) it was decided that if a law targets a single Religious Act then it is unconstitutional to force an employee to be compliant with current mandates.
Since my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief that Immunity is given as a direct result from Worship to the God of my choice then Immunity offered with Human Hands as worship to an Idol is in direct conflict with my belief. My God and My God alone offers Immunity so long as I continue to worship Him and not Idols.
Thank you in advance for granting me a Religious Accommodation as afforded to me by the following laws,
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/494/872/case.html
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
And the following law is directed at the “Common Good” which I call the Lesser Evil.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/200/case.html
Please read these over carefully as I have invested a great deal of time and consideration in this matter as it is of the utmost importance to me.
Do not ask me what religion I am so that you will not show yourselves to be Prejudiced against my Religion and thus in violation of the 14th Amendment.
Once again, thank you for the Religious Accommodation to be free to worship my God as I see fit.
Sincerely yours…
Thank you for your help. It is a sad day when your child can not be educated because of this immunization thing. And their education counts for their whole life. I am deeply saddened for our nation.
All- I am so grateful to have stumbled across this earlier today. I sent a request to my employer for religious exemption from the flu vaccine, with a letter I wrote by some of the comments I tweaked and it worked. I cannot believe it!!Thank you thank you thank you
A letter for flu For ANYONE in Any State. I quote Federal Statutes.
Please do not use this as your FIRST LETTER, but rather your second.
To
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
I find it very disturbing that you have chosen to rejected my Religion and are forcing an immunization on me against my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief To Worship My God and my God alone as I see fit. (14th Amendment Violation). I can only assume that this is because you believe in the Principle that Sustains Mandatory Vaccination as established in the Supreme Court Decision of Jacobson v. Massachusetts 197 U.S. 11 (1905) as quoted by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr in his decision of Buck v Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927).
(Give them a copy of your rejected religious accommodation if you have one to prove they are prejudiced against your religion by either not allowing any religious accommodations – illegal by federal statutes – or that you did not disclose your religion thus they are showing prejudiced by allowing some religions but not your – if you told them.. but your not telling them)
I will not be brief as my religious objection in this matter is not broad and not narrow but Singular. I am now forced not only to prove but to convince you of what is legally mine and unalienable right granted by The Creator.
“It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.” James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (June 20, 1785) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
On June 6, 2017 is was written like this…
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
The Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty memorandum issued by The Attorney General Jeff Sessions section states, AND I QUOTE:
2. The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s religious beliefs.
The Free Exercise Clause protects not only the right to believe or the right to worship; it protects the right to perform or abstain from certain physical acts in accordance with one’s belief. Federal statutes, including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”), support that protection, broadly defining the exercise of religion to encompass all aspects of observance and practice whether or not central to, or required by, a particular religious faith.
No one with a strongly held personal Religious Belief can be forced into the physical act of Vaccinating as a form of worship to the false god of Immunity.
Let me explain;
In the United States of America:
1) I am free to worship the God of my choice. 1st amendment says NO ONE shall prohibit my right to the free exercise of my Religion.
2) My Personal God demands that I only worship Him and Him alone as He, my God is a Jealous God. To bow down and worship a false god IS a sin.
3) The “Powers That Be” have established a religion and have violated the 1st amendment. They “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”, the false religion of Immunity.
4) I Strongly believe that the CDC.gov web site proves point 3 when it claims 24/7 saving lives / protecting people. This proves they are a God because what do they protect you from 24/7? That is their motto. It is trade marked. But what do they protect you from? The only answer is, Death and Disease.
The “Powers That Be” have informed me that I had to fill out a form with what religion I take part of and submit to the hospital. I was just told by my manager that religious exemptions are hard to be granted at the hospital I work at. She said that they are very particular when it comes to exemptions. How dare they sit in judgement.. Just because the powers that be “feel” it is to EASY to simply check a box requesting a Religious Accommodation and people will abuse it does not give ANYONE the RIGHT to refuse me bases on what Religious BOX they put me in. Worship is a PERSONAL matter when it comes to a PERSONAL act of Immunization in MY Personal Body. Collective Worship this is NOT.
FURTHERMORE
That statement alone is proof that The “Powers That Be” believe that vaccines protect us from death and disease, 24/7. I believe this to be FALSE. I strongly believe that to claim the power over death and disease is to claim that they are gods. Only my God has the POWER over life and also death. My GOD and MY GOD ONLY.
5) Immunizing can and does KILL. Immunization does not protect 24/7.
FACT:
“The new study shows exactly why egg-based manufacturing is a problem for the H3N2 subtype. As H3N2 influenza has become more prevalent, scientists formulating the seasonal flu vaccine have sought to include this virus and teach the human immune system to fight it. Despite this effort, recent flu vaccines have proven only 33 percent effective against H3N2 viruses.”
Journal Reference:
Nicholas C. Wu, Seth J. Zost, Andrew J. Thompson, David Oyen, Corwin M. Nycholat, Ryan McBride, James C. Paulson, Scott E. Hensley, Ian A. Wilson. A structural explanation for the low effectiveness of the seasonal influenza H3N2 vaccine. PLOS Pathogens, 2017; 13 (10): e1006682 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006682
The Flu Immunization is NOT 100% or 24/7 as the CDC MOTTO says. That is a bold faced lie. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5057391/Flu-vaccine-20-effective-winter.html It does not prevent death and disease 100% to 100% of the people 24/7 who choose to worship the false god.
If it is NOT 100% then it is a FALSE Immunity.
Either I am Immune or I am NOT. True or False. Does the religious act of being Immunized with a Vaccine made with Human Hands grant me 100% Immunity? Does it grant EVERYONE 100% Immunity. Does it grant ANYONE 100% Immunity?
For you who are reading this right now, in your mind you are trying to JUSTIFY this statement saying, “nothing is 100%” or “some immunity is better than none”.
However, I strongly disagree. My God is 100%. My God offers me 100% Immunity from DEATH if I continue to WORSHIP Him and Him ONLY. This is NOT a Broad Statement. Forcing me to put my faith, to believe that I might be chosen to receive, to be worthy enough for 100% Immunity from death, by worshiping Immunity made with HUMAN HANDS to this false god is NOT a religious act I believe in.
I have faith – strong belief in my God, in my doctrines of a religion, based on my spiritual apprehension rather than the “NEED” of proof. Yet you are forcing me to prove not only MY religion but also that the “Powers The Be” have ESTABLISHED one!
You are in need for me to convey my strongly held Personal Religious Belief as Proof to my Spiritual BELIEF because your prejudiced against me. The fact is, I will only Worship MY God AS I SEE FIT no matter what you think or believe I should or should not be doing. I shall be FREE to exercise my religion.
6) The “Powers That Be” justifies itself saying some immunity is better than none proving its false immunity.
7) I need to be proselytized into what I strongly believe is false religion. A religion is a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
This is of such supreme importance to you that I am now being forced to prove to you beyond any reasonable doubt that MY GOD SAVES, that my strongly held personal religious BELIEF, that I am only to WORSHIP MY God and Him ONLY as HE controls immunity is of supreme importance TO ME!!!
You demand Proof!
Your preconceived notion that my belief is not sufficient for SALVATION, that my God is worthless and irrelevant and now you threaten me because your Belief in Immunity Made with Human Hand as worship to this IDOL is to provide 24/7 Immunity in YOUR Religion is the true religion. I must be apostatized or banished. I must be assimilated!
8) THE “Powers That Be” now writes laws or codes, religious laws and policies, to enforce their religion upon me.
They call this the Doctrine of Herd Immunity.
Unless everyone is Immunized NO ONE is Immune.
This is the VERY reason I am left to JUSTIFY and Establish my SINGLE most Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief. To Freely Worship MY GOD and HIM ONLY. The fact is I believe my God and ONLY my God Controls Immunity.
9) COMPELLING INTEREST DOCTRINE -1990 supreme court ruling, Employment Division VS Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990) states you can not target a specific religious belief! I can not be forced to WORSHIP what I STRONGLY BELIEVE IS A FALSE GOD.
10) Now I have Proven to you that “The Powers That Be” have established a religion and are forcing me into it by requesting I justify myself to you in full view of my 1st and 14th Amendment rights to be free from ANY religion. I will not be Immunized as its against my STRONGLY HELD PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEF! It is against MY RELIGION!
More-so, you have established that your religion is more important than mine and have shown yourselves to be prejudiced against me by demanding that I justify my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief to you in my fight for my unalienable right to be free from your religion.
What gives you that RIGHT!
Please provide me with the “Laws” that grant you this Power that I must believe as you do, that I must put my faith and trust and bow down and worship your god, the one you CHOOSE for me!
I will not now nor ever worship this false god and bow down and offer my body in the physical act of worship on the alter of Vaccination to this False god of Immunity for the herd or Collective Salvation!
This proves beyond a reasonable doubt that you have placed a hardship upon me forcing me to choose between sinning against my God and my employment. This is a Religious BURDEN to me.
At the very beginning I mentioned the argument against the Common Good. It is the Principle of forced Immunization for the health and safety of the public.
If you believe in Herd Immunity let me explain to you what the “Principle” actually is that some people blindly believe in.
Here it is…
Buck vs Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927) ” “for the protection and health of the state”, known as the “greater Good” or the Compelling Interest, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr said this, “The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11.. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/200/case.html
You see, the Principal of forcing Vaccinations all in the Name of the Common Good to sterilized over 65,000 WOMEN who were in the Government’s care so they could be RAPED and tortured without causing pregnancy is wrong. This Principle is the Spirit of the Common Good or the Compelling Interest argument. This cutting peoples organs out so they will not have the ability to have a child EVER has some serious moral issues in itself but it certainly does not line up with my Religion. Supporting RAPE and Torture is vile. This is not a Lesser Evil but Pure Evil It sickens me.
Still to this day, 90 years later, I find people pushing this, “Principle that sustains compulsory Vaccination is broad enough” to terminate employment on the religious and simply say that my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief is irrelevant?
If you support the COMMON GOOD then you MUST also support its Principals and your saying I need to be Terminated in my employment because the Principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough?
I’ll leave you with this thought…
Carrie’s daughter, Vivian, was born while Carrie was in the institution. She was very smart and finished at the head of her class twice according to school records found after the ruling. Carrie was Raped in the institution and to prevent other children like Vivian from being born in the institutions, since the state was the custodian of these unwanted kids, science provided a way out, a lesser evil if you will. Instead of prosecuting the offenders for rape and compensating the interned and their offspring, the Supreme Court simply made the legal right for committed to be sterilized and locked up where no one would see what was really happening.
The argument was for the Common Good, now called the Compelling Interest. What’s best for a civil society? In their minds no one cared about these people any way, why should tax payers pay for bastardized children?
Surely you can not be promoting this principle of “COMMON GOOD” and seeking compulsory vaccinations because if you do, then are you not saying, “three generations of imbeciles are enough”?
So it is on these grounds that I am now demanding a Religious Accommodation from all forms of Immunization to maintain my employment because the principle that sustains my strongly held personal religious belief is narrow enough to be an inalienable right granted to me from The Creator.
Sincerely yours,
Hello,
I am moving to NYC and am writing a religious exemption letter for my daughter. She is only 2 and i will not be entering her into any preschool or daycare i will be homeschooling. Where exactly do i send my letter and should i address it to? Was also wondering if you could provide the sources for your section on the contaminants in vaccines if there are any.
Thank you
There is no letter for you. You are segregating your children by choice.
However if you should choose to change your mind, here are the laws for NY STATE
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf NY STATE School Law
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment 1st Amendment
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download Attorney General Jeff Sessions
With this Law NO ONE can ask you your RELIGION to be Prejudiced against you.
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html Civil Rights act Title VII Section 201, 202, 203. This is so they can not be prejudiced against you in a PUBLIC PLACE. such as a SCHOOL!
And Finally,
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163
This was written by James Madison June 20, 1785, and explains what the inalienable right is.
So there are your Laws in NY state that apply to you. There is a “Law” that is quoted in NY STATE that is not a law you need to follow.
It is New York State title 10. The Section the government hopes you will comply with is called VOLUME A-1A. It has NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE’s in it and is subject to Statutory Law 2164 that is quoted above.
So there are the laws and you need a strategy to apply them in a Sincerely Held Personal Religious way.
You also have to make your argument SINGULAR. Immunization MUST be against something that is Singular and is against your Believe to Immunize.
This is the hard part. Employment Div V Smith 1990 494 U.S. 872 says that a law can not target a “SINGLE” religious ACT.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/494/872
So what can be the SINGLE most Supreme Belief making your Religion against Immunization?
But there is another catch, the COMMON GOOD. How do you justify not getting immunized and risking public health because your not Immunized and can pass death and disease onto say a baby. How can a religion justify that type of death that is said to be preventable?
How do you go against the Common GOOD? Is there a way? Well there is. You simply have to show that the Common Good is really a Lesser EVIL.
And thanks to Oliver Wendel Holms Jr, one of the most colorful Supreme court Justices ever to sit on the bench. He single handedly gave us this answer in his decision Buck v Bell in 1927.
So this is the Common Good that we are fighting.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/200/case.html
This is the words, ” The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U. S. 11. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
And there you have the common good – a lesser evil.
See Carrie Buck was sterilized by the Government. She was the daughter of someone in an institution. Then she had a daughter, Vivian – who was very bright but died while in Foster Care.
But how did Carrie Buck become pregnant while in the institution? She had to have been raped. So to cover it up, the States decided that in the interest of the Public Good, or the Greater Good as they had done with the Small Pox Vaccine, the Supreme court decided to CUT OPEN the women and tear out their reproductive Organs.
65,000 people were sterilized while under the State’s care in an institution!
So The Principle that forces us to abandon God is broad enough to do anything the GOVERNMENT seeks fit!
So here is your answer. Something Religious, something Singular and Something that Defeats an EVIL.
That answer is, Worshiping your God. That’s the answer.
It is written in a Holy Book, (And I quote) “Worship The Lord and He will bless your Bread and Water and remove sickness from among you.”
This is IMMUNITY!
Vaccines are a perception of 100% Immunity from Human Hands. That is against your Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief.
Tada.
I have all of them laws memorized. Please do the same.
If she’s not going to daycare or preschool then you do not have to write anything to anyone. It’s just the schools that want it. A lot of private schools, depending on the area, will take an exemption (medical or religious). If you’re homeschooling then nothing is required. No one needs to be informed and it’s your private business.
It is possible to join online religions that forbid vaccines and go about getting exemption on religious ground. Religions like FellowdivOrg can be joined on the web directly, and they have a video of Harvard Medical professor Dr. Martha Herbert talking about the vaccines autism relationship. There is also a clip there of Dr. Mercola and Dr. Palevsky explaining the problems vaccines can cause. Many families are torn between “science v. religion”, and seeing scientific explanation from respected medical professionals settled the issue for our family.
Hello! I’m a healthcare worker and wanting to write a religious exemption letter. When I started working at this hospital, they checked my titer and I need an updated MMR vaccine. However, I want out of because of my religious beliefs. They say I either get the vaccine or lose my job. How do I go about this? I need help!
Following!! I am in the same boat right now in PA. I am a RN, I accepted a position at our local hospital and they are telling me I must receive the flu vaccine and others (if antibodies are not present) to get hired. The only exemption they said they “accept” is a medical exemption.
Oh they are making you, forcing you under threat of your financial well-being? Is this because of a belief in the COMMON GOOD that your religious rights are of no concern of theirs because they believe they are right and you are wrong?
There is no laws to support their side, but there are laws to support, your right to a Religious Accommodation.
Ill help you pen a letter. Please email me at [email protected].
For some light reading, lets look at where this argument for the “Common Good” comes from.
Buck v Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
The woman’s mother was placed in a mental institution. The daughter- Carrie Buck – was under the care of the State. Carrie Buck was raped and became pregnant and Vivian Buck was born.
Vivian was twice at the top of her class and was very smart, however she died at the age of 8.
The state wanted to sterilize all female inmates to prevent scandals and payouts. So the case was brought forward to the supreme court and Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr said this…in regards to the COMMON GOOD.
The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/274/200
The Principle he is talking about is the Principle of the Common Good.
So the Common Good says’ its ok to cut out the reproductive organs so the inmates can be raped without causing a scandal.
THAT’s the COMMON GOOD? Sounds like the LESSER EVIL.
This is the Principle your employers, A HOSPITAL is defending? Shame on them. Shame….shame.
Wow MMR? that’s nuts.
Please contact me at [email protected] and I will help you pen a letter.
Oh and get the “THEY SAY” your “Terminated without the Immunization” in a letter from them. If they are going to threaten you boldly we can use that against them.
Hi Yashi,
I am a RN and in the process of taking a casual position at my local hospital in the state of Pennsylvania. Can I please see a general religious vaccine exemption letter. I will be getting blood work done and they also want a copy of my immunization records. I will be denying any vaccinations and want to be prepared for when I have to submit the exemption letter.
Thank you so much
Hi Jessica,
First, this is Megan’s Blog and I thank her for letting me be a part of this community.
Second. A religious exemption for a Strongly Held PERSONAL religious belief does not come the way of a “FORM” letter where you just fill in the blanks. (maybe it should?)
According to the law, it should just be a box you check but the Anti-Religious people say, that is too easy. So they can not sit in judgement of your Religion so they ask for your Religion and then see what your Religion says about Immunizations.
Since EVERY mainline religion allows for Immunization, “the powers that be” say, ok your with them and they say its ok so no exemption for you cause that’s right from your religious Leaders!
But the Law does allow for a Strongly Held Personal Religious BELIEF. No s in belief. We don’t have beliefs in this matter we have ONE single Belief because “the powers that be” can not TARGET a single belief.
That belief is WORSHIP and your right to choose what or whom to Worship. A religion is something that someone ascribes as supreme importance.
Please read the posts below to piece together what you strongly believe in and write your OWN letter in your OWN words.
As for me, I will not offer as my son in the religious act of Worship as a sacrifice on the Alter of Vaccination to the False God of Immunity for their Collective Salvation (Herd Immunity).
The CDC motto is 24/7 Saving Lives/Protecting People. check it out at http://www.cdc.gov. (it is trade marked) That sound like they are saying that they control your very life and your death, like a god.
Keep reading the threads and you will see how I came to that strongly held personal religious belief.
My email is posted on here to if you need further assistance.
Remember, it has to be a SINCERE belief.
Hi Yashi,
You’re amazing.
That’s all.
– Megan
Thanks Megan.
I also have a Personal Praise Report.
I have 4 CONFIRMED Religious Exemption/Accommodation letters and 3 from people who have contacted me on this blog.
One of them I received in my email yesterday. The person was denied a Religious Accommodation because he did not meet the employer’s criteria for an exemption.
He was put on unpaid Administrative Leave from the HOSPITAL where he worked on Thursday Nov 9. He pieced together parts he was comfortable with that I have shared on this blog and sent it in to his employer before his Monday Nov 13th termination date.
After the employer reviewed the additional information he sent in Friday Nov 10, he revived notice of his religious accommodation and reinstatement of employment.
The state the man lives in is, CALIFORNIA.
Get this, our religions are DIFFERENT no where even close. The thing we have in common is that we are FREE to worship what or who we want EVEN IF I disagree. I can not Judge him and he can not judge me. That is LIBERTY!!!!
No one can say MY religion is BETTER than HIS religion. That is illegal. The employer can not pick and choose what you believe. No one can force you to worship Immunity made with HUMAN HANDS. That is to say, Immunity made with Human Hands is and IDOL and to Worship the idol makes it a FALSE god who has no power at all.
Ahhhh SWEEEEET LIBERTY!!!!
Look at you! Nice work friend. 🙂
Megan,
I was just scrolling down on your blog here and some of the posts are no longer there. If you would be in agreement, can you start another blog and I’ll post the letters (without commentary) that will get people an exemption for:
1) Work – from Flu Shot and all Immunization requirements
2) School Admittance – without saying a Religion or needing “letters from Religious Leaders”
Everything that I post on YOUR blog you can use, it all comes from my head. I have not copy-righted it.
The Lord said, just tell what He showed me. I’ll save up my treasure in heaven where moth nor rust destroy.
Someone should write a book.
I started this email address to. [email protected]
Hi Yashi, Can you email me at [email protected]? Are you asking to guest post on these topics on my site? To start a new blog would be insanely time consuming and expensive, but I would totally welcome guest posts from you on Living Whole. 🙂
Let’s talk.
Megan
Lots of people have asked for FORM LETTER for EXEMPTION FROM IMMUNIZATION TO ATTEND ANY SCHOOL IN THE USA.
So here it is. Please tear it apart and see if we can make it better.
Only criteria is, do not mention your religion and nothing about Moral or Ethical or Theological Dilemmas are to be considered.
Please use it as you see fit.
Dear ___________
I am seeking a Religious Accommodation in the form of a Religious Exemption from Immunization because it is with a strongly held personal religious belief that Immunization is against my single most sincere religious belief. That belief is that I am free to worship my God as I see fit as without prejudice as afforded to me by the Laws of The United States of America.
You will accommodate me with a Religious Exemption From Immunization for my child __________to attend __________________ School.
These laws are that support my position on the matter.
1st Amendment – “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
https://www.google.com/search?q=1st+amendment+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII section 201, 202 and 203.
(c) “Public school” means any elementary or secondary educational institution, and “public college” means any institution of higher education or any technical or vocational school above the secondary school level, provided that such public school or public college is operated by a State, subdivision of a State, or governmental agency within a State, or operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property, or funds or property derived from a governmental source.
(d) “School board” means any agency or agencies which administer a system of one or more public schools and any other agency which is responsible for the assignment of students to or within such system.
SEC. 203. No person shall (a) withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (b) intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202.
Forcing me to defend my Religious Conviction because you do not “feel” my asking for a Religious Exemption in your mind is right or that I do not meet some imaginary preconceived religious threshold is proof that you are being prejudiced against me and you are thus seeking to segregate my family from the PUBLIC SCHOOL by denying me entry to a PUBLIC PLACE.
Any attempt to force me to believe as you do is to proselytize me from my religion into your belief system. May I remind you that it is illegal for you to force your religion on me in as much as I can not force mine on you.
My right to send my Child to the PUBLIC school I pay taxes to is a RIGHT secured by section 202 which states,
SEC. 202. All persons shall be entitled to be free, at any establishment or place, from discrimination or segregation of any kind on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin, if such discrimination or segregation is or purports to be required by any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, rule, or order of a State or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html
Furthermore,
James Madison wrote The Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments [ca. 20 June] 1785
“The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.”
INSERT YOUR STATE LAW HERE –
FOR CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS ENTER BILL 277 THAT REJECTS GOD GIVEN IMMUNITY IN EXCHANGE FOR IMMUNITY MADE WITH HUMAN HANDS – IDOL WORSHIP
I am now telling you that I hold a genuine and sincere personal religious belief that Immunization by way of Human Hands is against my Religious belief. To worship an IDOL, a false god, is a sin.
As for the question of the Common Good, may I remind you of Superior Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr’s closing remarks in U.S. Supreme Court, Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927) when he said,
“The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U. S. 11. Three generations of imbeciles are enough”
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/200/case.html
The Supreme Court Judge said that Sterilizing poor young women before they could become pregnant after being raped in state institutions was for the COMMON GOOD.
He said that is the “spirit” of compulsory Vaccinations. By attempting to deny me my rights you must believe that cutting out the reproductive organs of these vulnerable young women and then sticking them back into the mental institutions and then to be repeatedly raped is for this Common Good of Society that you are defending!
Virginia’s sterilization statute provided the green light for similar laws in 30 states, under which an estimated 65,000 Americans were sterilized without their own consent or that of a family member.
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/39.html
Is this the “spirit” of the Common Good you are referring to when forcing the act of compulsory Medical Procedures on us without our consent?
Are we to be treated as Imbeciles?
Look, if you want to be sterilized that is your business but I do not believe 3 generation of Imbeciles are enough.
In closing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said this on June 6, 2017
“Religious liberty is not merely a right to personal religious beliefs or even to worship in a sacred place. It also encompasses religious observance and practice. Except in the narrowest circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law.”
The Attorney General Continues in Point 2
2. The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s religious beliefs.
“The Free Exercise Clause protest not just the right to believe or the right to worship; it protects the right to perform or abstain from performing certain physical acts in accordance with one’s belief. Federal statues, including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”), supports that protection, broadly defining the exercise of religion to encompass all aspects of observance and practice, whether or not central to, or required by, by a particular religious faith.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download
To Allow a Religious Exemption for one religion and not for my religion is to show you are prejudiced against me.
Whether or not Immunization is central to, or required by my religion is irrelevant in this matter because for me to go against my religious belief, is a sin.
To deny any and all religions of a Religious Accommodation as Gov Brown has done in signing Bill 277 into law , or to allow one religion and exemption over another is Tyranny!
This is a total Violation of my Inalienable RIGHTS to be free to worship, and abstain from the physical act of Immunizations even if you wrote laws “prohibiting the free exercise thereof” because in your mind your right and I am wrong. I am to be afforded Liberty!
I am choosing to abstain from Immunizations because it is against my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief.
It is in this light that I am now not requesting but demanding a Religious Accommodation in the form of an Exemption FROM immunization for _____________ in ________________school.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.
Sincerely yours,
Yashi’s form letter is awesome! The only things I’d add is the following:
I do not give Informed Consent to any vaccination. The correct ICD-10-CM Code that applies is Z28.1 “Vaccination not carried out for religious reasons.”
Thanks Ralph. Nice addition and a great point.
http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/Z00-Z99/Z20-Z29/Z28-/Z28.1
I LIKE IT!!!! oh to use it against themselves… NICE.
The 2018 edition of ICD-10-CM Z28.1 became effective on October 1, 2017.
Ralph knows his stuff!!
What is your email? I am in desperate need of help to write a religious exemeption letter for my child who i believe to already be vaccine injured. Please help
Hello, I am currently a student in the radiologic technology field in Connecticut. The hospital that I am currently doing my clinical rotations with is requiring all employees including students to a mandatory flu vaccination or you will not be able to continue with clinicians – failure from the program. I am vehemently opposed to the flu shot but the only option is a medical or religious exemption. Help – is there anything that I can do? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Carol,
Yes you can ask for a Religious Accommodation. The Human Resources office at the Hospital should be able to provide you with the form.
The form will most likely ask 8 points.
1) Name of religion. 2) Membership in a Church 3) What you practice/believe/observe 4) How you act in your belief and where you believe it 5) When you first believed 6) The Strength of your convictions 7) Why the policies are against your religion and which ones 8) Who is your Leader/Pastor/Minister/Priest and what their personal beliefs are in relation to yours.
Those are the questions they will most likely ask you so that they can Judge to see if your religion is worthy of an exemption.
“The Powers that BE” will establish your religion and then refuse you accommodation based on your answer.
Now, the hospital more than likely receives Federal Government Funds and as such, they are required to follow Federal Laws.
So what you can do is write a letter to them explaining your views.
You will not be answering any of their 8 questions in your letter. What you will be doing is putting your religion against their religion and thus proving they will be prejudiced against your religion forcing you to follow the precepts of their religion.
No one can force you to worship any thing or god (Idol) except the one you choose.
You will tell them that, your God is a Jealous God and HE demands you worship Him and Him only. For to worship and IDOL or a False god, is a sin.
This is the Reasonable Accommodation You can ask for, a Surgical Mask to be worn as your religious accommodation. That is a most reasonable accommodation at a hospital as they should have some on hand and will not require a substantial burden to be placed on them or you. A surgical mask is 80% EFFECTIVE than the flu shot. The Flu shot is 80% – 95% NOT EFFECTIVE!
Remember, the CDC.Gov says they they and they alone “Protect Lives/Save People 24/7” from death and disease. That is a Lie cause Immunization is NOT 100% and that is something MY GOD does. My God SAVES! So this claim is false and they worship Immunity. They are telling you it is of supreme importance and thus fitting the definition of a religion. – Google “what is Religion”
The CDC is promoting a Religion and they are saying YOU must be Assimilated or you must be Terminated. You can not worship your God as they believe your God is useless and pathetic and irrelevant.
They HAVE already proven they are against your religion and prejudiced against you by issuing you an ultimatum without offering a RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION.
Get the letter off and then let us know how they respond.
Please, Remember to THANK Megan for this blog. She has let me post on her blog.
These days there are simple religions that people can join online, such “Fellowdiv. org” (Fellowship of Divine Tenets), or another one like “Church of Illumination”, for the purpose of religious exemptions. The way I look vaccines is this. Even if it is as harmless as peanuts, some people are allergic to peanuts and can die from the exposure. I don’t know if my child is that someone, but I don’t want to take the risk of finding that out when it is too late.
I just want to say: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! for this post. You really helped me draft a clear and concise letter, I had no idea where to start and was in full on panic mode. (We did get the exemption too, small private school in NYS)
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much for this blog. It has been super helpful!
WOOT!!!!! HAHAH That right there, That’s worth ALL my efforts! That’s what I am talking about!!!!
Hi, I’m in full panic mode as well and didn’t know where to start till I came upon this post. So thankful for it. I was wondering if I could possibly see an example of your letter if possible. Thank you
Here is a sample letter. Please modify it for your own experience. Never say your Religion by name.
To whom it may concern.
I object to vaccination in any form on the grounds that it is against my Strongly Held Religious Belief to Freely Worship my God and Him alone.
On October 6, 2017 The Attorney General released a Memorandum for all Executive Departments and Agencies regarding Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty. In this memorandum Jeff Sessions first point is, that the freedom of religion is a fundamental right of paramount importance, expressly protected by federal law. The free exercise of religion is not a mere policy preference to be traded against other policy preferences. It is a fundamental right.
The Attorney General continues to say that The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) prohibits the federal government from substantially burdening any aspect of religious observance or practice unless imposition of that burden on a particular religious adherent satisfies strict scrutiny. Furthermore, a government action substantially burdens an exercise of religion under RFRA if it bans an aspect of an adherent’s religious observance or practice, compels and act inconsistent with that observance or practice, or substantially pressures the adherent to modify such observance or practice.
Because the government can not second-guess the reasonableness of a religious belief or the adherent’s assessment of the religious connection between the government mandate and the underlying religious belief, the substantial burden test focuses on the extent of governmental compulsion involved. In general, a government action that bands an aspect of an adherent’s religious observance or practice compels an act inconsistent with that observance or practice, or substantial pressures the adherent to modify such observance or practice, will qualify as a substantial burden on the exercise of religion.
It is my belief that my it is my right to worship my God because he Loves me. My worship comes out of that love. I believe that my God is a jealous God and that I am to have no other God’s before Him as HE is The One True God, Creator, Ruler and Sustainer of all life. It is because of this Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief that Immunization thought the act of Vaccination is against my Belief as I believe it to be a form of religious worship.
I will now prove that my Religious Belief to be free to worship my God and Him alone will pass the burden of proof test so you will have no doubt to second-guess the reasonableness of my religious belief and grant me my request.
It is generally understood that if I receive a Vaccination it will bring Immunity against disease – preventing death.
So we must first ask these questions.
1) What is Immunity?
2) What does Immunity provide?
3) Is Immunization through the Act of Vaccination of Supreme Importance?
4) Do I Trust the Vaccination to bring Immunity
5) Do I Believe the Vaccination will do no Spiritual Harm?
6) Do I have Faith in the Vaccination
7) What is a Religion?
8) Is Immunity 100%
9) The Doctrine of Justification
10) What is a False Religion?
11) What is Prostelytization?
12) What is the Doctrine of Salvation?
It is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that helps establish Laws regarding Immunizations through Vaccinations. It would be said they are the establishment of paramount importance in this matter. So much so, their recommendations are mandated by all government departments, federal and state.
The CDC.gov says that they Protect Lives/Save People 24/7. The CDC has trade marked this statement. What does the CDC protect and save us against?
Death and Disease is the only answer. The CDC claims to offer 24 hours a day/7 days a week, or 100% Immunity only to those who are Vaccinated. “CDC is the nation’s health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect America” is a direct quote from http://www.CDC.gov
Immunity – is understood to provide protection. A Vaccine Immunity is understood to provide protection against death from disease.
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When I was (Insert your story here where someone told you that without Immunization you would die or get a disease.)
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They told me only way for me to be saved from death, was to be Vaccinated! BUT I already HAVE a Savior that has the Power that Saves me From DEATH and Disease!
The act of Vaccination to achieve Immunity is of such importance that laws are written and I am forced to get a exemption. It can be said, and you may agree with the statement that, “Immunizations are of Supreme Importance”. A religion is Defined as, a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
Therefore, a Religion of Immunity has been established by this FACT, and the government backed web site, CDC.gov, as made it a top priority, its highest pursuit to Immunize EVERYONE as it believes this is of Supreme Importance. Just ask your Doctor how important it is to be Immunized! Or turn on the TV and see the commercials. One commercial shows Grandpa as a WOLF ready to devour his grandchildren because he has not been Vaccinated, then after getting the Immunization, grandpa turns back to his normal, human, loving self. My child was shaken at this commercial and feared I was a big bad wolf going to destroy everyone because of our religious belief! The CDC invaded my living room trying to indoctrinate my children against me, IN MY OWN HOUSE!
Trust is defined as a firm belief in the reliability, ability, or strength of someone or something. The CDC is so firm in its ability to provide 100% Immunity that is says they Protect Lives/Save People 24/7. That is a claim that ONLY a GOD can MAKE!
The CDC would have you believe that My God is Irrelevant and can not do anything. They would say my religion is worthless and the God I worship has no power against death and disease. They would have you believe that if you even believed in my God that He saves no one and lets people get sick. They diminish my religion and call me a religious nut as what I believe is nothing more than old fables to an out of touch god that knows nothing of the NEW Science.
Not only this, we are told to believe – to have a firm conviction as to the goodness, efficacy, ability of the Act of Vaccinating to Provide us with instant Immunity. We are to put our Faith – complete trust and confidence – in this Immunity to save us from death and disease. We should worship this Immunity.
That brings us to the fact that Vaccines are not 100%.
SAY WHAT?
THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION
As an example of this;
It is said that the Flu Shot “MAY” only be 25% effective in granting 100% Immunity! They tell us that the pathogen mutated and the Vaccine is useless but “Some protection is better then none.” Or that you need 3 doses of the MMR Vaccine given at 3 Different times to get “Full Immunity” proving that Immunization is False. They say better some Immunity than none at all.
It is because of these reasons that I strongly Believe that the Government has established the FALSE Religion of Immunity.
But wait it is not enough for them to make wild claims that they can grant Immunity from death and disease. Now they have to Proselytize everyone into worshiping this false god of Immunity! This False god has now established the doctrine of Collective Salvation! They call this Hear Immunity.
THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION
When enough of the population is vaccinated, the disease can no longer spread, protecting those at greatest risk.
This is what is against my strongly held personal religious belief. I will not offer myself on the alter of vaccination to the false god of immunity for your collective salvation.
Forcing me to engage in what I believe to be a religious act to a false god to grant me immunity from death so I do not become Satan Incarnate and bring death and destruction to those WHO HAVE BEEN Vaccinated already is beyond my comprehension. How can someone, like myself remove the Immunity from someone who has already been Vaccinated, unless the people getting the Vaccine are NOT immune in the first place. Thus proving the CDC can not save anyone or protect them from anything 24/7.
Justice Robert H Jackson said in regards to the Compelling Interest Doctrine, Employment Division VS Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990) that, “As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause.”
The religious practice that is being targeted is worship.
Having proved beyond a reasonable doubt that my being forced to engage in worship to a false god is against my religion. I believe that engaging in the Religious Act of Immunization to the false god is a sin.
In Conclusion, Thomas Cramner (1556) once said, “”Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions puts it this way.
On Friday October 6th, he said,
“Our freedom as citizens has always been inextricably linked with our religious freedom as a people. It has protected both the freedom to worship and the freedom not to believe. Every American has a right to believe, worship, and exercise their faith. The protections for this right, enshrined in our Constitution and laws, serve to declare and protect this important part of our heritage.”
References
James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (June 20,1785), in 5 THE FOUNDERS CONSITIUTION 82 (Philip B Kurland *& Ralph Lerner eds., 1987)
1st Amendment
Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
Office of the Attorney General October 6,2017 Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
Guidance for implementing religious liberty principles
Agencies Engaged in Rulemaking
Can thank you enough for providing this knowledge for us. Thank you!
Please help me friend! I am at a small private school in nys and they gave me an unrealistic deadline to come up with a detailed letter. Would you send me your example? It is the difference of my already immunocompromised child having to do this or not Please help! My email is [email protected]
would you be willing to share your letter with me? I’m also in NY
my email is [email protected] thank you so much!
I want to put these vaccine makers/politicians in their place! This is a huge beast I have been battling on my own…and quite pathetically at that…for nine years now! I’ve been detoxing my kids in the process following vaccines. How do we all unite and make this stop? I’ve made phone calls to shame Merck for their evils, fought pediatricians until I was blue in the face. After a few years arguing I was sent away from my children’s clinic. I fought a school nurse, and others as I battled to vaccinate my way. What a fricken nightmare!!!! How do we unite to eliminate the madness once and for all? This should be a parents choice and not a threat. That or they need to make vaccines safe if that is possible.
I totally agree. I want to make changes within the system but I just don’t even know where to start
Ann,
We are not here to “battle to vaccinate” my/our way. We are fighting to make others aware they they can not be dictated to on HOW or WHAT we worship.
You detox your kids “after vaccination” and we don’t Immunize which sounds like you have a MORAL objection not a RELIGIOUS one. (I know, you can’t divide the two but the government seems to think you can. ) The government thinks you can go against your conscience and not sin against your god. Just don’t tell that to St Thomas Aquinas. He said once, “Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.”
So we say, we are free to choose whom to worship. We worship the One True God that grants 100% Immunity to those who love Him. The false god of Immunity offers Immunity only to those he chooses and only if everyone is brought to worship it.
99% of us here are against all forms of “immunity” by human hands. The immunity against death we get is from worshiping our God.
There is no need to change the system Sonia, what we need to do is change the way people look at the system.
The system is already for us. We have the law on our side but people need to be educated to what the “law” says about our inalienable rights afforded to us by The Creator.
A movement is about to be birthed because some lawmakers are trying to do undo 241 YEARS of law so that we are forced to abandon our worship to our God.
The issue is Worship and being free to worship the God that grants immunity.
Yashi,
Your vast knowledge on this subject have helped me gain the confidence and set up my appeal process. Currently got denied our vaccine exemption based on our religious beliefs. I have to met up with someone to appeal. I really would appreciate your feedback. Please guide me through this. I am ni NYC. Thanks a million!
[email protected]
I have set up this email to try and help people.
The number of people seeking help is growing each day. It is my prayer that the people who get an exemption will not be quite and help others in their quests.
I’ll try where I can.
Hi I am currently 19 weeks pregnant and work in a hospital in the state of washington. It is mandatory for us to take the flu shot, however i do not wish to take it as i am pregnant. what laws or biblical verses can i use to argument for my exemption?
This post should help: https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
Nataliya, I am in the exact same situation, but in Colorado. I am wondering if you have had any luck with a religious exemption at your hospital?
I am planning on sending it today.
Use this letter I wrote and see what response you get! WE need to stand up for our religion. We are free to worship whatever god we choose. this is our right.
I am writing you this letter demanding a religious exemption from immunization as afforded to me by the Law as immunization is against my strongly held religious belief.
The issue at hand is the religious act of WORSHIP. Its Singular.
This very letter is proof that this religion, a false religion of Immunity exists. For if it did not exist then why am I now forced to choose between my religion that offers 100% immunity against death and this other religion that claims to offer some Immunity against Death?
Let me explain.
The Law grants me the freedom to exercise my religion without interference from the government or my employer – these are the “powers that be” – without prejudice or punishment even if you disagree with my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief.
It is my belief that the “powers that be” have not only established but are sponsoring ONE religion OVER another religion. This religion that the “powers that be” have established is not my religion and “the powers that be” are now forcing me to engage in the physical ACT of worship because they believe their god can grant everyone immunity.
My God says that I shall not worship any other god’s before mine as my god is a JEALOUS God. I strongly believe that my God and ONLY my God offers, LIFE and 100% Immunity from death.
Now the “powers that be” say that they have sponsored and established a new religion. This new religion is of supreme importance. The “powers that be” now claim their new religion is the ONLY religion that offers Immunity but ONLY if EVERYONE is proselytized. The “powers that be” are making wild claims that this new god can give everyone immunity from death and even extend the length of their very life and will replace my worship for theirs.
The CDC.gov, a “powers that be” web site, says that this new god will 24/7 save lives/protect people.
The “powers that be” have/are told/telling us to trust this new god as he and he alone has the power to save everyone. The “powers that be” has/have told/telling us to believe in their studies that the immunity their religion offers is safe and does no harm. The “powers that be” has/is told/telling us to blindly put our Faith in their religion to expect Immunity from death and disease, 24/7 Saving/Lives Protecting People is there Motto. (it is trade marked)
What does the CDC.gov actually mean that it can 24/7 save lives/protect people if not from death and disease. The “powers that be” have even gone so far as to write a Book of Laws, codes, rules and regulation regarding how to worship this new god that grants immunity to its faithful believers. Now their god has spoken that as long as everyone partakes in the sacred act of vaccination, at his alter of worship to him, that he will grant immunity for everyone against death and disease. If everyone does not worship him, NO ONE will be Immune! This god is striking fear in the harts of its followers!
The “powers that be” have even Licensed their own priests. These priests are the only people that can administer the sacred act of vaccination. The Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacists are the only people that can administer this Religious Rite as they are the only ones that are Licensed to do so, by the Government – granted by the “powers that be”.
There are even Holy Days set aside, as markers for your life within their religion. The schedule at which EVERYONE MUST partake in their sacred worship to their god has been established by “the powers that be” so we may be granted Immunity. To deviate from this would mean Death to all. This schedule I am referring to of course is the “vaccine schedule” that is produced by the servants of this god and enforced by the laws the government – one of the “Powers that be” has established and enforces.
I am forced now to defend my religion because of these laws, codes, rules and regulation.
In New York State 2 of those laws are Statutory Law 2164 and Volume A-1A (known as Title 10 CCR)
So, now the government is saying, I must choose one of these religions over the other…
What will I choose?
The False Religion of Immunity
The One True God that grants 100% immunity
But wait, I HAVE NO CHOICE! The “POWERS THAT BE’ are now saying there is no choice. I must be proselytized! The fate of the WORLD depends on MY REFORMED!
The “powers that be” are saying ymy religion is useless and my faith is worthless and THEIR religion is best and I am stupid and risking other peoples lives by following my own RELIGION. “The powers that be” say have Science to prove we are religious radicals. “The powers that be” say they have done their own studies and released its OWN facts that their god does provide protection to everyone, as long as everyone bows down and worships their god on the alter of vaccination to gain their immunity from death. WE MUST BE ASSIMILATED. WE MUST BE ABSORBED. WE MUST BE SILENCED!
In a twist of fate, in the very next breath the “powers that be” say, well not every vaccine brings 100% immunity.
What?
This is their doctrine of Justification.
The “powers that be” attempts to justify themselves by saying nothing is 100%. Being Vaccinated for Immunity “wears off over time” or you need 3 or 4 doses for Immunity, or unvaxinated people can remove your immunity! What? How can someone who is immune have their immunity taken away? Does that statement alone prove that their immunity is false? I believe this statement alone proves the fact that their god never gave them immunity in the first place! They are bowing down to worship a false god!
I know other wise. I am sanctified by my God, I am Saved by my God and I am Immune to death by my God. My Immunity is ONCE FOR ALL! The Power of death has no Power over me! No one can take away my Immunity!
Thus by the “powers that be’s” own words they have proven that the immunity that their god offers is FALSE.
The “powers that be” are now writing laws that grant no one a religious objection against Immunization. Brown in California signed bill 277 saying everyone, over 30 million people, must be proselytized! (Herd immunity known in my religion as Collective Salvation. – NO one is saved unless everyone is saved. In the case of the false god, no one is Immune unless everyone is immune”
Their are laws that protect the act of worship and the choice of whom I worship and how I worship and where I can worship the god of my choosing. There are laws that say that no one can be prejudiced against me because of my strongly held personal religious beliefs no matter what “the powers that be” think is a COMPELLING INTEREST to them!
The laws that protects me in a public place is the Civil Rights act of 1964 Title VII section 201,202 and 203.
The law that protects me in a work environment is Employment Division Vrs MR Smith of 1990.
I will not offer myself or a family member on the alter of Vaccination to the False go of Immunity for your Collective Salvation.
It is for these reasons I strongly believe that Immunization is against my Personal Religious BELIEF. I will not be forced to worship any other god than the one I CHOOSE!
Thank you for Granting me a Religious Exemption FROM Immunization.
Sincerely yours….
Radical Religious Nut Job.
Yashi
omg this is a great letter.. can i use this for a religious exemption for my daughter’s schoo in NYC? I’m having such hard time putting something together 🙁 and they are harrassing me saying I have until the 23rd or she will be kicked out of school!
Yes USE anything you find that Yashi has written. Megan should get credit if you quote someone. This is her blog and she lets me post here.
Woot, as of Today, we no longer have to prove our religious convictions! Trump just signed a presidential executive order promoting free speach and religious liberty!
Section 1. Policy. It shall be the policy of the executive branch to vigorously enforce Federal law’s robust protections for religious freedom. The Founders envisioned a Nation in which religious voices and views were integral to a vibrant public square, and in which religious people and institutions were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by the Federal Government. For that reason, the United States Constitution enshrines and protects the fundamental right to religious liberty as Americans’ first freedom. Federal law protects the freedom of Americans and their organizations to exercise religion and participate fully in civic life without undue interference by the Federal Government. The executive branch will honor and enforce those protections.
Except in the narrowest of circumstances no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions just said!
After Trump signing today, what does that mean for Calidornia which has mandatory vaccinations for school? Surely you would still have to write a letter stating your right to a religious exemption? And after today, I guess no state will be able to stop any religious exemption. Right? I am trying to understand the full implication of today’s signing. Unfortuanately Americans don’t seem to honor the constitution especially with free speech and not allowing speakers to speak at universities without being harassed. So, I don’t really think anything will change. Sigh……
This means, they are in trouble for Violating peoples First Amendment and 14 Amendment rights! It will be challenged in court. Civil rights act of 1964 Title VII 201,202,203 says you shall be free from religious discrimination in a PUBLIC PLACE.
In 1785 James Madison wrote this, Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, “that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.” [Virginia Declaration of Rights, art. 16] The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, who enters into any subordinate Association, must always do it with a reservation of his duty to the General Authority; much more must every man who becomes a member of any particular Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no mans right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance. True it is, that no other rule exists, by which any question which may divide a Society, can be ultimately determined, but the will of the majority; but it is also true that the majority may trespass on the rights of the minority.
Ok so California has implemented a new law that states that ALL Children must be Vaccinated and it does not include a Religious Exemption.
That is in fact true. However http://www.oclaw.org/research/code/ca/HSC/120365./content.html
This is the Statutory Law in California.
What I would fight if your in California is this part, “However, whenever there is good cause to believe that the person has been exposed to one of the communicable diseases listed in subdivision (a) of Section 120325, that person may be temporarily excluded from the school or institution until the local health officer is satisfied that the person is no longer at risk of developing the disease. ”
Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII still applies no matter what law’s the state of California decides to write. They can not punish a student by removing them from school because they feel justified that a “good cause” protects the Immunized and is therefore inherently prejudiced against the students RELIGION!
It’s laughable.
yashi is it illegal not to vaccinate they r scaring me about my near four year old ?
Yes, In California Gov Brown signed Bill 277 into law MANDATORY Immunizations without a NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE.
No Religious Exemptions are aloud. That is being challenged in the courts right now.
If your in California I would send my child to school the very first day and give the principal a letter saying you will not Immunize because of your Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief (BELIEF IS SINGULAR AND DO NOT SAY YOUR RELIGION…EVER)
That SINGLE Religious belief is an ACT of WORSHIP. You will not worship a False god of Immunity. Immunity is only granted through WORSHIP to your God and HE alone is the Giver and Sustainer of LIFE.
Just put that in the letter. Let them try and fight it. If they ask for your religion then in the next letter, tell them NO and because they violated your CIVIL RIGHTS by asking for your religion (Quote the law 1964 title VII section 201,202) that you are now DEMANDING the exemption/waver for breaking part 203 of that LAW and you will sick Attorney General of the USA, Jeff Sessions on them!!
I would suspect you get a WAVER instead of an EXEMPTION as a waver lets them save face.
I have taken 2 days to complete my thoughts on this. There have been people asking me for help and I want to help everyone in all states and have attempted to compile information that is relevant to 3 basic Principals,
The Doctrine of Compelling Interest
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII 201,202,203
The 1st Amendment
I believe that no matter what state you live in, even in California where they no longer believe in any religion but their own, that using this format you can achieve a religious exemption no matter what the religion is, or if you even have a religion by claiming that the Government has Established a Religion and you are to be free “From” religion.
If we can start a movement at the grass roots, this might be the way to squash this once, for all.
I do believe that we are doing this all wrong.
Let me explain. Everyone says that Religion should not be forced on them. Like say Christianity says that Marriage is between God and One man and One woman.
So what does that look like when compared with the Compelling Interest Doctrine
Justice Robert H Jackson said in his Compelling Interest Doctrine Employment Division VS Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990) that, “As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause.” of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the USA.
So if a Clerk at a Government office is asked to produce a Marriage License for a homosexual couple, does she need to if she feels that it is against her religion or does the “Common Good” our weigh her Religious Liberty?
I don’t know…
So what about Immunization?
What if I could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Immunization is infact, a religion?
I can and I will now explain that the government has established the False Religion of Immunization and is Prosthelytizing everyone into its religion.
Would you not agree to these statements?
The government believes that Immunization is of the utmost importance.
The government believes that Immunity can be achieved when a certain percentage of the population is vaccinate.
The government trusts that Immunizations will save us from death and disease.
The Government has Faith in the Vaccines that they are safe and effective for Immunity against disease.
IF you agree with these statements, then you have just confirmed that the Government has established a religion.
What’s more, the government believes that;
if Myself or MY Child is NOT Vaccinated then my child/I will/can infect a vaccinated/undervaccinated/not vaccinated person and remove their Immunity they received from Vaccines (if they received any) and bring Death and Disease to all. (this is the the Compelling Interest Doctrine -Everyone Must be Immunized for Anyone to be Immune)
The CDC.gov website says it best. Their motto is even copy written.
CDC 24/7: Saving Lives, Protecting People. My question is, saving people from what? The only answer is Death and Disease. The CDC is saying that they and they alone have the ability to save life 24/7. This is something that I believe only a god has the power to do.
First we need a few definitions as to what a religion is….
The Definition of a Religion is: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
My Nurse, my Doctors the and even the government believe that Immunizing my child is of supreme importance going even so far as to spend public tax dollars on TV ads and to write religious Codes (LAWS) to force me to Immunize against my Personal Religious Beliefs.
The Doctrine of Faith: is defined as complete trust or confidence in someone or something. The Government has Complete Faith in Immunization that it will bring about Immunity once my child receives the Religious ACT of Vaccination.
But this is not enough for the government to establish a religion that is contrary to my strongly held personal religious beliefs! Now the government is threatening me by demanding that EVERYONE must follow their Religious CODE and be Immunized for the purpose of interfering with my Civil Rights in order to bring me into their religion.
The DOCTRINE OF PROSELYTIZATION is defined as: to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause- and that cause is to convert me to the False Religion of Immunization by using a Religious CODE.
The government defines this as Heard Immunity.
Heard Immunity is defined as https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/what-is-herd-immunity/ (PRINT THIS OUT)
What is herd immunity? – VaccinesToday
http://www.vaccinestoday.eu
Herd immunity is a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for …
‘Herd immunity is a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity.’
In Conclusion: I BELIEVE that the government has established a religion of Immunity and as such this is contrary to my strongly held personal beliefs. The First Amendment says that the government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Now for the kicker…
The Government is attempting to abridge my Legal Right to freely exercise my Religion as I see fit and to threaten to proselytize me into bowing down and worshiping a False god so that I do not become Satan Incarnate and bring Death and Disease to those who are Immunized. THIS IS CONTRARY to my Strongly Held Personal Religious Beliefs.
Now put this against the COMPELLING INTEREST DOCTRINE!
..”…for anyone to even attempt to establish what my religion is, or deny my religion even exists, as it relates to your request to comply with STATE LAWS for the sole purpose to deprive me the right to a religious exemption as afforded to me by the CiIvil Rights ACT and thereby establishing my Religion for the sole purpose as to be prejudiced against me, is against Spirit of the Civil Rights act of 1964 Title VII section 201,202 and 203 and a violation of my rights to freely exercise my Religion. Furthermore, it is also against the compelling Interest Doctrine as defined by Supreme Court Justice Robert H Jackson (494 U.S. 872 (1990)) by targeting ONLY the particular religious practice of Immunization
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SAYS THAT MY RELIGION EXISTS!!! YOU CAN NOT ABOLISH MY/ALL RELIGIONS TO ESTABLISH A STATE RUN RELIGION THAT FORCES ME TO EXCEPT PUNISHMENT FROM MY GOD FOR THE ONE THAT IS STATE SPONSORED because it is “convenient for you?
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.” – Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274 The Original Notwithstanding clause!!!
The state of California attempts to blot out every single religion but its own with one swipe of the pen.
I will not offer my myself/son/daughter on the alter of Vaccination to the false god of Immunity for your Collective Salvation!
Now, We HAVE the laws already, including mentioned above, Civil Rights act 1964 VII section 201 202 and 203. 201 that say NO discrimination against religion will happen in a PUBLIC PLACE – like a SCHOOL. By removing ALL RELIGIOUS Objections and ESTABLISHING their OWN False religion to the false god of IMMUNITY who the government Believes, has Faith and Trust in that their false god of Immunity has the POWER to save my life from DEATH AND DISEASE is thus PREJUDICED AGAINST ME. I say NO. ONLY MY GOD, the ONE TRUE GOD has the to POWER to SAVE!!!
This is the Governments lame attempts to deprive me of my Religious Freedom as afforded to me in the 1st amendment to Establish No Religions exist except their own. NOW I HAVE A STRONGLY HELD PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEF THAT IMMUNIZING IS AGAINST WHAT I BELIEVE.
The Government has NO rights to say for the common good that my religion is worthless and in the same breath proclaim by decree that theirs is the one true religion and NOW I need to BOW my knees to this false god so they can force me to engage in the religious act of Vaccination to their FALSE god of IMMUNITY or risk the full Weight of their WRATH and therefore to be subject to my GOD’s HELL AND DAMNATION by worshiping a False god?
To put it a different way…
The civil rights act says that you can not choose one religion over another so the government will choose to ignore all religion as if they don’t exist and then establish theirs as the ONE and ONLY religion? I THINK NOT
I will break the BONDS of Religious oppression and will not offer my body on the alter of vaccination to this false god of Immunity for their collective salvation. I WILL TESTIFY ONLY MY ONE TRUE GOD has the power to Save Lives/Protect People 24/7. He is THE ALMIGHTY, the GREAT EL ELYON the EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE, THE CREATOR THE SUSTAINER, OMNIPOTENT, OMNIPRESENT GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD!!!
What I have just done is expose the FACT that the Government has ESTABLISHED the Religion of Immunity as we all need fall down and Worship at the feet of this false god. It does not matter if you have a religion or not. The Government CAN NOT force a religion on us even if they think it is for….The Common….Good.
The FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE DEMANDS that I/we will be FREE (as the liberals say) FROM RELIGION.
Take that to the supreme court.
Hope this helps form some ideas.
You are amazing.
The question of “Compelling Interest” vs Religious Liberty and the case law that seems to limit religious conscience was addressed by Congress when it passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
I wrote about that law in an essay about the Ministry and Healing that I wrote a bit over a decade ago. http://home.earthlink.net/~lifespirit23/minlaw.htm
In that essay I provided this information which may be useful for this discussion:
The Congress of the United States adopted the RFRA, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-141). In this enactment Congress determined that “governments should not substantially burden religious exercise without compelling justification…” and that “laws ‘neutral’ toward religion may burden religious exercise…” Therefore Congress determined to protect the free exercise of religion as follows:
“Sect. 3. Free Exercise of Religion Protected. (a) In General. — Government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, except as provided in subsection (b). (b) Exception. — Government may substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that application of the burden to the person — (1) is in the furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest. (c) Judicial Relief. — A person whose religious exercise has been burdened in violation of this section may assert that violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government…”
This enactment is a departure from the tradition of non-involvement in religious matters and recognizes that religion should be protected, in this era of Big Government, from even “neutral” laws which burden religious exercise. Congress has thereby issued a significant statement of Public Policy and has put the Courts at the disposal of those who suffer burdens upon the free exercise of religion at the hands of government. This Act will have a major impact, further securing religious liberty, over the coming decades. In the earliest legal tests of the Act animal sacrifice was permitted under certain circumstances. This Law is being challenged in the Courts and may not survive; however, it does show that Congress is aware of the issue and is seeking to protect Religious Freedom. [This Statute has been held “unconstitutional” by the US Supreme Court, as applied to States and localities, as a violation of the “separation of powers” by Congress — which implies that the Courts will determine the limits of religious rights protection and will apply standard civil rights analysis, permitting interference where a “significant” government “interest” is involved.]
May 28, 2002, the 9th Circuit Appeals Court discussed the current state of the law, while discussing the RFRA, “If the law does create a substantial burden, we may still uphold it if it serves a compelling government interest in the least restrictive manner possible. 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1(b). *** A statute burdens the free exercise of religion if it “put[s] substantial pressure on an adherent to modify his behavior and to violate his beliefs,” Thomas v. Review Bd. of Ind. Employment Sec. Div., 450 U.S. 707, 718 (1981), including when, if enforced, it “results in the choice to the individual of either abandoning his religious principle or facing criminal prosecution.” Braunfeld v. Brown, 366 U.S. 599, 605 (1961). A substantial burden must be more than an “inconvenience.” Worldwide Church, 227 F.3d at 1121.” Guam v Guerrero, Docket No. 00-71247 at 7712-13.
On June 27, 2004, the Utah Supreme Court determined, in the case of Utah v Mooney, that non-American Indian members of the Native American Church can use peyote in religious ceremonies. In 2000 officers confiscated about 12,000 peyote buttons from the six-acre complex that serves as home to the Oklevueha Earthwalks Native American Church. The Mooneys’ church is affiliated with the Native American Church, though they are not members of a federally recognized tribe. The State argued there is no exception in state law for the use of peyote by Indians and said that even if the court ruled there was such an exception, it could not be extended to cover non-Indians. The high court ruled that state law incorporates the federal regulation but does not specify a restriction on peyote use only by members of federally recognized tribes. Use of the hallucinogenic drug is limited to bona fide religious ceremonies as part of the Native American Church, Justice Jill Parrish wrote. The court also said that permitting the exemption for some church members and not others would violate the equal-protection clause in the United States Constitution. http://www.utcourts.gov/opinions/supopin/mooney062204.htm.
The Supreme Court, in 2006, under the leadership of its then new Chief Justice Roberts, reaffirmed the efficacy of the statute, stating, the “Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 107 Stat. 1488, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000bb et seq., … adopts a statutory rule …. Under RFRA, the Federal Government may not, as a statutory matter, substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion, “even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.” §2000bb–1(a). The only exception recognized by the statute requires the Government to satisfy the compelling interest test—to “demonstrat[e] that application of the burden to the per-son—(1) is in furtherance of a compelling government interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.” §2000bb–1(b). A person whose religious practices are burdened in violation of RFRA “may assert that violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief.” §2000bb–1(c).” Gonzales v O Centro, No. 04–1084. Argued November 1, 2005—Decided February 21, 2006.
The most important recent Supreme Court development in the area of First Amendment Freedom is the well-known Boy Scout case – (Boy Scouts v Dale, No. 99-699, Decided June 28, 2000). The Court reiterated that Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association together give rise to what the Court calls “Expressive Association” which is the expression of the association’s beliefs through its internal decisions and activities. These are protected by Constitutional Right, “While the law may promote all sorts of conduct in place of harmful behavior, it may not interfere with speech for no better reason than promoting an approved message or discouraging a disfavored one, however enlightened either purpose may seem… The record reveals… the Boy Scouts is a private association…”
WHAT’S YOUR POINT? DO YOU HAVE A RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION? I DO!!! I’ll post mine if you post yours!
Do you want us to read it?? How does it help these people get an exemption? Would the School Board want to shell out the MONEY to fight this in Court – and loose?
My point is that the Gov can not target a specific religious act.
Because I have established the false religion of Immunity and PROVEN beyond a reasonable doubt that worshiping a FALSE god of Immunity is AGAINST my religion and I need to be prostalitized (spelling is bad) into the State Sponsored, Government ESTABLISHED RELIGION, that therefore, this violates my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief!
They are Targeting ONLY the religious act of Vaccination to the False god of immunity.
It’s Illegal. Period.
The only “claim” the government has is “public good”. But since they can not produce evidence (independent studies) that UnVaccinated Children Kill and Sicken Vaccinated Children (cause this would prove that Vaccinated children DO NOT HAVE IMMUNITY – its FALSE IMMUNITY) they would cut off their nose to spite their face.
Thank you for confirming that I am correct. I have NO legal background at all. I am not a lawyer and have no legal experience.
BUT WHAT I DO HAVE IS MY RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION FROM Immunization for my SON in NEW YORK STATE.
IT is from my school board and says, “your request has been granted”.
NY State is one of the HARDEST states if not THEE hardest state to get one.
I said, “I will not offer (my son) on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for your collective Salvation!
POOF I am a crazed out religious fanatic WITH an Exemption.
Can you help me? I need a religious exemption in NY.
I already have, please read all this thread.
I’m in NYS as well. I’ll be using your letter. Thank you so much!!
Thank you, finally some sensibility!!
Well said.
You have been very helpful. I am a travel nurse in Georgia. The hospital I am
currently on a contract at mandates that everyone employed must be injected with the flu vaccine. I signed the vaccine declination letter. I told them it was against my religious beliefs. I was informed I will have to obtain a letter from my pastor, rabi, priest, etc.. I would have to wear a mask from the time I entered the door until I exited the facility. I am only allowed to take it off to eat and drink. I have spoken with others who do not want to get the vaccine, but feel like the hospital is trying to making working conditions so horrible that they will just give in and take the flu shot. I totally disagree. I have until November 5 to provide them with a letter or my contract will be canceled. I will provide them with one and cancel my contract. I do not want to work for anyone who basically bullies to force them to go against their religious beliefs. I have never experienced this before now. I feel we should stand together and fight for our religious rights. I am on a crusade to do exactly that. I am not for sure where to start. If you have any suggestion I am open to hearing them.
Hi, I am a nurse and I work for a catholic hospital. They are requiring the influenza vaccine. In the past they have not been strict about enforcing exemptions and it was a choice in which if you chose not to get one you had to wear a mask. However this year they are aiming for 100% compliance. They have literally sent out a medical rejection form and a religious rejection form with only three days to turn in. This article was a great piece of advice but here is my problem. On the religious exemption form they have you sign a line stating that if you fail to be vaccinated or granted an exemption you have until said date “to comply or voluntarily resign and/or cease providing services”. If I sign this line before turning in my exemption I obviously agree in which case I am sure they will come up with a reason to not approve. If I don’t sign the line they could say my form was incomplete and they will not consider and make mandatory. The policy states that any form turned in after October 1st will NOT be considered.
Suggestions? Can they in fact force me to resign if they do not approve my exemption? I am feeling very strongly about this and just wondering if you have any pointers for this matter and the way they have worded their “policy” which I am sure went to legal before it came out.
I live in Florida
Hello, I am a follower of Jesus and work for a Catholic Hospital. I am required to get a flu shot or wear a mask which violates my HIPPA rights. I live in the state of VA. Have you heard of any success stories with religious exemption with this scenario. By the way, thank you for this wonderful article filled with the Word of God.
Compelling Interest Doctrine
Employment Division VS Smith
494 U.S. 872 (1990)
Justice Robert H Jackson
“As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause”
That is your Law. Don’t confuse them with talk of God or right and wrong as you see it. Simply right them a letter that its against your Strongly Held Personal Religious Beliefs to be immunized.
Because your employer is only targeting your Religious Belief (single Belief) of NOT being immunized, your employer is VIOLATING your 1st amendment rights to freely express your religion.
Thank you Yashi. If granted a religious exemption, do they then have the right to force me to wear a mask?
What your asking is, would there be a punishment for exercising your religious rights?
That law is Civil Rights Act of 1964 Tilte VII section 203.
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html That is the FULL LAW
Section 203 c) states (and I quote) (c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202.
Do you see wearing a MASK as a form of Punishment? Is everyone wearing a mask or just those that have an exemption as a way to SHAME them?
By your Employer simply THINKING about punishing you is a Violation of your rights if you feel it’s punishment.
Thank you. It was stated to all employees either decline the shot or wear a mask. When I printed out the religious exemption form, at the bottom it said I still had to wear a mask if granted. To me, it would be a punishment and that my religious rights are equivalent to just declining the shot. I believe then I can quote this 203c to my employer
Then you are considering it a Punishment for demanding your employer respect your strongly held personal religious belief.
You have the form to boot and that alone is illegal. Your employer can not force you to wear a mask as much as it can force you to be Immunized based on their perception of the Compelling Interest Doctrine. That could go all the way to the Supreme Court and your employer would have to pay all the legal fees AND yours once you won.
I would write a letter without feeling in it and quote the letter with the must wear mask and how you believe it to be a violation of your Civil Rights.
Do not attack anyone just point out that your not going to wear a mask because of…1964 Title VII section 201,202, 202, 203 and then throw 204 in there for them to know where your going with this.
I would leave it like that. If you get another letter threatening your job then I would go a step further and invoke Section 204 (c)(a) that says you have just given your employer 30 days to comply or you will press legal action against them.
Odds are, they don’t know what the law says and they certainly do not want to set precedence in the matter.
I can foresee that your employer will let this go to their legal department for debate. Since the law is firm it would then be a board decision if they wanted to press the matter.
My guess is that the legal department is hoping that people simply comply with the request to wear a mask as the employee is just grateful to have the choice of Immunization or Mask.
However, you now know the law and are requesting a NOTHWITHSTANDING on the MASK. U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission 1964 Title VII Civil Rights Act Section 201,202,203,204
What about in the case for a university hospital without a religious affiliation that is requiring its employees to get a flu vaccine or have a medical or religious exemption as a condition of employment? When you wrote ” Simply right them a letter that its against your Strongly Held Personal Religious Beliefs to be immunized ” above – is that all I need to write on the form from the university hospital instead of laying out specific verses from the Bible as this original blog post suggests? I need to turn in my form in a few days and I need to get it right so I am not forced to go against what I believe.
Please read my posts here.
Have I once quoted Chapter and Verse? no. Why becauee your makimg it a moral debate not a religious one. If you can find a quote by a religious scollar, i can find and quote a different religious scollar countering your arguement. This is not a Moral or Ethical Issue people.
This is a right to CHOOSE WHAT RELIGION you are FREE to follow.
I will say, My God demands that I worship Him and Him alone.
No one can argue against this. This is my Right, to be FREE FROM RELIGION. I do not need someone else telling me WHAT god To worship!
If I feel someone is trying to convert me to a new faith, a religion, I have the right to shut the door on them. If a Morman or Christian or Jew or Hindu or Muslim knocks on my door and tells me to WORSHIP someone elses god or I will die, THIS THIS I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH!
The Government has just knocked on my door! They are telling me that their god of IMMUNITY will save my life and I will DIE WITHOUT bowing down and worshiping this god by rolling up my sleve in a sacred act of Worship to this false god.
THIS MY BELOVED IS AGAINST MY RELIGION.
It is the WILL OF GOD THAT I WILL DIE. Everyone, listen. EVERYONE DIES. How then can they say their god can 24/7 Save Lives/Protect People….from DEATH! UNLESS THEY ARE A GOD!
That is the arguement. Has the government ESTABLISHED a Religion to the FALSE GOD OF IMMUNITY and has now BROKEN DOWN MY DOOR TO MY HOUSE AND DEMANDED I BE PROSTALTIZED!
I will not offer myself on the alter of vaccination to the false god of immunization for their collective salvation! PERIOD.
Thanks, Yashi! So I submitted the exemption and stated that “It is against my strongly held religious beliefs to be immunized”. The private university health system has come back and stated that my exemption application does not have enough information to evaluate my request. It asks “Please provide a brief description of your objection, based on your religious beliefs, to receiving an influenza vaccine. A broad statement that is is against your strongly held religious beliefs is not sufficient”. I have not yet responded. I am not sure if I should push back or what. You are saying not to quote scripture, etc. What more can I tell them?
Mom2Tow
Nice letter!
NOW Please be VERY KIND to them. Your not “fighting them” your fighting Powers….Do not use a bible verse and do not say your religion. You will Testify but not in that way.
I love your letter.
They are trying to get you to establish your “religion” to use it against you. This is how they twist your rights and use your own words against you.
You are now going not to testify, but to Justify your Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief. (belief is singular for a reason…the compelling interest doctrine is the reason its a singular belief). They used the word “Broader” or Beliefs. So be sincere – means do it over and over and over again – in your NEXT letter.
THIS letter can be worded like this… (dont copy this word for word but you get the idea.)
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
I however, will not be brief as my religious objection in this matter is not broad and not narrow but Singular. I am now forced not only to prove but to convince you of what is legally mine.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
The Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty memorandum issued by The Attorney General Jeff Sessions section states, AND I QUOTE:
2. The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one’s religious beliefs.
The Free Exercise Clause protects not just the right to believe or the right to worship; it protects the right to perform or abstain from certain physical acts in accordance with one’s belief. Federal statutes, including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”), support that protection, broadly defining the exercise of religion to encompass all aspects of observance and practice whether or not central to, or required by, a particular religious faith.
No one with a strongly held personal Religious Belief can be forced into the physical act of Vaccinating as a form of worship to the false god of Immunity.
I will not offer myself as worship on the alter of vaccination to the false god of immunity for your collective salvation.
In the United States of America,
1) I am free to worship the God of my choice. 1st amendment says NO ONE shall prohibit my right to the free exercise of my Religion.
2) My Personal God demands that I only worship Him and Him alone as He, my God is a Jealous God. To bow down and worship a false god IS a sin.
3) The Government has established a religion and have violated the 1st amendment. They “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”, the false religion of Immunity.
4) I Strongly believe that the CDC.gov web site proves point 3 when it claims 24/7 saving lives / protecting people. This proves they are a God because what do they protect from? no seriously ask anyone on the street, what do vaccines protect from? Disease? Death? of course death and disease! I believe this to be FALSE. I Strongly Believe that to claim the power over death and disease is to claim they are gods. Only my God has the POWER over life and Death. My GOD and MY GOD ONLY.
5) Immunizing can KILL. They do not protect 24/7. The Flu Immunization is NOT 100% or 24/7. It does not Protect 24/7 if it is NOT 100% then it is a FALSE Immunity. Either I am Immune or I am NOT. True or False. Does the religious act of being vaccinated grant me 100% Immunity? Does it grant EVERYONE 100% Immunity.
For you who are reading this right now, in your mind you are trying to JUSTIFY this statement saying, “nothing is 100%” or “some immunity is better than none”.
I strongly disagree. My God is 100%. My God offers me 100% Immunity from DEATH if I continue to WORSHIP Him and Him ONLY. This is NOT a Broad Statement as you propose in your letter to me. Forcing me to put my faith, to believe that I might be chosen to receive, to be worthy enough for 100% Immunity from death, by worshiping this false god is NOT a religious act I believe in.
I have faith – strong belief in my God, in my doctrines of a religion, based on my spiritual apprehension rather than the “NEED” of proof. Yet you are forcing me to prove not only MY religion but also that the Government has ESTABLISHED one! You are in need for me to convey my strongly held Personal Religious Belief as Proof to my Spiritual BELIEF because your prejudiced against me. The fact is, I will only Worship MY God AS I SEE FIT no matter what you think or believe I should or should not be doing. I shall be FREE to exercise my religion.
6) The gov justifies itself saying some immunity is better than none proving its false immunity.
7) I need to be prosthelytized into what I strongly believe is false religion. A religion is a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
This is of such supreme importance to you that I am now being forced to prove to you that my strongly held personal religious BELIEF, that I am only to WORSHIP MY God and Him ONLY as HE controls Immunity is of supreme importance TO ME!!! You demand Proof. You demand that my belief is not sufficient for SALVATION!
8) THE government now writes laws or codes, religious laws, to enforce their religion. They call this the Doctrine of Herd Immunity. Unless everyone is Immunized NO ONE is Immune.
This is the VERY reason I am left to JUSTIFY and Establish my SINGLE most Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief. To Freely Worship MY GOD and HIM ONLY. The fact is I believe my God and ONLY my God Controls Immunity.
9) COMPELLING INTEREST DOCTRINE -1990 supreme court ruling, Employment Division VS Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990) states you can not target a specific religious belief! I can not be forced to WORSHIP what I STRONGLY BELIEVE IS A FALSE GOD.
10) now I have Proven that you have established a religion and are forcing me into it by ignoring my request and requesting I justify myself to you in full view of my 1st amendment rights to be free from ANY religion. I will not be Immunized as its against my STRONGLY HELD PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEF! It is against MY RELIGION!
What is more than this, you have established that your religion is more important than mine and have shown yourselves to be prejudiced against me by demanding that I justify my Strongly Held Personal Religious Belief to you!
What gives you that RIGHT! Please provide me with the “Laws” that grant you this Power that I must believe as you do, that I must put my faith and trust and bow down and worship your god, the one you CHOOSE for me!
I will not worship this false god and bow down and offer my body on the alter of Vaccination to this False god Of Immunity for anyone’s Collective Salvation!
In Conclusion, thank you for granting me my request to be free from Immunizations.
Furthermore, I will now evoke all notwithstanding clauses regarding Punishment (Civil Rights act 1964 Title II section 203) or what I perceive to be any punishment as related to this matter. I will not be forced to be subjected to discrimination on the grounds that I am NOT Immunized because you have shown yourselves to be sincere in your prejudice against my strongly held personal religious belief.
Sincerely yours
__________________
DONE, AND you never said or quoted a single verse or names your religion.
Read this people…
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001891/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Love this post, thank you. Just what I need
I just got told by a catholic school that they do not accept religious exemptions (which I sent in for my child). I live in NJ. Anyone go through this?
Write the School Board a letter.
In the letter tell them that you have strongly held personal religious beliefs that are contrary to Immunization. Tell them your experiences like what you have gone through at the wellness visits and refusing to give your child vaccines for years.
Then quote them the Civil Rights act of 1964 Title VII section 201 202 and 203. Tell them if they received any Public funds what-so-ever that they are thus a Public School and you can not be coursed to give up your strongly held personal religious beliefs not to Immunize.
Write the letter like that. Then give it to the board. Let their legal team attempt to decipher it.
In closing tell them that you will not offer your child on the Alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for their Collective Salvation.
Thank them for their time and you look forward to receiving a religious exemption for Immunization.
This goes for anyone anywhere. The Establishments – Catholic or Governmental, can not infringe on your Strongly Held, Personal Religious Beliefs. The only thing these schools understand is Legal mumbo jumbo.
I carry in my wallet this:
Compelling Interest Doctrine
Employment Division VS Smith
494 U.S. 872 (1990)
Justice Robert H Jackson
“As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause”
In the case of Immunization they are targeting a particular religious practice. We believe that Immunization – that targeting Christians to go against their strongly Held Religious Beliefs NOT to Immunize – Adversely Targets us.
Period. And that is against Federal Laws. 1st amendment, Civil Rights acts and other laws.
We have the right to Personal Beliefs. Even if we are Catholic we may not believe 100% of everything. Martin Luther nailed 99 reasons the Catholics were WRONG, but he was CATHOLIC. You can be Catholic and still agree to disagree about many of the tenants of Catholicism.
So saying the school is Catholic and must adhere to the tenants won’t hold up against your Sincerely Held Personal Religious Beliefs in a COURT of LAW in the USA.
You don’t care what they say, you want what’s yours under FEDERAL Law.
Here is an example. Eventually someone who has purchased weed “legally” in Colorado will kill someone in a car. The family of the slain person will SUE THE STATE OF COLORADO for allowing the sale of an ILLEGAL and Banned product resulting in the Death of a family member.
Now if this is not settled out of court and goes to the FEDERAL COURTS, that’s it for weed cause its ILLEGAL in the USA to have, or use weed. The laws have not been changed on the FEDERAL stage.
The State will LOOSE.
Same with Immunization. I don’t care what state your living in, your strongly held Personal Religious Beliefs are PROTECTED in the Constitution and its against the law to be Prejudiced against you because of your Religious beliefs.
So just write the boards or the principal a simple letter claiming what is yours.
Regarding the family that had a Catholic school tell them that the school did not recognize religious exemptions: since the State mandates the vaccines in the first place, the school is merely enforcing civil authority’s rules; it is bound just as all other schools to abide by the religious exemption. The statute clearly recognizes the right of the parent, not of the religious organization, to assert the exemptions.
You sir, Are Correct.
Only she needs to ESTABLISH her STRONGLY HELD PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
It is not enough to say it. She needs to develop it without bringing HER religion into it. She needs to establish that its against Her Religion to have another religion forced against hers. (even if she is Catholic) This is the ONLY way to win.
The way the laws are written are to TRICK people. They will ask, “What is your religion”
This is the TRICK. Once she says, Catholic she is DONE. It is all over. https://www.ncbcenter.org/files/1714/3101/2478/vaticanresponse.pdf
This is the Catholic stance… “such cooperation occurs in a context of moral coercion of the conscience of parents, who are forced to choose to act against their conscience or otherwise, to put the health of their children and of the population as a whole at risk. This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible”
The Catholic Church Preaches HERD IMMUNITY. Everyone Must be Immunized for ANYONE to have IMMUNITY.
Therefore, if you say your Catholic, they will quote this very letter at you and DENY your request because you ESTABLISHED your religion!
NEVER EVER SAY YOUR RELIGION PEOPLE!! EVER!!
It is against your CIVIL RIGHTS to tell anyone your religion because you BELIEVE they will be prejudiced against YOU!!! (Civil Rights act 1964 Title VII 201,202,203 https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html
(I QUOTE THE LAWS – I am not a lawyer and have no legal experience – like you JD. But I have my exemption!)
I have my exemption and NO ONE KNOWS my RELIGION!
If someone asks you, “what is your religion” you ask them is “What is a RELIGION” Ask them What is Faith? Ask them What is Collective Salvation? Ask them what is Trust? Ask them what is Justification? Ask them what is a BELIEF?
Then ask them what are Immunizations and what do they do? Do they Trust them? Do they have Faith in them? Do they believe that they save them from Death and Disease?
Then QUOTE the cdc.gov MOTTO. 24/7 Saving Lives/Protecting People Ask them from what do they save your life? From what do they Protect you from? Death and Disease? 24/7 sounds like they are Claiming 100% IMMUNITY all you have to do, is put your Faith and Trust in them and Believe your SAVED from Death and Disease! YEAH!!!! we have a Savior! And their Priests and Deacon’s (doctors and nurses) will gladly administer the sacred act of Vaccination! WOOT the world is SAVED!!!!!
BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! they have to IMMUNIZE all of us. The Catholic even believes that the Parents right to refuse immunization MUST be “ELIMINATED!” Therefore we all must be apostatized on our Personal Religious Belief and be proselytized into this False religion!
Does anyone have a template of a solid letter we can use to fit our state, name, child’s name, etc to include with our certificate of religious exemption? Thanks in advance!
Being a Jainist may also be an option to op out of vaccines since Janist are vegan and all vaccines are made with some type of animal chicken or insect.
Compelling Interest Doctrine
Employment Division VS Smith
494 U.S. 872 (1990)
Justice Robert H Jackson
“As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause”
The Government can not choose that one church gets an exemption and another one does not get an exemption as it targets the particular religious practice of Immunization. Taken to the Supreme Court you will win.
I just came across a great web site! Hope this helps some.
http://vaclib.org/links/religion.htm
I will not offer my son on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunization for their Collective Salvation. That is my Motto.
Ooooohhhh…I love that motto!!! Just sayin’ 😉
Where can I find a form to submit to my employer for refusal of the flu vaccine, based on religious exemption?
Not sure what state you’re in, but this is the one I use for VA. Maybe it’ll at least point you in the right direction.
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/support/health_medical/certificate_religious_exemption.pdf
Jessica, where you able to find it? I also need for my work which, starting this year has no shot no job policy
These ways sure sound like a Christian is going to get a religious exemption, not any other religion. Does my country, currently USA, or state (NJ) accepts only Christian exemptions, or other religions? I am Muslim, and, very similar to Christianity, have it as a sin to animal-test and have another’s blood in the body.
I’m sorry Abdullah but I’m not a muslim (I’m a Christian), so that’s why this post is from the Christian perspective. If I wrote on Islam, it probably wouldn’t get you very far. 🙂 I would say, use what arguments you can from this post and add any others that would fit with the tenets of your religion. Good luck! – Megan
Abdulla – I would regretfully inform you that if you are Christian, a Christ Follower, and Worship Jesus as El Elyon, that Christians proclaim that they can know the mind of El Elyon and those who worship a different god, (Muslims) such as your self, can never know the mind of god. For you, a Muslim, it is said to be that no man can know if they are saved and Christians can know 100% that they are saved because Jesus said in response to the Layers Question, “What must I do to get to Heaven” Jesus answered. “Love the El Elyon (The Most High God) with all your Heart all your Soul all your Mind and Strength, also LOVE your neighbor as yourself.” The Layer then asked “who is my Neighbor”.
So my question to the Muslim Community is, Is a Jew your Neighbor? Is a Christian your Neighbor? and is Jesus your GOD? To All these a True Muslim must answer…no.
Thus it is a true saying that because Christians worship Jesus as God Himself, as the Yahweh and the El Elyon, they they do not worship the same god as Muslims. That said,
Are you my neighbor Abdulla or only if I am a Muslim am I your neighbor?? Do Muslims pray Shalom to be upon Me? Do you wish the Shalom to me? Do you believe, Baruch Haba B`shem Adonai, Yeshua Hamashiach. (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of The Lord, Jesus the Messiah) This phrase in Hebrew Proves Beyond all Reason that Christians and Muslims are not the same. No where near and do not even worship the same god.
That said, the purpose of this thread is not a theological debate over what religion gets an exemption but it is a place to learn about getting what is yours as a right under the Laws of the USA and that is, Freedom OF Religion.
You have to establish that the Government has developed Immunization into a Religion. If you proclaim that you are Muslim and require an exemption on the grounds that you will sin because of ingredients within the vaccine then that is a MORAL objection and thus will be denied.
If you read my posts on this blog you will see that I do not ever tell the gov what my religion is. The Civil Rights act of 1964 forebears any Government agency or any place public to deny you access to your rights.
The second you mention your religion, its over. You Must comply.
Hi Yashi, i sent you a few emails as discussed earlier. I wrote my 1st letter to the school and now they have demanded a meeting with us, the principal of both the primary and intermediate education centers and a stenographer. How should I proceed?
Proceed with Confidence.
This is great news.
You go to the meeting and you tell them that your strongly held personal religious beliefs are such that you are to worship one God and no others and because of this you are requesting a exemption that is yours under the law.
Prepare a Written statement for them. If they are going to RECORD you, then you give them a record.
I would bring 3 copies of the 3 laws listed below. One for you and one for the principal and one extra.
They will most likely introduce themselves and try and confuse you into giving up your rights. NEVER SAY YOUR RELIGION OR CHURCH. Your simply going to apply the laws that they will not know.
The first is the law that grants you the exemption Public Health Law 2164. Print off some copies. Here is the law https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html
You will read into the record section 9 like this. Thank you for your time today, I am exercising my rights under STATUTORY LAW 2164-9 which states…”This section shall not apply….attending school”
Wait for a response. They will quote Title 10 CCR section 66.1 at you.
This is the 2nd law you print off (it does not apply to you!!!!)
If they quote from Title 10 CCR https://regs.health.ny.gov/volume-1a-title-10/1970821741/subpart-66-1-school-immunization-requirements
Print it off and HAND them a copy and then read the very bottom of it.
“Volume A-1a (title 10) is NOT stat law. The Statutory Authority is Public Health Law, Section 2164. ”
Now at this point, they all should be looking at each other and saying, WHAT? what does that mean? A Statutory law is the HIGHER Law. The Lower law is a law that is ILLEGAL in some instances and if challenged in a Court of Law would fail to secure its “rights”. It is subject to the Higher Statutory law. And the Statutory law is thusly subjected to the Constitution of the USA.
Then pull out the BIG GUNS… The Federal Civil Rights act which ALL STATE Laws MUST yield to. If the local law makers make a law that Violates your rights from a FEDERAL standpoint, then the local law is null and void.
Read Civil rights act like this, “Here is a Copy of the Civil rights act of 1964 Title Seven (VII) Title 2 – injunctive relief against discrimination in palces of public accommodation. (Like this School) Section 201 SEC. 201. (a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
Tell them “You will accommodate me by NOT asking me my religion for the sole purpose of establishing what my religion is to then deny me my rights under this and other laws because I believe you will be prejudiced against me”
Furthermore, the federal statute states, SEC. 203. No person shall (a) withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (b) intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202.
Then – Be Sincere.
Say to them “I am very sincere in this” and read section 204
SEC. 204. (a) Whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in any act or practice prohibited by section 203, a civil action for preventive relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order, may be instituted by the person aggrieved and, upon timely application, the court may, in its discretion, permit the Attorney General to intervene in such civil action if he certifies that the case is of general public importance. Upon application by the complainant and in such circumstances as the court may deem just, the court may appoint an attorney for such complainant and may authorize the commencement of the civil action without the payment of fees, costs, or security.
Ask them the if they are trying to establish your religion because the First amendment says, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Tell them again that you are being sincere in establishing your strongly held personal religious belief is contrary the the practice practices herein, and no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school.
Then say these words, “I will not offer my child _______ on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for your Collective Salvation.
Can you send me a quick message to my email- my main account. [email protected] I’ll lay out the 3 laws to quote right at the beginning of the meeting at the VERY first chance you get to speak.
It will be 3 laws, 2641, NY Volume A 1-a 66.1 (known as Title 10 CCR 66.1) and 1964 Civil rights act SEC. 201,202,203 and 204.
After reading the last law, they cant say anything. The meeting will be over. If they speak to ask or establish your religion then your threatening legal action against the School Board.
The frightening thing is, that the simple fact that they called a meeting to establish what your religion says is a Violation of your Civil rights, its an ADMISSION of it a least and a blatant attempt to deny you access to a Public Place at best and thus under the law, is punishable.
Never say your religion. Just say your sincere.
Ill provide you the links for the 3 laws.
Yep! My daughter’s school nurse tried to ask my religion but I told her I don’t legally have to answer that because she cannot legally ask
Hi Yashi.
Do you know if I can get exemption from vaccination if I apply for a green card? I have a baby and don’t want her to vaccinated. I have applied in California which is a mandatory to vaccinate. Before I could just submit a form that vaccinations are agains my beliefs or religion. Now it is not an option I was told. Just for the information. I’m from UK where there’s a choice if you want or don’t want to vaccinate your child.
It is a very interesting question. The answer is, Anyone on American Soil is subject to American Law, even if they are NOT American.
This is what i know about the Green Card.
The CDC will assess whether these vaccines should be required for immigration purposes on a regular and on an as-needed basis according to specific criteria set by CDC.
Say what? They will assess according to Their criteria? Holy mackerel! That’s like saying, I’ll make the rules what I want them to be when I want them to be for how long I want them to be and I’ll change them when I and I alone see fit.
Sounds like they are Lord’ing it over you. Wow that sounds Illegal right there.
the answer is, yes. the government shall make no laws regarding the establishment of religion and has granted you the free exercise there-of.
this law has only existed since Obama put it in place on dec 14th 2009.
Ok found it,
Under section 212(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
(8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(1)(A)(ii)), any alien who seeks admission into the United
States as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an
alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, is inadmissible into the
United States if the alien is unable to present documentation of having
received vaccination against ‘‘vaccine- preventable diseases, which shall
include at least the following diseases: Mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae
type B, and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.’’ Aliens subject to this provision may
apply for a waiver in certain circumstances, e.g., if the vaccination is
not medically appropriate or contrary to the alien’s religious beliefs or moral
convictions.
So there you go.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2009-11-13/pdf/E9-27317.pdf
Your objection is with Worshiping a false god… just like above but quote this law.
Yashi you are great! The only thing I’m thinking is that I can apply for a waiver. Yes, correct. They may not approve it. Although country I’m coming from is perfectly safe as regards to all of those diseases I’m simply afraid they are going to reject my waiver.
Yes you can still get an exemption from immunization for a Green Card. Immigration is a FEDERALLY mandated and needs to follow the laws. Browns 277 law is under attack now as we speak. It targets a SINGLE religious act of Worship. Brown can not dictate what god we worship.
That is a fundamental right and while in the USA on USA soil, your subjected to USA laws.
Now the interesting thing about the green card exemption from immunization is there is also a MORAL OBJECTION aloud! Just say your morally and religiously objected because you can only worship one god. You believe that only Your god can offer you life and save you from death and disease.
Done. Do not say your religion. Just say your number one law. to have no other Gods before Your God. Who else BUT a god can offer Immunity from death? So the issue becomes one of worship. Will you engage in the religious act of vaccination? Will you bow down at the alter of Vaccination? Will you submit to this False God?
Will you offer yourself on the alter of vaccination to the false god of immunity for their collective salvation? Will you be their Savior or will you be Satan and bring death and disease to EVERYONE who is Immunized?
That is the question.
Who will you worship? the god of your CHOICE or the god they TELL you to worship?
Thank you Yoshi. Not sure how to go with this? Ask them for an exemption form or write a letter myself? I will have to go through an embassy meeting prior a green card approval and I’m sure they are going to ask about it.
Anna, Can you drop me a quick email?
My email address is [email protected]
If you don’t want to, that’s OK Too. what I would do on a separate letter with the date of your appointment on the top and not signed on the bottom (so you can sign it infront of the person at the interview) is write something like this that quotes the law….
To Whom it may concern…
I am evoking section 212(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)(8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(1)(A)(ii))
on religious and moral grounds that immunization is against my religion.
I feel uncomfortable talking about my religious belief because I find it hard to convince others with my words how I feel inside. I do not want people to be prejudiced against me. Worshiping my God and my God alone as he is the Giver and Sustainer of Life is a sacred act for me. I believe that to put my hope, faith, trust and belief in something else that can give and sustain life would be a form of worship to it. It is written, my God is a Jealous God and to worship something, or someone else, is a sin. My God teaches me to respect everyone and that my highest calling is to love everyone no matter who they are or where they come from or who or what they worship. Life is a gift from God and therefore I believe all life is sacred. For my God is a God of Love and he loves even me. Because of this I am called to love others, include you who are reading this letter.
So, it is with my deepest sincerity of heart, that I am requesting on religious and moral grounds, that I be exempt from the law so I may follow the laws of my true religion.
Signed,
Faithful Servant.
Abdullah, you should still be able to find similar arguments in the Q’ran.
I’m very much looking forward to your post on how to argue a religious freedom defense against a charge of drunk driving.
Answer, Paul says, Do not get Drunk. So you can’t. Is getting drunk and driving into someone causing bodily harm “loving your neighbor?” Its reckless and hurtful and no religion will support that. If you have a message of hate, please use a different thread to share your indifference. Love Yashi
I am jewish and in nyc the worst state to try to get a religious exemption. Any advice for me? Standard letters talking about jesus won’t help my case and can’t find any sample letters from about jewish point of view
Mika, Shalom!!!
First, it does not matter if your “saved in the Jesus way” (because you are the CHOSEN) so you do not need to be “Grafted IN for it is I who am Grafted into The Way of El Elyon!
Your Law is 2164 same as anyone Under the law. So you can send the school a letter requesting a religious exemption. You have 13 days at the start of the school year to request the exemption. Then quote section 9. DO NOT say your religion!!
If you say your religion they will use it against you. If they ask for your religion point them at Civil Rights act Title VII of 1964 section 201 202 and 203. They can not ask your religion as they may be prejudiced against your religion and thus deny you what is yours under the law.
Please then read the rest of the posts on here as I have laid out the steps – specific steps – for getting an exemption. I have my exemption.
I said, I will not offer my son on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for their Collective Salvation.
Let the layers figure that out.
Maybe you have never heard this but Jesus was A Jew and obeyed all Jewish Laws. What he did to anger others was to say he was God and to accept Worship. But to a Jew it matters not. You have the LAW. Your under the Law and us Christians are under GRACE. The Law still exists!! You will never ever hear me saying anything the Jews must do anything as you are the CHOSEN and I am but a sinner, saved by grace! El Elyon is the ONLY God for me as I’ve been adopted from Hagar – a slave – into the Divine Promise of Sarah (Galatians 4- Written by Paul – a Jew)
Hi! I live in NJ and I am about to register my daugther in a private daycare, how do I start the exemption process? Do I ask the director a form or do I tell her that I will be submitting an exemption? Can private daycare deny my daugther a spot because of that? Should I give them her doctor info? She was vaccinated on an alternative selected schedule before we stopped, also anyone has any inspiration for a letter that doesn’t state the religion neither that I am not secular? Thanks!
BEST ARTICLE EVER! THANK YOU!
Glad you liked it!
I am in Florida and I got the exemption today. The process was very simple except for the judgmental lady who was helping me and two other mothers. She tried to convinced us that we were wrong and crazy. Anyways I am in Miami and the form was DH681, you bring your kid’s social and birth certificate. However you have to call ahead and make an appointment. Besides that it was very simple. I hope this helps and thank you for this very insightful and helpful article. Best of luck to everyone.
Hi Cappy, my son just started a private school in florida. We are not from florida & I hope you could be so kind to reply where exactly in miami do I get the DH681 form. so I can enter it into my gps & have success too.
Thanks!
I’ve been trying desperately to convince my son and his wife to allow no further vaccinations on my 3-month old granddaughter. They didn’t allow the hepB at birth, but DID let them give her all the 2-month shots because they thought that was the only way she would be allowed in daycare when my daughter-in-law returned to work. In VA we (sadly) only have religious and medical exemptions. I’ve been encouraging them to get a religious exemption, but they have absolutely NO religious affiliation. I’m thinking even if they DO finally do their own research and go for the religious exemption, if there’s ANY chance they’ll catch flak, they’ll give it up. Considering the circumstances I’ve given, should I just stop wasting my breath? We have so much vaccine damage throughout our families, I’m terrified of what might happen. I almost wish I weren’t so well informed …
Any Earth-based religion should be accepted, as well (I am Pegan/Wiccan, and a member of a Native American Church).
I obtained a notarized PA religious exemption at the beginning of last school year, when I was registering my daughter for Kindergarten. She will be in 1st grade in the same school this year. My question is, do I have to turn in a new exemption at the start of every school year, turn in a copy of last year’s exemption or do nothing because it’s still technically in my child’s file? Thank you!
It really depends on the school and the state. I submit a new one every year but some schools (especially private) allow you to keep the same exemption on file and only submit a new one if circumstances change.
Hi, Megan! I’m having a hard time finding the law that lets you opt out of immunizations based on your religion I live in MI. I have about a week till school start, I’m trying to put my three year old in pre- school.
Hi Christina,
Here’s the info. you’re looking for:
http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/michigan.aspx
Thank you, How would I incorporate the MI law into my written letter.
Figure it out yourself dear! Meghan has already spoon-fed you what to write. If you don’t know how to incorporate that law, go back to the drawing board, or add it and ask a trusted friend or fellow church member if this makes sense.
Sandra dear! I wrote my own letter without help. I came here for insight I been to the website she give me before she even give it to me. I just couldn’t find what I was looking for theirs many people here she help on exactly what to write I’m not one of them, but thanks.
Hi Megan I have a 6 year old and a 2 year old my oldest son had his booster vaccines at 4 and my 2 year old has all of them except MMR. My husband and I No longer wants to give our children vaccines due to his reglious belief. We don’t know how to go about writing this letter or the exemptions codes for NYC your helped is needed thank you in advance
Hi Yolanda,
NVIC.org will have NY exemption information (look at the state exemptions section of the website and select your state). Use this post to help write your exemption! https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
Bests,
Megan
Hi Ingrid! I’m actually looking into this right now for my daughter starting Kindergarten this year. I came across this FAQ which states the following:
“23. DO STATEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS OR STRONG MORAL OR ETHICAL CONVICTION OPPOSING IMMUNIZATIONS, WHICH ARE SUBMITTED IN WRITING AND SIGNED BY THE PARENT, GUARDIAN OR EMANCIPATED STUDENT, NEED TO BE RENEWED YEARLY.
No. A space on the certificate of immunization (green and white card) is provided for this purpose as a one-time statement.”
Here’s the link to the entire FAQ, hope it works: http://www.health.pa.gov/My%20Health/Immunizations/Pages/School-Immunizations-FAQs.aspx#4
What about Jews? It doesn’t make sense to say “the body is the temple for the holy spirit” because that’s in New Testament, Corinthians. Is that a problem?
Change it to whatever your religion says about God being in you and follow up with the verse(s).
Not a problem because the law allows for a Strongly Held Personal Belief – not a religion.
Hello this was so much help I have been lookgone my everywhere to get help with getting my 5 year old into school. I’m in TN and can’t find the actual law that states I can get a religious exemption. I also need help with the process. Do I go to the school to get the exemption? Or where do I go? Thank you so much!
Hello I am in TN as well, I wanted to know if you found the information needed. I’m still researching and trying to figure it out. I have a little over a week before school starts.
Any help is much appreciated!! 🙂
To Whom it may concern:
We , , as the Parents of the above named child are exercising our rights under the First Amendment of the US Constitution and Tennessee Statutes TCA 49-6-5001 (b)(2) to receive Religious Exemption from Vaccination.
I am fully aware of the risks of not vaccinating as described by the Centers for Disease Control, The American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association.
However, I have sincere religious beliefs that prohibit us from submitting to and receiving vaccinating agents.
Respectfully,
I live in Pennsylvania my child is going into 6th grade chickenpox vaccine can you show me what my letter would look like
thank you in advance
This post was incredibly helpful, thank you! I guess my question is, what happens when your pediatrician(our only choice and monopoly in town) refuses to give out any exemptions, period. The office also threatened to not see my 5 children anymore if I didn’t get all the vaccines. How should I go about this? We live in North Dakota and from what I have researched I am still, by law allowed a religious exemption. Quite frustrating to say the least.
maybe time to get a N Dakota lawyer?
I’d personally go to someone else not in town, drive wherever you have to to see a doctor who is holistic, treats each child individually, and does not make “threats”. I would not let ANYONE, doctor or not, make threats about my kids. You have the power, not the doctor.
Hi all. I have a child about to start college in D.C.. I know they will accept a religious exemption, but does anyone know how detailed I need to get in my letter so that it will be accepted and not challenged?
Hi There!
may you please provide me information on New Jersey Law that lets you opt out of immunizations based on your religion. I am new to NJ, any help will be greatly appreciated! Also, any other advice for writing this. My son has been partially vaccinated and I did submit his immunizations for the kindergarten program last September, however the Nurse lost that document and is asking for another copy.Should i give the letter this month or in September? Thanks in advance! I look forward hearing from you!
I know of no anti-vaccinator who would not allow their child to have a rabies vaccine if said child was scratched or bitten by an animal (wild or domestic) that might be rabid (and could not be contained in isolation for testing). Rabies is 100% fatal.
Although we do not typically vaccinate against anthrax, terrorists have used live anthrax bacteria (sent through the mail or dispersed in other ways). The idea of using anthrax bacteria as a weapon is a possibility, as terrorist plots generally involve the masses, large crowds. What better way to kill masses of people than with a dispersal of live anthrax spores?
The disease of anthrax infections has a long history with mankind. It is a bacterium that primarily effects grazing animals, such as sheep, cattle, goats and horses. Anthrax was known to ancient cultures, and is described to have killed 40,000 horses and 100,000 cattle in the possession of the Huns during their movement across Eurasia in 80 AD. As a considerable bane to the European livestock trade, throughout the 18th and 19th century, much effort was put into the identification and prevention of anthrax in animals. Anthrax (scientific name Bacillus anthracis) was the first microorganism identified as the cause of a specific disease by Dr. Robert Koch in 1876. Later that year Dr. Koch was growing Anthrax bacillus in his laboratory. Within the decade, Louis Pasteur for use in livestock developed a viable anthrax vaccine.
World War I saw the possible introduction of anthrax as a weapon against livestock and transportation animals. A clandestine biological research laboratory was set up in Baltimore, MD by the German government in 1915. A number of suspected uses of anthrax by the German government during World War I were alleged, but not well documented. Japan, Great Britain, and the United States all proceeded with research into the use of anthrax bacillus as a weapon in World War II. While no combatants used anthrax during this war, the Anthrax bacillus was both tested on animals and allied prisoners. Weapon delivery systems were also developed. The former Soviet Union also developed a biological research program during the Cold War. The accidental release of anthrax from a secret bio-weapons research facility in Sverdlovsk, USSR resulted in the death of 66 of 77 diagnosed cases.
Pulmonary anthrax starts with inhalation of anthrax spores. The US Army estimates that inhalation of 8,000-50,000 spores can cause infection. After an incubation period of one to seven days, an exposed individual develops flu-like symptoms {malaise, fatigue, myalgia (body ache), fever and non-productive cough} that persist for two to three days. After a leveling of symptoms or improvement, severe respiratory distress with symptoms of dyspnea (difficulty breathing), stridor (grating sound on inspiration that is associated with upper respiratory obstruction), cyanosis (bluish colour in skin due to lack of O2 exchange due to lung damage), increased chest pain, tachycardia (excessively rapid heart rate) and diaphoresis (excessive sweating) develop. Fifty percent of victims will develop meningitis. Within twenty-four to thirty-six hours, the victim experiences the rapid onset of shock and subsequent death. Inhalation anthrax has a mortality of 95-100% despite antibiotic treatment. Of course, it is possible to injest anthrax spores, as well. Ingestion anthrax has an incubation period of 2-5 days. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting fever and severe abdominal pain. Ingestion anthrax has a mortality of 95-100% despite antibiotic treatment.
I can just see all of the anti-vaxxers racing to get anthrax vaccines if terrorists stoop this low. Anthrax has been used as a weapon, quite effectively, before. I’m sure that terrorists have thought of using it.
In Lake City, Florida, there was a recent pertussis (whooping cough) outbreak among some high school students who had not been vaccinated. Guess what? The anti-vaxxers in the area were practically RACING to their Local Health Departments to get vaccinations for their children.
It’s clear…..there are two ways to develop immunity to polio, diphtheria, tetanus, rabies, small pox, mumps, chicken pox, measles (rubella), anthrax, cholera, HPV….and so on and so on (different vaccines for different global areas are recommended). 1) get vaccinated (almost always works, God gave scientists the talents and skills necessary to develop vaccines OR, have the actual disease. How could you ever apologize ENOUGH to a child after they meet their demise from a disease that YOU could have vaccinated them against? OR, if a child survives but is left with permanent neurological deficit or other life-long issues, how could you ever apologize ENOUGH to them?
I know of a child who was not vaccinated against pertussis (whooping cough). The child spent 5 months, literally, at DEATH’s DOOR, while the best infectious disease physicians in the United States tried to save her life. She has permanent neurological deficits, requires 24/7 care, and lives with a permanent tracheotomy. Her lung function is less than 35%. The weakest cold virus (there are more than 200 of them) could kill her. She has to wear a mask when she leaves her home. She’s never been able to walk and she’s NINE years old. How can her parent(s) ever APOLOGIZE enough to this child?
HPV-related cancers are rising in incidence GEOMETRICALLY. More and more young people in the 20s and 30s are being diagnosed with HPV-related cancers of the oral cavity (tongue and mouth), throat, esophagus, cervix, penis, and vagina. How could you ever apologize ENOUGH to your son or daughter, if and when they develop an HPV-related cancer WHEN the disease could have been prevented by a vaccine? HPV-related cancers are increasing among our young generations GEOMETRICALLY! This means that the number of young people developing these cancers is growing so fast that we can’t even keep a good count!
Vaccines do not cause autism, retardation, growth delays, mental deficits, learning disabilities…..there are very rare cases (often greatly exaggerated by anti-vaxxers) where a vaccine has injured an individual, but these are exceedingly rare! Entire generations of people have been vaccinated with no ill effects. A few famous people (you know who they are) started all of this hype. It is WAY out of hand. You don’t see dogs and cats dying from vaccines. You don’t see horses developing learning disabilities from vaccines.
A properly administered vaccine series is MANY, MANY, MANY times safer than having the actual disease. Vaccines are weakened or killed pathogens! Exposure to a weakened or killed pathogen is the best way to develop immunity to a deadly disease….but, on the other hand, you can choose to medically neglect your children. Then, how could you ever apologize enough??? If you don’t believe me, just GOOGLE IRON LUNG. What a tragedy!
As you may guess, I am a biologist. If terrorists expose us to anthrax, I will be right there, asking for my vaccine. If I am scratched or bitten by an animal that couldn’t be contained, I’ll be right there, asking for my vaccine. And…..all of you anti-vaxxers would be there, too!
Lin, there are other ways of protecting from rabies/anthrax etc and that is herbal remedies and homeopathy. On the CDC website, they state that noone has died from the mumps in recent years but on the VAERS website it states that there have been 98 deaths from the MMR vaccine and nearly 700 disabilities from 2005 until 2015. People say the benefits outweigh the risks. I disagree 100%. Go to the VAERS website and see all the claims made for deaths and disabilities – nearly 4 billion of tax payers money has been spent so far and Big Pharma has no accountability as they are protected by congress! And there is a cap for a death – you can only claim up to $250,000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TAEVV3gGHI&t=32s View this link and see the corruption! When we talk about outbreaks, we need to differentiate as there are also vaccine strains – we are not just looking at wild strains. There is also the para-pertussis strain and there is no vaccine against it. When you speak about pertussis, you need to differentiate. Just like when we speak of meningitis, there are 5 different strains where the vaccine does not protect against the the B strain (only the A, C, Y and W135 strains). There is also vaccine derived polio strain that is causing paralysis in India today…….there is much more going on here that i don`t have time to write about.
Ide like to see you make this argument against a group of very knowledgeable “anti vaxxers”. Come join us Lin. @ Stop Mandatory Vaccination.
“HPV-related cancers” – do you even know what HPV is? I have HPV virus (got it 20 years ago), no cancer whatsoever. It’s all bullshit. HPV is just warts that will dissapear on their own
I was told I had HPV at age 30. How funny! A few months later there was no sign of it. How many girls and boys have died from the HPV shot? What no one ever mentions on any sites are that 90% of the time vaccines are kept in a dorm style fridge which is opened all day. If the vaccines are not at the correct temperature, they are useless.
Not a Legal Response. Please Quote the laws that say we can NOT choose our religious beliefs no matter how you “might feel about it”
This NO vaccine family would never vaccinate, even if rabies were proven. Rabies is NOT 100% fatal. Info found online by doing a routine search. It has been and is both preventable and cureable with fasting, herbs and Vitamin C (oral and IV). Look up Dr. Linus Pauling (all viruses curable with Vit C) and the wonderful books by Juliette de Bairacli Levy. She prevented and cured rabies and other “impossible to cure” things using only natural means (fasting, herbs…). She does state she was never able to cure rabies in vaxxed animals though. I believe this is because of the destruction vaccines cause to the immune system/entire body.
Our family cured a puppy with parvo using herbs, raw goat milk, raw ground, organic meats and vegetables. Before learning about natural methods, we lost 6 puppies to parvo despite their being hospitalized and treated by a conventional vet who did everything he knew to do. Homeopathy also cures impossible cases, including snake bites, polio and autism.
Another good one. Another point when the school system lawyer is grilling you (or whoever) is that the constitution RECOGNIZES your human right to freedom of religion and clearly states that no aspect of govt has authority to take that away from humans.
The constitution DOES NOT ALLOW for govt or “authority” approval of your religious beliefs. That comes from the US Constitution – the highest law in the land. NO congressional law, no Supreme Court ruling, No Executive Order has authority over that constitution – so they are totally out of line in grilling you and choosing to grant or not grant you approval for your spiritual beliefs.
We who follow other spiritual paths have a different set of issues in that we can’t quote your scriptures, but have valid spiritual beliefs ourselves.
yes brad, I agree!! People don`t realize that they are not allowed to be grilled! We are exercising the first amendment based on the Virginia bill of Rights that “All men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.” And it is nonsense if anyone wants to put you on a panel to see if they accept your religious exemption!!! Religion and conscience are connected.
this is in article vıı of 1964
Hi, I need some info. Can someone give me the law for NYS that lets you opt out of immunizations based on your religion. Also, any other advice for writing this. My son has been partially vaccinated and I did submit his immunizations for the pre-k program. Thanks in advance!
I SURE CAN!!
Read down and you will get the WHOLE law.
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf
Now as you can see in section 7 you have 13 days to notify them. So one the day you send them to school, send the letter in with your child to the PRINCIPAL.
The Principal does NOT have the power to issue you the exemption and they will send you a letter with TITLE 10 on it and instructions for you to follow.
Do not mention to them that you have any immunization at all. It is None of their business.
So read this blog all the way down.
I explain on here what you need to do.
So in your letter you will write the principal and tell him/her that you are seeking an exemption as entitled to you under section 2164-9 and NO ” no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school. ” (that is right from the STATUTORY LAW)
The Stat law is the HIGHEST law and can not be over ridden!! Not by title 10 or anything.
Also tell them that you will not tell them your religion because you feel you would be discriminated against!! That is article 7 1964 section 201 202 and 203!
have fun reading
Thanks Yashi. The problem is I already submitted his immunization record for Pre-K over a year ago so the school already has it on file. Any advice?
An Individual has the right to change his/her mind, or as they say, “to find the faith” So in your letter, do not hide it, but expose that. Your faith is PERSONAL and you have Found your Religion.
Now having found your Religion, you are going to abide by its tenants and codes – codes is a code word for “laws”. Your Laws in your Religion most likely says that you are to have and serve ONE GOD.
Now if you read all of my posts here you will find that the Government has Established a Religion that is against your “new found Faith” and your code is against the government’s code and you must therefore REJECT their claim that the CDC 24/7 Saves Lives/Protects people as your GOD is the only one that can do that.
So you will not offer your child on the Alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for their Collective Salvation.
Remember a Vaccine CAN kill. I don’s care if the odds are 1 in 10 Million. There are 324 MILLION people (or more with illegal immigration) in the USA. so one in 10 million is still 32 people WILL DIE as a result of a Vaccine Reaction.
They will FEAR you into thinking that you will die without a vaccine that was created 80 years ago and these same people believe that people have been on the earth since 1,297,983 BC (Before Christ).
Most important, in your letter tell them you are sincere in your religion but will not tell them what “faith” you found as they will be prejudiced against it and you. Quote them Article VII of 1964 section 201 202 and 203. You can not be prejudiced against your religion in a PUBLIC PLACE. (your school is paid for with Public Tax Dollars and thus, they can ask but you do not have to tell). If they force you to tell in a letter, then they have BROKEN a FEDERAL Statutory LAW and on those grounds, you can sue the School Board.
The Law is on your side and they MUST afford you the exemption as the LAW dictates. They can not, no they will not hold what is yours and keep it from you.
Thank you for posting Yashi, your wealth of info is very helpful! I am a first time mama of a toddler who I’d like to send to a private school in NYC. Is the process any different than it is for public school? I’m afraid to mention anything about exemptions while just visiting the school and going on a tour, let alone once we submit an application. I’ve also heard about the interviews and don’t know how to approach them (I want to be firm but not defensive). Do you happen to know anyone in the same boat or maybe a website where I could find out which private schools have higher exemption rates than others?
Thanks!
thank you for all your info on Article VII of 1964! I am currently seeking a religious exemption from my local community college in Washington State. The nursing program I am taking pre-req’s for require specific vaccines. Since I have Rheumatoid Arthritis I thought I would be able to get a medical exemption, but my doctor won’t authorize it because he says I can receive them no problem, except for live ones. I did my positive antibody titers but do not have any antibodies for Hep B, and they also require the Tdap vaccine (titers won’t suffice).
The Associate Dean of the Nursing Program emailed me and says they will accept religious exemptions if the clergy of my church writes a letter.
Wouldn’t that be teetering on the edge of asking what church I belong to? Why would I need to get approval or validation for my spiritual and religious beliefs to make them count?
Any advice is appreciated!
Why would I need to get approval or validation for my spiritual and religious beliefs to make them count?
This is the “they trick you” section and is the part that is against the Article VII of 1964. The fact they asked you for this is a violation of section 202.
So your going to answer them like this…
It is my strongly held personal, religious belief that I will not offer myself on the alter of vaccination to the false god of Immunization for your collective salvation. My religion teaches me that I am part of a Holy Priesthood and as such you are now receiving notification from my holy writ.
My religion teaches me that my god is a jealous god and I shall have no other gods before Him. The CDC’s motto is “24/7 savings lives/protecting people”. Protecting people from what and how does it manifest its ability to save lives on a spiritual basis?
Is it saving us from death and disease? Is the CDC saying it has the POWER to preserve my life from death? No sir, it is with my GOD that I live and move and have my being. For my trust is not in the flesh and blood of this fallen world but in the Power and the Glory and the Magnificence of the Life saving Sacrifice of God Almighty HIMSELF.
Therefore, I will not sacrifice my strongly held personal religious beliefs afforded to me by the 1st amendment of this great country to submit myself to some religious ritual to some fake god that promises to save my life because I am ALREADY saved!
Justice Robert H Jackson wrote in his Compelling Interest Doctrine that “As long as a law does not target a particular religious practice, it does not violate the Free Exercise Clause”. Employment Division VS Smith 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
Now it is my understanding that the CDC is a false religion in that it promises that if we have faith in the vaccine that we will have Immunity against Death and Disease. If we Trust in the Power of the Vaccine, 100% Immunity will be ours. But the CDC also says that that Death will come if we do not have Heard Immunity. That if everyone is not indoctrinated into their Religion that the False god of Immunity will Take away our Salvation and we shall die!!!
This is utter foolishness. My God saves ONCE and FOR ALL!!!
So no I will not sacrifice myself on the ALTER of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for your Collective SALVATION!!!
Furthermore, since you offer to give me what is rightfully mine under the law I am now thanking you for granting me my religious Exemption.
Sincerely yours
____________________
I am in the same boat, also live in NYS. Im not sure how to go about sending our exemption letter in with the health appraisal form that my sons doctor will have to fill out and will have his immunization records attached. The school also has his records from last year when he was in Pre-k.
Please read through my posts. The Exception says that NO letters are required. Therefore, none shall be given.
Tell them that NONE shall be given as you are simply following “the Statutory Law 2164-9 of NY State”. IGNORE TITLE 10. Its a fake law and has a NOTWITHSTANDING Clause cause it has to CONFORM to the Statutory Law. (just quote it and let the school district layers decide if they want a legal battle – they CANT win and NEVER say your Religion is __________. You say MY Religion is MY OWN and I wont tell you cause your prejudiced against ME!!!)
And that if the continue to trying may you say your religion so they can be prejudiced against you, that is a Violation of your Civil Rights 1964 VII section 201, 202 for a PUBLIC place – a public school.
That is it. Tell them straight up that you have been fighting Immunization for Years and will continue this fight until they grant you what is yours under the law.
This is being sincere.
Also, my son is finishing up Pre-K and I was hoping to submit this letter before the end of this school year to be sure there were no problems with him entering kindergarten. Would there be a huge advantage of waiting? I will reference the first law but I would also like to include the NYS law and then state my reasoning for requesting religious exemption. I just want to be sure there are no problems. Do you have an email address that maybe when I’m finished you can proof read quick? I appreciate your assistance! Thank you
Because Pre-K is not mandatory, it is NOT binding according to the law. You will send a letter to the school NO LESS than 13 Days from the START of the school Year (in New York State) 2164 -5 outlines this.
This letter will be addressed to the PRINCIPAL and put into the child’s BAG for the TEACHER. It should be done the VERY FIRST day of school and NOT before. Thus, the letter will reach the Principal DURING the “SCHOOL YEAR”.
As for the NY State Code 10 – the one they will quote at you – it is irrelevant. It is NOT the statutory law. It has a NOTWITHSTANDING clause and references such as 2164.
You are free to tell them your reason for requesting the religious exemption but the government is FORCED not to ESTABLISH a religion. That means they can not rule that one religion can get an exemption and a different one can…UNLESS THEY TRICK YOU AND PLAY YOU FOR A FOOL.
Like the Amish do not have to vaccinate but the Catholics do. Here is why. If you tell someone your Catholic then “they” will look at what the leaders of the Catholic church say about vaccinations. Now the official stance of the Catholic church is that you can vaccinate. therefore, “THEY” have just tricked you and you MUST vaccinate or risk your kids being taken away from you and force vaccinated against your wishes.
So I never say what religion that I am…ever. I only say that the government has established a religion of Immunization with the CDC saying that they and ONLY they can Save lives/ protect people….24/7…against DEATH. that is a religion.
So I say my religion is against that “CODE”.
As for an email, you can use [email protected] and I’d be happy to look at and proof read for you.
I will not write it for you as you need to be sincere. You must believe what you right as a strongly held personal religious belief.
Yashi.
Hello
I have some questions about this
I just received a letter from my school district
I live in NYS
They quoted 10 NYCRR s 66-1.3
And said their practice is to require provision of supporting documents as authorized by this regulation to accompany a request and they listed examples
My question is what do I do now?!!!
I feel like I need to hire a lawyer to write a letter for me
PleAse help!!
Katie from NY
yes this is title 10 code rules and regs. simply say, this, I am requesting an exemption afforded to me NOTWITHSTANDING. 2164 section 9 states that no certificate shall be required and NONE SHALL BE GIVEN.
then go all legal on their heads and say, Title 10 is NOT a statuatory law and i am thus invoking my rights afforded to me under section 2164-9 of Public Health Law NYS.
I will not offer my son/daughter on the alter ov vaccination to the false god of immunity for your collective salvation. On those grounds i am once again being sincere and requesting what is rightfully mine by law, a religious exemption.
Then they will say they will bring this to the board in the next letter as a threat…
so once you get that letter thank the person for their time and directing you to the people that have the authority to issue you the exemption. Now you move to not asking for an exemption but now your DEMANDING it. You threaten in a tone that you will take them to court unless they give you what is rightly yours as you have a strongoy heald personal religious belief, that is, you will not worship a false god that promises immunization to prevent death and disease. only your God can give and take life.
please DO NOT EVER SAY your religion. Turn it back on them. dont fall for their tricks. make them defend a false god…if they even know what that means.
Most of these anti-vaxxers never even had a religion, faith, or went to church….until ALL of the SUDDEN, they didn’t want their child to be vaccinated because some Hollywood actress said it’s dangerous. Now, all of the sudden…..I have to find a religion!! HELP! All of the sudden, these people are religious!! Oh, please!!
Your comments are a result of incoherant ramblings with no basis in LAW.
What people are seeking is a LEGAL right to Not IMMUNIZE – Vaccination is the Religious Act of Immunization. It’s like Baptism into a religion. My guess is you Believe and have Faith that the vaccine will bring 100% Immunity against physical DEATH with no regard to the Spiritual Symbolism surrounding the act.
Your worshiping a false god. Your trusting that vaccine to bring you 100% immunity. But wait. Do they promise 100% immunity? But then how do you get say Measles if your Fully Immunized? Well you blame it on someone who has not been immunized of course. You say – THEY ARE NOT VACCINATED and now I’m sick.
So your immunity is safe if others are immune but if someone else has the disease your immunity does not protect you? How is that so? Your faith then is in a false sense of reality? Were you really immune to begin with? Your immunity can be taken away?
Your saying that my son, who is not vaccinated, can simply cough on you and you get the measles and die a horrible death..but why then does my son not die? Is he a carrier? Where does his immunity come from? How come he is not dead?
Simply put – go and get yourself Immunized and if you trust in it so much I am sure it can not be “removed”. Or is it that your not immune and that your false god has tricked you.
There is a saying, “let those with eyes see, and let those with ears hear.” The eyes are spiritual and some people are blind to the truth. Some people are deaf because they do not want to hear the truth so they substitute the Spiritual truth with something false to satisfy themselves.
Know this, The truth shall set you free and those that are free, are free indeed.
for we do not fight against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities in this present dark world.
So I’ll remain a light unto the world to shine in the dark places. The law’s are there to protect us from the darkness.
The Law is the Candle and our God is the light, so hold your candle high!
Yashi.
Thank you so much Megan!!!
So welcome! Thanks for reading. 🙂
So excellent. Glad you brought up blood transfusions along with organ transplants and fetal tissue, and that just because a pastor (elder, priest), in your congregation, may agree with vaccines, their decision, on the matter, has no merit on your own Bible based decision; or conscience matter. No reputable religious leader could deny one of the flock that reasoning. Being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I already decided to use this tactic if push came to shove, if my medical reasons (Hashimotos-autoimmune) were ignored. Two reasons better than one.
Extremely dangerous advice. Childhood vaccinations have saved countless lives and avoided much needless suffering. Your children are not getting ill due to a factor called “herd immunity”. I certainly respect religious freedom and freedom of speech. I need to point out where you re wrong.
“At least 27 vaccines contain cells, cellular debris, protein, and DNA from aborted babies including (but not limited to), Adenovirus, Polio, Dtap/Polio/HiB Combo, Hep A, Hep A/Hep B Combo, MMR, MMRV Pro Quad, Rabies, Varicella, Shingles vaccines, Ebola, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza vaccines.”
This statement is just incorrect on all levels. There are no aborted babies to make vaccines! NONE EVER! Years ago, cells (not organs, not tissue, but cells smaller than are visible to the eye) from fetus’s were used for research. The medical community uses the term “aborted” for miscarriages as well as voluntary pregnancy interruptions. People need to understand this. You are not being injected with parts of dead babies taken from fetus’s from abortion clinics.
I pray your children never become sick with any of those terrible diseases. Go out and ask a few of our very elderly what those diseases did when they were children. Listen carefully.
Peace,
David
I’m sorry but you are simply incorrect. Citations are hyperlinked. Feel free to read them and I would recommend starting with the pkg inserts and CDC excipients list where it clearly list product ingredients.
P.S – It’s not just cells (again citations in article) and where do you think the cells, residual tissue, and DNA are derived from?
Bests,
Megan
Ok then please this. The CDC has reported 2930 cases of Mumps in Arkansas. Of those 2930 cases 95% were 100% vaccinated! (I provide Links http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/health/mumps-texas/ )
So 5% were not “fully up to date” on their vaccine… M M R.
Fully Vaccinated means 2 Doses by age 4.
The CDC says that the efficacy of the MMR is 88% !!!! That in reality is a flat out lie or the outbreak was NOT 2930 cases but rater 12% of the actual cases. If the CDC is telling the truth and 12% of the people in Arkansas were NOT COVERED by the efficacy of the MMR then the CDC reported 257,840 cases of MUMPS IN ARKANSAS!!!
Arkansas has a population of just under 3 MILLION people. So if my math is correct, then 1 in 6 people there got the Mumps.
You can’t have it both ways.
Where did the CDC get the number 88% efficacy? Did they do research in a lab or just pull the number from the air because there are 12% of the population not not vaccinating? (its not vaccinating either its IMMUNIZATION)
So please respond.
Recap. CDC says 88% effective is MMR
Outbreak 2930 persons CONFIRMED and REPORTED to the CDC
95% CONFIRMED FULLY VAXED
5% Not FULLY vaxed or not Vaxed at all.
2,784 people did NOT receive IMMUNIZATION but 351 people did.
The number of NON VACINATED kids was N O T R E P O R T E D!!!
Why were the number of kids who had not received the Immunization NOT reported!
Answer, because the CDC did not release the information. The CDC HAS the information because the DR’s Reported the kids as Fully Vaxed and Not Fully vaxed. Not fully vaxed is receiving only ONE dose by age 4-6 (its actually 5 cause you cant get into school without it at age 5 so that’s a misnomer)
So CDC release the number of kids NOT Vaccinated (immunized) that caught the MUMPS.
My guess is the number will be 0 because if it were 12% we would have heard about it in the news.
Go to the CDC website that lists the ingredients. Then look up what WI-38 and MRC-5 are. Then after come back and talk. Also while you are at it look up what VERO cells are. Have a great day!
Hi everyone – can a private school, montessori, be exempt from accepting these exemptions because they are not funded by the government? We’re in chicago IL and got turned down from enrolling our son due to this. Thanks for your help.
Ann, I am hoping someone answers your question. I am also in Chicago and have wondered this about the private schools.
Ann,
My child is in the process of enrolling into a Montessori school as well. We are not in Chicago, however, I printed out my states exemption form and had it notarized then submitted it to the school. This was not good enough for them, so I went to my child’s pediatrician and she wrote a 2 sentence letter that basically says that my child is free of all communicable diseases and is free to proceed on to school and activities. Luckily, the school didn’t ask for anything else so I am assuming this was just fine. If that doesn’t work for you, then source the CDC and tell them everything that a vaccine is made up of. List vaccine related injuries in your state or in general, etc. The more knowledgeable and passionate you are about being anti-vaccine, the more serious they will take you and will stop pressuring you into inocculating your child. Then he will be free to go to school. It is a long process, but, never stop fighting for your child!
Hi Candee,
Are you in NYC? If so, would you please share which location you applied to? We are in Manhattan and I’d like to apply for Montessori as well (for our toddler).
Hi,
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Love this! Thank you!
Yes! Thank you so much! You’re amazing. Much appreciation ❤️
I live in Georgia and my college rejected my influenza vaccine exemption waiver that was signed by an officiant. They stated they need a letter on letterhead in addition to that document. From reading the other comments it appears that this is a violation of the first admendment. Am I correct? How would I write a rebuttal letter for that?
yes that is correct. The 1st amendment says that the government can not establish a religion.
So in a letter define what a religion is…”a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.”
Does the government consider the pursuit of 100% immunization as supremely important?” Yes. Proof is the CDC.gov (GOVERNMENT registered web page…) Its MOTTO is 24/7 SAVING LIVES/PROTECTING PEOPLE.
so what does saving lives/protecting people mean? Well it must be against death and disease?
Does the government create laws and CODES to enforce their protection of your life against death?
Sure does in New York State its called CODE TITLE 10
What is a CODE? A set of beliefs that are enforced by LAW
So far I have shown that the Government has indeed established a Religion and has established LAWS to enforce the CODE and created a Web page.
So basically the government has said that I can not send my kid to school because it has established a LAW saying that if my kid is NOT Immunized he can not attend because my KID will infect other children that HAVE IMMUNITY. This is called heard Immunity.
“The resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.”
So the government wrote another law that says my kid MUST attend school. But they worte a law saying that my kid HAS to be immunized!
Therefore, its a Catch 22. If I dont immunize then I break the law. because the law says my kid must be in school. but I cant put my kid in school cause he is not immunized.
Thus the government has written the law that says ALL CHILDREN will be vaccinated and brought into the RELIGION (utmost importance) if IMMUNIZATION
So now if I am educated my mind goes to 1964 and Martin Luther King JR and the Civil Rights Movement. Yes I am a middle age white male.
This article VII of 1964 states that no one can force their religion upon me and I am free from discrimination. This means that the Government can not ask me what my religion actually is because they would discriminate.
Let me explain. Section 201 202 and 203 of Article 7 1964 says that I can not face religion discrimination and the government shall make NO LAWS (CODES) that will infringe upon my rights!
But they have! That is why NY STATE title 10 has a NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE!!!
So you need to find a way to invoke the NOTWITHSTANDING clause.
You do not have to say your religion because they (is ANYONE asking) ask.
In summary I will not offer my son on the alter of vaccination to the false god of Immunity for their collective salvation.
Saying those words will allow you to get a religious exemption even if your not religious because “they” cant ask for your religion because “they” will be prejudiced against you and that is against the law.
Thanks for holding up the light on this. Many blessings to you!
It’s actually simple to get religious exemption, such as by joining an online religious faith called “Fellowship of Divine Tenets” . There are quite a few religions like that on the Internet which specifically prohibit vaccines. There also another one called “Congregation of Universal Wisdom” which the New York Times mentioned. The former allows you to join directly online, while the later requires a paper application.
I love this. Thanks! In the letter write these words.
I will not offer (insert name here) on the alter of vaccination to the false god of immunization for your collective salvation as this violates my religious rights according to the 1st amendment rights and article VII of 1964 section 201,202 and 203.
Then let them figure out what the heck your talking about!!!
Can I just get you to write my letter for me?
Yes I could just write a letter for you but that would not show that you are sincere.
The NY STATE Public Heath Law 2164-9
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This section shall not apply to children whose parent, parents, or guardian holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to the practices herein required, and no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school.
You need to be sincere and if/when you are called in-front of a board or a court, you need to stand up and be sincere.
The definition of sincere is: free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest:
If I was to write the letter for you, you and I both would not be sincere and thus in Violation of the law as being in deceit.
Being sincere is NOT being nice. being sincere is showing the willingness to fight for what you believe in. It shows a history of fighting for what you believe.
Let me explain. When my wife went in to the hospital to give birth I was given a form to fill out to be admitted. My wife was given 2 minutes or so to look over all 5 pages and then sign here and there and there and here….
I asked one question and they whisked my wife away and I was left standing by myself at the admitting window in the maternity ward.
I waited for 20 minutes before someone came back and looked after me. I had no idea where the heck my wife was and what was on the forms. I was panicked!
So beside each question I wrote these words, “ASK FIRST” and then I signed my initials right after it.
I must have written ask first 15 times!
So when the nurse did come and get me and showed me to my wife’s room they took the clipboard with the papers on it from me and then they left.
When my son was born they took him straight to the warming table to get him breathing, my wife had hemorrhaged and I went with the boy as my wife was bleeding out. This is what we discussed at home, for my eyes NEVER to leave sight of our son.
so when they put my son on the table and after getting him breathing they put some sort of gel like stuff on his forehead and I told them STOP!!! The nurse looked at me and said they have to do it. I said I did not consent. they said I did. I said no fuggen way!! they said I did when they admitted us. I said i did no such thing and they went to get the forms. On the forms for the vaccine it said, ASK FIRST. so they asked me and I said NO. they said he would go blind. I said I don’t care. Your NOT doing it.
the dr came in and tried to convince me for it. i said no. He said, the baby will die. I said, its up to GOD to take this child or not and its up to me to protect him. God game him to ME not you. now wipe that sh*t off his face.
That is being sincere. I have been fighting this for 6 years now with the dr’s saying my son will die. Well he aint dead yet as GOD himself had preserved his life not some fake immunity from a false god man made worship thing.
Sorry for the rant. but are you sincere? I will not offer my son on the alter of Vaccination to the false god of Immunity for their collective salvation.
Yashi
Wow!!!! Amen Brother!!! God is our refuge and strength!!! Keep fighting the good fight!!!!
Your most educated reasoning for not being afraid of measles is “Schmeasle measles” and to listen to the Bible? Do you realize that measles are easily preventable by a vaccine and that the virus is spread by airborne, which is the most contagious route, and that it is dangerous for children? There are now epidemics of diseases that were once eradicated just because uneducated people don’t understand the ingredients in vaccines or believe that “God doesn’t like vaccines.” I’m pretty sure if you interpreted the Bible figuratively instead of literally, as it’s supposed to be interpreted, God would be okay with protecting yourself and the population He created by getting simple vaccines that can prevent millions of deaths. Doesn’t that sound more like treating your body like a temple and respecting it by keeping it healthy?
Hi Taylor, Schmeaasle Measles is the name of a well-referenced post I wrote about measles. You’ll find it here: https://www.livingwhole.org/this-mama-isnt-scared-of-the-shmeasle-measles/
If you want the biblical argument against vaccines, you’ll find it here: https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
Enjoy.
Megan
This post is a bit newer, so I’m hoping you’ll see this. I would love to know under what authority you offer this interpretation of Scripture. No one build their faith alone, and all teaching comes from a place of community -the Body of Christ may not agree on every aspect of every issue, but teaching is reliant on connection to the historic-future Church, lest we be guilty of shaping religion in our own image. So, what traditions, communities, and teachers have led to this position you have taken? How have you derived these conclusions? What studies of theology, history, religion, etc. were major influences for your views?
Topher Endress Please be careful in your approach to other believers. Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:12 said, “And when you sin against other believers by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ.”
You ask of studies of theology, history, religion? What does this matter?
If I believe that the CDC has invented a religion and has established a False god then is it my duty or the Holy Spirit that should persuade you?
Lets break down a religion. A religion is defined as – a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. Some would say Immunization is of supreme importance, so much so that they “believe” without being Vaccinated, you will die and possibly infect others and they may dies as a result of not being proselytized in their “belief”. Some would say they have 100% faith – defined as complete trust or confidence in someone or something. – even though it has been proven to cause a death or two and the vaccine will provide 100% IMMUNITY. So much so that the ingredients and the risk of death is to be overlooked and people are just unbelievers in the “science – the DOGMA” of Immunity.
So by “trusting” and having “faith” in your religion of “Immunity” and requiring proselytizing through “herd immunity” (everyone MUST BE VACCINATED), called collective salvation, such as, if you are vaccinated and I am not your immunity is removed because I am not in your religion and have not been through the sacred act of immunization, that you can die because your immunity is removed because I am not immunized.
This of course is preposterous because either you ARE immune or you are not unless your immunity can “wear off”. Um, the Blood of Christ NEVER wears off! Your “god” is then proven to be a “false god” offering you something you can’t have in the name of Science.
Conclusion:
The bible says, I shall have no god before me! I will NOT offer myself on the Alter of Vaccination to the False god of immunity for your collective salvation!
Yashi
Yashi all I can say is Boom goes the dynamite….keeping it 100.
Thopher,
you don’t have to like what she wrote, and she does not owe anyone explanation of this. And how about the fact that during Bible times there were no vaccinations, and people lived healthier and longer lives. I am not starting a fight here!! This is a matter of a choice and last time I checked God has given us free will to choose. By choosing one or the other it is not a salvation issue . It is a matter of respecting once will, and minding their own. So sooner or later we all are going to be responsible for all the choices we make , you make sure you are worried about yours.
Marina,
I’m sorry, in biblical times people did not live longer and healthier lives. Even if you believe vaccines aren’t responsible for the increases in longevity and quality of life over the past century you have to accept that modernization has yielded many innovations that makes life much more comfortable than biblical times. If you would like me to post evidence in favor of that just let me know, I would be more than happy to do so.
I will not offer my child on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunization for your collective salvation.
The CDC motto is 24/7 Saving Lives/Protecting People. That is the job of God and God alone.
Google it. You will see it right at the top. They have made Immunization into a False god that will save your life, from what??? Death and Disease of course. Basically they are saying , be vaccinated or DIE and your kid will KILL MILLIONS of others – take away their immunity – with disease? SAY WHAT?
IF my child is NOT vaccinated and your child is Vaccinated and my child gets a disease then your child’s immunity WILL BE REMOVED and BOTH children (and everyone for miles around…) WILL ALL DIE!!!!!! Is that not a true statement that “the CDC” Believes and has FAITH in??? Sounds like a religion to me.
Oh and article VII of 1964 says that you cant even ask me what my religion is because you might be prejudiced against me!! (sections 201, 202 and 203 – since we like to quote the law here)
Look if you want to Immunize (vaccination is the religious ACT) that’s your choice but don’t say that my son has to be your savior or the devil for those already exist.
I’ll say it one more time, I WILL NOT offer my son on the ALTER of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for your Collective Salvation!
In NY State that is Statutory law 2164 section 9 which is a Higher law than Title 10 and therefore title 10 is null and void with the NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE!!!
Yashi,
then you dont have to be worry about being around my kids or anyone else that is not vaccinated. If your child is vaccinate and you are sure vaccination work there is no risk for your child.
It’s not about her kids its about kids that have autoimmune disorders or people with weakened immune systems due to cancer and the like. That’s who you’re hurting, not her kids
Am I to be their Satan or their Savior? Fact: Everyone will die, its just a matter of how and when. It’s not an if. We are perishable so we must look at the imperishable. Like the Spirit and the Soul. I hate to say it, but if you don’t have a Savior that can protect you from the second death, then I will pray for you and for others. My hope is not found in this world or anything that it holds. Yes, I morn when someone dies yet I rejoice if they know my Savior cause though they die, yet they shall live.
How can some injection in my arm as a devotion to a false religion save my soul? Look this world is filled with death, its our end game, to die and die well knowing what lays beyond is the point of life. I don’t live to die, I live life to the fullest knowing that in my death, having trusted and hoped in a savior that overcame the first death, that I too will live…again! It can be your hope too.
How sad to think that once someone’s dead that life is over? If that is the case then this life is pointless, meaningless and trivial. What good are we? Something created the Universe. The matter came from SOMETHING cause nothing from nothing is nothing but something and nothing is still something. Only those who fear the second death know the first death leads to life eternal.
Amen n Amen! Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of a saint ( truly born again believer in the forever living Son of God!). Amen!!!
vaccines increase the risk of chronic ill health…they can cause the very things you are stating…cancer, auto immune conditions…weakened immune system etc.
Measles is not a dangerous disease. This whole idea is ridiculous! My whole generation ,as well as my parents and grandparents and one of my children, all had Measles. Everyone I know over the age of 40 has had Measles and no one died, no one had any repercussions other than staying home from school and having a fever and rash. This disease along with all the other childhood diseases are really nothing to worry about. What to worry about is the lying propaganda that has been going on for decades and to the point that the younger generation is now clueless and has no idea about the truth of the matter. Please educate yourself or talk to an older person, like myself, who has been there and knows the truth.
Everyone you know over the age of 40 has had measles and no one has died? If they were dead, you wouldn’t know them, now would you? You state, “no one had any repercussions” – statistics are not based on your little circle of friends. About 35 children EACH YEAR died from the measles. That’s called repercussions.
“During 1971-75, an average of 35.4 measles-related deaths were recorded each year; one death for every 1,000 measles cases reported. Measles mortality rate was highest in children under 1 year of age, as was the death-to-case ratio.”
The CDC state that in recent years no one has died of the mumps but the VAERS website states that there have been 98 deaths and 700 disabilities from the MMR vaccine from 2005 to 2015. There are NO benefits to vaccines – only risks.
God didn’t create the vaccines man did! We are to treat our bodies like a temple and be cautious to what we put into our bodies upon everything we do! We are to stand on the trust of his word on healing because he gave us that authority! So is he in this world so am I!!! We don’t have to except sickness or claim it! To except it would be contradicting to why he was on the cross. That would say he died for nothing. We ether believe man or God and I choose God!!!! Vaccines are poison setting up for possible destruction!
Megan Heimer laid it out like the true boss she truly is!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to prepare this and to share this with others.
I need some more help! I used all the tips above and in other articles to write a very thorough letter, and they didn’t outright decline my form but sent the message below:
We have carefully reviewed your influenza vaccination declination request and consulted your religious leader. However, we have determined that you are still eligible for the vaccination. Please go to (office name), at one of the locations listed below, as soon as possible, but no later than 2 weeks from the date of this email — no appointment required. The (office name) team will review flu education and provide you with a vaccine. If you have additional questions or would still like to decline the vaccination, please contact the following Human Resources Offices to make an appointment….
This was obviously a mass email meant to scare people, but I didn’t provide a religious leader, so I know my application was merely marked “rejected.” So I called HR and they stated that I had to provide the legislation that would exempt me from providing a specific religious leader otherwise the committee aka “interrogation team” wouldn’t consider my declination form and I would be fired.
The original application form they forced us to fill out said, “This committee will contact your religious leader for clarification. Your signature on this form gives your consent for your religious leader to be contacted. Only individuals with membership In an organized religion with written tenets prohibiting invasive medical procedures such as vaccination will be considered for a religious exemption to influenza vaccination.”
“written tenets prohibiting medical procedures”? Is that even LEGAL? Not sure how to refute all this, so I’m asking your help, but I am NOT GETTING THE SHOT. And I’m not going down without a fight. I’m so disgusted that abortion is pro-choice but flu shots are not.
I live in New York.
This comment is late, but I hope it might still be helpful. We are currently working on a religious exemption from vaccination for our son who is in the Army. (Prayers for success are greatly appreciated ~ This will only be approved with God’s direct intervention.) The needing to belong to a specific religion, etc. part of the requirement is, in fact, an unconstitutional requirement. I don’t know how you would personally challenge that, but that requirement has been challenged elsewhere and proven unconstitutional (e.g. in the Navy: http://www.naturalnews.com/032184_vaccine_exemptions_Navy.html) The author of the mentioined article is an attorney who practices vaccine law. We have heard of him but haven’t personally used him. http://www.vaccinerights.com/ I hope this helps.
I personally challenged the “what is your religion” with this, Artice 7 (VII) of 1964 section 203, here it is…
SEC. 203. No person shall (a) withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (b) intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or (c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202.
They can not so much as HINT at removing your Religious rights by ESTABLISHING your RELIGION to use it AGAINST YOU…
That is ILLEGAL
I am late to it as well, The Civil Rights act of 1964 Title VII (7) section 201, 202 and 203 clearly state that no one can ask your religion so as to use it against you. That is a FEDERAL LAW and supersedes ANYTHING ELSE (Statutory Law)
The 1st amendment give you the “free exercise” and the government shall make “NO LAWS” restricting your free exercise there of.
Queen Elizabeth the First said, she wont be a “window into a man’s soul” and that is the basis for the 1st amendment.
They can not Judge your religion because they can’t ASK you for it. DON’T TELL THEM as they will twist it and say, oh well your pastor says you can be vaccinated hog wash.
The bible say we are a HOLY PRIEST HOOD, so your the pastor and appointed by God himself.
The form letters are what they do to you.
THIS is very important because this is how you SHOW YOUR SINCERE!!!! being Sincere is not being nice. Being sincere is showing that you have a HISTORY and by going over and over and over it again and fighting it tooth and nail, that is being SINCERE because your already personal.
I just wish I would have found this sooner. I live in NY State and have the religious exemption afforded to me by statutory law 2164 section 9 for my son to attend public school without being Immunized (vaccinated is the religious ACT in their religion). I will not offer myself or my son on the Alter of Vaccination to the false god of Immunization for their collective salvation (heard immunity)
Yashi
I live in NY too & my son is due for vaccines soon. How long does the process take to get the exemption? I don’t want him to miss any school. Thanks
I will lay this out one more time…
IF you can read this, getting an exemption is not one and done. It is a process.. Here is that process…
First and foremost, in New York State you can not simply say, I want an exemption and write the school a letter and receive an exemption.
What you do need to do is follow the law and do what it requires. You also can not object to any ingredients in the vaccines, such as Aborted Babies or Mercury or other heavy metals or preservatives.
Find the “law”. PEOPLE FIND YOUR LAWS. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. So the law in NEW YORK state is in Statutory law 2164 formally known as Public Health Law Title VI – Poliomyelitis and other Diseases section 2164.
Now this answers your question here … https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/undergrad/documents/2164.pdf
Read this document. Memorize this document. For anyone in NEW YORK STATE this is your law.
Section 7 a) tells you the amount of time needed to address the issue. It is in excess of 14 days. You have to IMMEDIATELY send the school a letter saying because of your strongly held, personal religious rights you will not be immunizingyour child and tell them that NO certificate shall be required as a prerequisite for your child to attend school.
Then Quote the law. 2164-9
And send the letter in. They will mail back a form letter quoting New York State TITLE 10 telling you that 2164 does not apply and or that you need to tell them the reason WHY it interferes with your religious beliefs. They will also ask for your religion and possibly a letter signed by a pastor or priest stating the facts that you say.
In other words, they will ESTABLISH your religion with YOUR own words to use them against you.
Dont fall prey to this. Trap them right there.. Once they have sent title 10 they have VIOLATED your rights and its TIME TO ATTACK!!! The armor of God leaves you NAKED from behind!!!! There is no armor to cover your back, only your front.
So attack you shall.
First Quote The LAW.. people always QUOTE the law please…The Law is on your side, not theirs.
Ok Title 10 is NOT the statutory law. Title 2164 is. That means that if Title 10 is challenged in the light of title 2164, 2164 ALWAYS WINS IN COURT Notwithstanding…oh them are great words…notwithstanding. If you look up title 10 there are notwithstanding clauses that refer to title 2164.
Now the title 10 is used to establish your religion, so quote the 1st amendment…Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. In your letter back to the school board in regards to title 10, are you trying to establish my religion because…quote the above.
OF COURSE they are deceiving you!! OF COURSE they want you to say your religion, that’s how they TRAP you!
But your smart, you read the law and know your rights. Quote the law at them again. 2161 says
This section shall not apply to children whose parent,parents, or guardian holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to the practices herein required,
and no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school.
Now say that you have complied with section 7 a) and notified “them” within the time period and that no certificate shall be required and NONE shall be given.
Now the next letter will be more forceful threating you with escalation of the issue to the board or to the courts.
THIS is what you want because your principal (the one writing the letter) has no authority to issue the exemption. SO your not even talking to the person with the power. they try and scare you first into backing down by quoting laws that are not even laws you have to abide by cause they think your stupid!!
So in the third letter, thank them for their time and the offer to refer you to a “higher authority”.
PULL OUT THE BIG GUNS and show them that they violated your Civil Rights of 1964 Title VII section 201,202 and 202, In the letter state that in section 202 it says that no one shall infringe upon your rights in a public place (the public school) because of your religion. No one shall coheres or attempt to coheres you to give up your religious rights. By asking for my religion so you may be prejudiced against me is a Violation of section 201 and your punishment is outlined in section 203.
IN other words, you just scared the crap out of them because they have NO IDEA what that is!!!. All the school is doing is complying with regular procedures because you invoked your rights under section 2164-9
NOTE: THIS LAW COVERS ALL STATES. ITS A FEDERAL LAW. IF YOUR STATE DOES NOT HAVE A RELIGIOUS CLAUSE TO GET OUT OF VACCINATIONS THEN THIS IS YOUR CLAWS.
NOW scare them some more – give them an explanation of why you want the exemption. Remember in NY state its only for a Sincerely Held, Personal Religious Belief. so what is being Sincere? It is showing that you have a history of fighting this. Like when my son was born I told the nurse to wipe the hep B vaccine off my sons face or id sue them.
That is being sincere. So have you refused to have your child get vaccinated? Add that to your letter. I had a nurse say to me that I was evil and my child will die without being IMMUNIZED. do not call it Vaccination. It is Immunized.
Once you have that established of a sincere and personal belief its time for the religion. IN this letter you will tell them WHAT a religion is. What Hope is, What a Belief is. Then add the link for the CDC. yes the CDC you will use against them.
The MOTTO for the CDC is 24/7 SAVING LIVES/PROTECTING PEOPLE. ( I have that memorized). Then in the letter pose the question to them, saving lives from what? protecting people from what? The ONLY answer is DEATH and DISEASE.
the CDC ALONE can save you from death by offering you LIFE! Life through IMMUNIZATION. People believe that without immunization you will die. People have HOPE in the vaccination that it will provide 100% IMMUNITY against whatever disease they are targeting.
Therefore, this meets the criteria of…a religion. Therefore they have broken the 1st amendment!!! Here is the kicker, they have established the RELIGION OF IMMUNIZATION.
Now in religious circles that is called, a False God. The god of their religion offers something, Immunity if you get vaccinated and then quickly tells you.. the immunity is not 100%. As a matter of a fact, it takes MULTIPLE DOSES to achieve 100% Vaccination but not 100% guaranteed Immunization!
Like the Flu shot lets say. There have been reports of people getting the flu shot but still catching the flu. Now they “believe” that you actually get the flu with not as bad symptoms – BUT YOU STILL GOT THE FLU. they misled you…they LIED to establish their religion!
So, you now say, I will not offer my children on the alter of Vaccination to the False god of Immunity for your collective salvation!
After all collective salvation is the end game here. Why else are they making you jump through hoops? so what is collective salvation? Heard Immunity. Never heard of it?
Well its prostalization – the act of bringing people into their religion and in NEW YORK it is sometimes does by force.
Heard Immunity is “the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.” So its not enough to let you be. They write laws Title 10 to force you into submission.
They say things like this, if your kid gets X disease that we have a vaccination for then your kid can spread that disease to the WHOLE school and KILL other peoples children.
So basically an unvaxed kid can give a virus to a vaxed kid and they can get sick even if they are 100% vaxed? My kid has the POWER to remove someone’s IMMUNITY!!!
Now my child becomes SATAN or Savior.
My religion tells me not to worship false gods.
End your letter like this, Thank them for their time and for granting your request for an Immunization Exemption for your child as afforded to you under NYS Statutory Law 2161-9.
Sign the sucker and wait for the approval letter.
Notice I NEVER ONCE told them I am a _________________ and belong to ____________________ church. ITs a trap that Satan himself has set.
IN closing, I will not offer my son on the alter of vaccination to the false god of Immunity for your collective salvation.
Signed, Crazy Religious Fanatic who knows the law and you violated my rights.
Thank you so very very much!!!!
Hi Megan,
You are a life saver! thanks for this great post.
I need your help please!
I live in NJ and I’m in the process of registering my son in a pre-school. I decided not to give my son anymore shots after I became informed about the harms of vaxxs.
Do I need to notarize my religious exemption letter?
Also do I need a signed letter from a doctor?
I’m confused on the laws of NJ, I’ve been researching online for 2 days; sometimes it says I only need a letter that contain the words “religion” and “against” on it but I read somewhere else that the laws have changed, therefore I need 2 letters one from me (the parent) which must be notarized and one from a doctor saying he/she counselled me on the pros and cons of the shots. Need your help please!
what do I exactly need to provide?
also if you can provide me with a sample of a religious exemption letter that I can edit out, it will be very helpful. Thanks Megan!
Hi Emily, http://www.nvic.org will have all of the information you need! Go to their state exemption section and select your state and it will walk you through it. 🙂 There are some great examples of religious letters online (though some states don’t even require that) but if you need some inspiration, be sure to check out this post! https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
Good luck friend. 🙂
Megan
My job rejected my waiver saying they need a religious leader to sign it and that my religion needs written tenets of that restriction.
Tell them, NO such letter will be forth coming. Quote from 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII 1964 Section 201,202 and 203 and highlight that the law bars them from asking for your religion, which they clearly JUST violated because they ASKED for it to discriminate against you! Section 203 lays out the punishment, jail, and that you will forgive them the trespass this time. Furthermore, now you thank them for GRANTING you the Immunization Exemption as AFFORDED to you UNDER the LAW.
(its NOT vaccination, that’s the ACT of being IMMUNIZED) Demand now in STRONG language for your Immunization Exemption. Directly IMPLY they knowingly broke the LAW. (odds are they they dont know what the laws is. Sad but true, but use forceful language to imply YOU DO) The kicker is, they will most likely threaten to escalate the ordeal, (check if your sincere) Fight it. Tell them thank you for their time and please refer me to (the people they threaten you with) who can grant your request.
This is what happened to me when I applied in NY STATE for the exemption for my son to go to school. They threatened me with, the board!! SO I said to the Principal, thanks for you time and please put me in contact with those in authority that can GRANT my request under the Statutory Law 2164-9.
Apparently my request went to the School Board’s LAWYERS office!! They checked the law cause the board did not know it. They are just local people trying to comply with NY STATE TITLE 10 (not a statutory law) so when I said, no to their request to tell them my religion I quoted Queen Elizabeth the first as relating to the 1st amendment and then the FEDERAL Civil Rights Act of 1964!!!! (they VIOLATED my rights and I could SUE THEM!!!) and then I demanded my full rights under “The Law” having told them that they BROKE the law asking for my Religion to PUNISH into Sinning!! The fight was over, I received a very vague, one line letter saying that my request was granted. THEY did not quote 2164-9 in the letter.
Please note that once I got this letter, I evoked ALL NOTWITHSTANDING clauses in TITLE 10 in a written letter to the Board and Principal. Thus no Dr or Nurse can look at or order medical anything without CONTACTING me first.. HOWEVER, the school brought in an Optometrist and checked my child’s eyes WITHOUT my consent (as ordered by NY STATE to do under TITLE 10). This was met with a very quick short note demanding an apology from the school for a violation. This I called strike one. If my rights are violated 3 times I will press the matter. Everyone’s entitled to make a mistake or two and it was an eye exam…
Emily I just exempt my daughter of the flu shot because of my religious beliefs. I had already done the vaccines required before I found out how toxic they were. Anyway my daycare asked me for a letter from my pediatrician stating that my daughter is not going to et the flu vaccine due to our religious belief and of course they also want the letter explaining your religious beliefs. I wrote the letter following Megan’s outline my Dr read it and approved it. They can’t challenge your religious beliefs. I guess they could but they shouldn’t. Good luck
Hi Emily,
I was researching to find ways to escape compulsory flu shot for my girls .We are also in NJ.please provide me tips on how u managed to get through ,as frm wht I have heard it’s tough to get exemption in NJ.my girls will join school in March.
Meenu Agarwal,
Below is the law…for your state allowing for an exemption. (DO NOT EVER TELL THEM YOUR RELIGION!!! Dont say Catholic or Methodist or CRAZY LADY SOCIETY of America) QUOTE ONLY THE LAW !!!! (they can’t fight the law and you want the STATUTORY LAW not some wacky thing saying you MUST tell your religion. If they say we need your Pastor’s letter or Priests letter – tell them NOTHING Quote the LAW. The Civil Rights act of 1964 says you don’t need to tell them ANYTHING or they can be thrown in JAIL!!!) – take that to the food bank!
Here is what you want…
26:1A-9.1. Exemption for pupils from mandatory immunization; interference with religious rights; suspension
Provisions in the State Sanitary Code in implementation of this act shall provide for exemption for pupils from mandatory immunization if the parent or guardian of the pupil objects thereto in a written statement signed by the parent or guardian upon the ground that the proposed immunization interferes with the free exercise of the pupil’s religious rights. This exemption may be suspended by the State Commissioner of Health during the existence of an emergency as determined by the State Commissioner of Health.
What you do is you say something like this,
To whom it may concern.
I am invoking my rights under Statutory Law (Memorize it!) 26:1A-9.1 and the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the USA for the pursuit of happiness in regards to Immunization (don’t say Vaccination cause that’s an act of doing something). The Law clearly states that the government shall MAKE NO LAWS Regarding my religion and furthermore Title VII 1964 section 201, 202 and 203 state that you can not ask me what my religion is for fear that it may prejudice you against me for the purpose of discrimination against my religion.
The purpose of this letter is to show that I have a sincere, personally held Religious Belief not Immunize my children.
The Moto of the CDC is 24/7 protecting people/savings lives. The CDC believes that it has the power to save my life and my families lives, and the very lives of every American against death and disease.
This is against my religion.
My Religion teaches me not to have any other god’s before the one I am free to worship.
Therefore, I say this to the false god of Immunity, that I will not offer my children on the alter of immunization to the false god of Immunity for your collective salvation.
Collective salvation is to my religion what Heard Immunity is to the secular world. Heard immunity is defined as the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.
Therefore it is a strongly held “religious belief” that without being proselytized into the religion of Immunization that my children will bring Death and Disease to the Nation because they have not undergone the sacred act of Immunization!
More over, that because my children are not Immunized they will REMOVE the immunity of other children unless they BOW to the false god of Immunity – everyone willl DIE!!!!!
Is this not the argument? That my children will infect vaccinated children who have immunity through their false god and bring death upon those who are immunized – or to small to be immunized?
My children then become Satan Incarnate!!!
I say no.
Thank you in advance for respecting my strongly held Personal Religious beliefs and issuing me what is mine under the law, an exemption according to Title 26 – HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS
Section 26:1A-9.1
Once again I say, I will not offer my children on the Alter of Vaccination to the false god of Immunity for your Collective Salvation.
Sincerly,
Don’t Mess With Me Law Quoting Mother…or your in for a legal battle….
Hi. Not sure how I came across this blog. Here’s my question. I live in NJ. My child is in preschool. I did obtain a religious exemption without any problem, just used words
“religion” and “against” in my letter. If I decide to give my child one vaccine, the exemption is void. NJ does allow you to identify specific vaccines that are against your religion. Can I just write a new letter saying that all the other ones are against my religion. I really like my school and don’t want them to have headaches either with a child out of compliance now. Also, want my child to stay in this school.
Thank you soooo much! I have to hand in an exemption tomorrow or be let go. I got advice from a lawyer that my religious statement should be concise, and NOT include scientific/philosophical/personal/medical reasons for wanting to stay away from the flu vaccine. In my job’s flu portal (I work for a private NY health system), they kept finding roundabout ways to state that there were no harmful substances. I love this entire argument but I’m wondering how I can prove the validity of this statement: “Vaccines contain neurotoxins, hazardous substances, attenuated viruses, animal parts, foreign DNA, albumin from human blood, carcinogens, and chemical wastes that are proven harmful to the human body.” I feel like they’ll just find another way to say it’s not harmful or that there are no chemical wastes. They are distributing Fluarix Quadrivalent. Do you have any proof (biblical or otherwise) on which this point cannot be fought? I’m willing to quit before taking the shot, but I want to fight well before I quit. I know that the first punch is the most important but also the most treacherous because I can unintentionally undermine my own rights. If you have time, I would love to send my letter to you as well.
Hi Elizabeth,
All of my posts are hyperlinked to the sources and I have written MANY posts on this subject. I agree with your lawyer’s advice to keep it on point. Here’s the reference you are looking for as it pertains to ingredients: http://www.cdc.gov/VACCINEs/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf
Although I have gone into detail in other posts on the ingredients, I think getting into an argument about them beyond just listing the source, will put you in the category of a philosophical exemption. If you want those posts though, simple type “vaccines” into the search bar at the top of my site and my posts will come up. 🙂
For my religious argument: https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
Good luck!
ok thanks!! I used every single post but afraid it became too philosophical. I had a lawyer look it over and he verified it was fine. Thanks again!!!
I am so happy to have found this post. I live in Florida and have been kicked out of our previous pediatric practice for not vaccinating according to their schedule. Please help! I am so confused. I read that I get the religious exemption form from the health department, but who is supposed to sign it….the health dept or the pediatrician? Also, do I need to write a letter and who do I present it to…health dept, pediatrician, school? My child is about to be kicked out of school without this. So frustrating!
Hi Lauren,
Sounds frustrating! First, I would establish with a family practice/primary care doctor (instead of a Pediatrician). For specific info. on Florida’s vaccine exemptions, check out NVIC.org or VacLib. http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/florida.aspx
Hope this helps!
Do you know of a clear statement that says I don’t have to use the form provided by the health department, but can just object in writing on religious grounds? I’m in Florida as well.
You are seriously AMAZING! I like your deliverance style of very relevant information. I cannot believe I haven’t came across your blog before. Thanks.
Thanks Kristen. I’m glad you like it. 😉
A question for myself: Are private schools required to accept your religious exemption? Our local private school rejected our exemption not its merits but based on the fact that “we are private and therefore do not have to accept it”. We spoke to an attorney who said that this was not correct because the exemption is federal and the requirement is state. Federal law trumps state law so the exemption has more weight (according to him). They were so nasty after we presented them with our exemption that we no longer wanted to send our child there so the question was never answered for me. I have scoured the state website and looked for any language exempting private schools but I didn’t find any. I also called the health department and she recited like a parrot “private schools don’t have to accept religious exemptions”. I asked her what law states that, or where was that in writing? She did not have an answer and when I told her what the attorney said she replied, “I have never heard that but I am willing to look at anything he has written.” So it seems that no one even knows! And she was the person “in charge” of answering exemption questions at the state. I don’t know if you are attorney but you seem knowledgable so I’m asking – Do private schools have to accept my religious exemption? We are applying to other schools soon. We are in Illinois.
This thread is old but I wanted to chime in for parents looking for open minded/educated doctors. Contact your local midwives and they will be able to direct you to the doctors who understand parental rights.
Megan, you are my personal SUPER HERO! I’m going to leave ‘space’ for other folks to thank you for the INVALUABLE service you’ve provided to so many desperate people with this post, ALL its content, verse quotes & black and white rationale. YOU’RE A TOTAL BOSS! I will be subscribing to your site because of this one post — and I will be sharing, sharing, SHARING it!!!! God bless you and thank you for the gift you’ve passed along to all who read here; you’ve saved us years of research (I know, I’ve been doing the leg-work!!)
LOL. Thanks Joanna! I’m glad you you liked it. 🙂
Thank you for this! I’m not naturally good at standing up to anyone. You are so brave for leaving the comments open for this article. There is so much push back against not vaxxing your child even among church goers who biblically can not make a case against another parent who chooses not to vaxx. I’ve personally experienced this when friends from church have told me they don’t want my children around theirs. I don’t believe that God made my children deficient or dirty until being baptized with vaccines. It makes me sad but it doesn’t make me waver on my anti-vaccine stance and and my commitment to God. I’m thankful to have informed people like you leading the way.
Thanks for all the information!!
My son got severe allergies after taking a Medication for the first time at the age of 22 months. and now we are staying clear of these toxins.
Does anyone know what the laws of New York are. Will a Religious exemption form suffice? or do i need signed papers and code numbers?
Thank you!!! I am loving your posts! Very informative and helpful!! I have always used religious exemption for myself and I haven’t had any issues. However, it’s getting harder these days and I will need his information sometime for my daughter. I’m amazed with all the details you have for us in this article. Questions I never thought about that could be asked. Thanks for your hard work!!
Raquel,
Make sure u create a birth plan and give a copy to ur doctor and the hospital. No need to worry about the circumcision. Religious people circumcise their sons. Also be sure to find a family doctor that practices family medicine.
We circumsisoned our boys, but not till the 8th day. it worked out great & my 2nd & 3rd son did sooo much better that our 1st. Yes, they will make an appt for you, if you ask.
This is perfect, thank you so much. I hope I never have to use it but it seems that with the upcoming election I might. Do you forsee religious exemptions for school being removed across the country? That’s one of my biggest fears. I’d have to quit my job and homeschool.
I see them being removed in the states where people aren’t fighting for them. California, West Virginia, and Mississippi have already removed them. 🙁
Hi Megan,
Just wanted to thank you for such a great post. I am an RN in Idaho and my hospital forces mandatory flu vaccines with only medical and religious exemptions. Anyway I used your post as a guide and I was able to get a religious exemption approved. It was such a relief. I just moved here and my previous hospital just required you to fill out a form checking a box so this is the first time I’ve had to explain myself. I do have to wear a mask the entire flu season in patient care areas (which I feel is ridiculous), but I’d rather wear a mask then inject myself with garbage. Thanks again!
Thank you so much!! Because of you, my religious exemption was approved and my son can still attend school (he just started Kindergarten :). It worked in NY!
WOW! That’s great Bethany. 😀
I live in NY and I plan to go this route! Did you have any trouble? Private or public school ? I am so nervous! Also where do you submit it, To the actual school or the state?
Hi,
My name is Dan and Thank You so Much for the positive and factual based encouragement. This should work in California, right? The constitution protects our religious beliefs If I am not mistaken. Should the letter be notarized? Also I was reading that some of these people are taking the letter to the doctor You wouldn’t just file with the school?
Our child is due this December and I was thinking of just doing a delayed vaccine schedule but now I am freaking out and don’t want any. We plan to have him circumcised which I feel like will be questioned and thrown in our faces if we try to use religious exemption as Christians. Not really sure what to do on this…We live in Virginia too so I don’t know if anyone has had any issues in our commonwealth or not but please share if you can.
I suggest you read up on circumcision and pass on that as well 💜
We did not vaccinate after our daughter’s 1st set where we almost lost her…..so no more shots & our 3 boys have had none! but we did have circumsisions on the 8th day and it was no problem.
Virginia is the easiest to have a religious exemption against vaccines. They only require a notorized form!
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uploads/sites/11/2016/04/cre_1.pdf
Great great great post btw! My cousin is having to fight for her rights in NY now after moving from VA.
Thank you so much for putting this together ! I’m traveling out of the country with my two kids, do I need one of these for them to travel ? Thanks in advance!
Megan you rock!! So far I am not having an problems with my religious exemption letter and I have an awesome family doctor who gladly respects our family decision!! I hope a lot of parents read this blog and get the courage and information they need to stand up for what they believe in.
P.S. you had me cracking up!! Thx!
Haha. Thanks Deb.
Awesome! I was so worried and had so many questions until I find this article. I hope one day the law is gonna change…
Deb…just curious which state you live in…that is not causing a problem with your religious exemption. Thank you!
I live in illinois!
Hi Amy, I live in Illinois!
hi, i just moved to illinois from missouri and here they require vaccinations at the 9th grade level. the school will not accept my missouri religious vaccination card and the state requires a religious vaccinations exemption form be signed by a doctor. the only problem is, i am having a very hard time finding a doctor that will sign the form. most of the doctors offices that i call flat out say that they dont accept patients that dont vaccinate. what should i do? my daughter has been excluded for school for 2 weeks now due to this and im afraid of what might happen. do you know of any good doctors that i could go to?
Hi Yvonne, the religious exemption card for Missouri does not need to be signed by a doctor to my knowledge and the public school must accept the exemption. I would take the card in again with the law showing them that you’re entitled to this exemption. NVIC.org has specific information for Missouri. Bests, Megan
I’m confused why only Christians can claim a religious exemption. My kids are grown, but otherwise I would want to fight that. I can have a deeply held religious belief as a Buddhist to not vaccinate that should be as respected as any other religion. Right? Or a Pagan. Or a Hindu. Where does the law say we must quote Judeo-Christian scripture to qualify?
You don’t have to be a Christian to claim a religious exemption. I am though, so I can’t speak for what it would take for others with differing religious beliefs to obtain one successfully.
Megan I think depending on your belief, you need to find in The Bible or what other religious your practice, you need to search where similar verses would be that prohibit you inject the child with garbage.
I see. Thank you!
Hi Meghan so am I in this situation where I need one of those exemption letters for the state of New York. If you you could please contact me with the information that would be great thanks in advance.
Check out nvic.org. They have exemption information for every state!
Thank you
Long story short, I can not find a pediatrician in my area that will sign the form required by my state to keep my child in public school. This is the form: http://www.isbe.net/research/pdfs/immun-exam-gdlns-religious-exempt.pdf
How on earth are we supposed to exercise our rights, given by the state, if the doctors are allowed to discriminate against those who don’t vaccinate based on religious beliefs by not signing the required form??
If I don’t get this form signed by an MD by Oct. 14th I have to withdrawal my child from school. Help!
It is wrong what they are doing. I would recommend a family practice doctor. They can work with your entire family and can sign the exemption as well.
P.S – If you still can’t get a physician to sign I would definitely take this all the way up the ladder.
Respectfully,
Megan
Look for a doctor that practices integrative medicine in your area. Most pediatricians are getting kick backs if a certain percentage of children in their practice are completely vaccinated by age 2. The monetary amount is significant. That’s why some even kick you out of their practice if you don’t vaccinate.
I live in Indiana, we don’t need a physician to sign for a religious exemption, only a medical one. We can simply state the law with the appropriate code attached as our exemption.
Best of Luck!
Cher
Cher I am also in Indiana. Would you kindly share the law with the appropriate code I would need? I would so appreciate it.
Find a doctor that practice family medicine and/or acupuncture.
Thank you so much! I detest that the schools are now asking for specific religeous reasoning along with a signed letter from your pediatrician stating they bullied you as much as possible to vaccinate. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep chemicals out of our children’s bodies! This article is a life saver 😊
Hi, I’m a Dutch reform Protestant looking to get a vaccine exemption for my daughter. Specifically, the exemption I need is for the menningoccal vaccine. What evidence may I use to make my case? She has had her other vaccines, as I do believe in those
Hi I need help. I don’t want to vaccinate my 7 week old and I’ve managed to hold off on all vaccines. I need to take her to her one month check up and I need to know if I have to bring any forms or letters with me. I have been vaccinating my 18 month old up until this point and I do not want to continue any more shots. I know that the pediatrician will not be happy and will try to coerce me so I need ammo to come back with. My concern is that I have Medicaid and I do not want to lose that in case of emergency room visits. I live in Ohio. If anyone has any advice/ encouragement would be appreciated. I am battling against my family and my husband to see the light and the facts so I don’t have much support.
We just returned from the doctor’s office where our religious exemption card was pretty much thrown to the way-side in lieu of “health system policy.” We had an alternative vaccination schedule and a religious exemption form for the vaccines we are totally against! Our ped looked at that and looked us in the eye and said it was the policy of their health system that all children be vaccinated for Hepatitus B. She then took our alternative schedule and LIED to us in order to create her own version of the schedule. She went on to take our ONE vaccine we were okay with having today (provided we could be assured that thimerosal was not one of the ingredients), which was the Dtap vaccine, and deceived us by telling us that they give pediarix at 2, 4, and 6 months for Dtap. She said it also covered Hep B (which is the vaccine they REQUIRE all patients to have). That was it. She then said that they usually get Rotavirus vaccine at 2 months as well. (My 4 year old had the vaccine and we STILL ended up quarantined in the hospital for four days with Rotavirus!) I wasn’t for this vaccine as well. Now, let me pause here to say that I am not SUPER educated on this vaccine debate. I knew just enough to know that I was not okay with my baby being shot up with 48 doses of vaccines in the first 2 years of life! So I went in probably a little ill-prepared, yes. However, when they handed us the required papers for the vaccines that we were BULLIED into giving our 2 month old, despite our religious exemption and alternative schedule request, my husband began reading over it. As he gets to the part of the Pediarix packet that says it’s actually FIVE vaccines in one, we hear our poor baby screaming from the stick. Too late. She NEVER once mentioned that Pediarix also contained polio, which we want our baby to be vaccinated for, but when we are ready. So now, we have been lied to, bullied, and pretty much told our religious exemption meant NOTHING and our two month old currently sits inconsolable in his bouncy seat. We now must play the waiting game (for up to about 6-8 weeks according to the adverse effects during clinical trials of Pediarix, which, of course, were found not to be linked to the actual vaccine) to make sure our child doesn’t develop a seizure disorder, neuroblastoma, or other horrible ailment/disease/disorder from this vaccine. I feel like I can’t even take my child to the doctor’s office anymore! If it weren’t for your website and the article on the lady who had difficulty obtaining a religious exemption form from the health department in Missouri (where we reside), I would have been even LESS prepared than I was and my poor baby probably would have ended up with all 8 vaccines he was “scheduled” to be given by the trusty CDC. Thank you for educated those who are vaccine conscious!!!
Don’t take your child to the doctor if you feel in your gut that it’s wrong. YOU are the parent, that doctors works for YOU. Which in turn means that YOU get the final say. It’s hard but you need to be strong for your child, stand up to their bullying the same way you’ll want your child to stand up to bullies in the schoolyard. <3 You are strong, you can do this. Keep reading and researching!! Next time they want to give a vaccine that you haven't had a chance to research fully tell them no until you are fully informed and ask for a VACCINE INSERT. Not the little printout they offer, the actual insert from in the box.
So I have to write a letter explaining why I do not want my child vaccinated in Missouri?
Nope. You just have to fill out the card!
I am now researching this again for my almost 20 year old who has used waivers for 3 schools and one college and now is transferring to a public university in Georgia which says to attach verification by religious leader to the immunization form where you are checking the religious exemption option and no other Georgia college says that, that I can find.
What should I do? Send a letter and not deal with that form at all? I actually have never done anything with the actually immunization forms and have just turned in the letter before but when researching this one, I saw on the vaclib website some of the Georgia school pages and they had the option to check on an exemption on their forms so I checked my daughter’s new school and found the option there, too but then the “attach verification by religious leader” statement.
I have a 24 year old also who has made it through school in Louisiana first then Georgia and college in NY with no vaccinations. I don’t want me 20 year old daughter to have to have them now or to have to pick a different school. AGH!
Sarah, check out Christian Health Fellowship. They issue letters and a certificate stating your religious conviction, and you are officially part of their Fellowship… So they are a ‘religious leader’…. Which I think is a bogus requirement, but maybe it’ll make things easier for you.
There is more shit in vaccins then there are positive things inside them. So it would be smart to avoid the vaccins. Get your immune system strong and healthy. Thats a better way to stay well.
I don’t think any of us want to have to defend ourselves regarding the religious waiver. However, it appears that these employees are not being trained properly. We have separation of church and state, which means you are not allowed to question anyone’s religion. The school employees need the proper training, which appears to be lacking in some districts, especially in NY. Remember, vaccine laws are STATE laws, not city or district laws. I think the main reason for the lack of training is that some districts are just getting used to the dramatic increase in parents opting out of vaccination.
I’m real confused as why so many say it’s so hard to get a religious exemption. I’ve honestly found the simple approach is the best. Just be upfront and honest. Of course the various departments you deal with are going to question the validity of your applications, it’s their job to make sure what you claim is legit. But I’ve found so many of my Christian sisters just be getting their panties in a twist every time someone questions them. Or they just want to get up in someone’s face because the government doesn’t fear god and make all the rules to suit the way of the church. Anyone notice we ain’t the majority in this country? If I were an employee at one of these departments and had to deal with that every time a person applied for a religious exemption, then I’d be rollin my eyes at the crazy church lady too.
Refreshing myself on this today because I’m taking my unvaxed 6 Mt old to an appt, with all my other three kiddos, today. If I’m harassed I want to be ready. Thanks!
I have doubts as to whether or not you will allow this comment through moderation, but I can’t let this go by. You need to hear this, whether you like it or not.
With respect but without hesitation, the way you are using Scripture passages to support your argument in this and other posts is simply wrong. You are practicing eisegesis (reading your conclusions into the text) instead of exegesis (drawing your conclusions from the text). Any and all of the professors I learned from in the pursuit of my theology degree would have smacked me upside the head for doing this, and rightly so.
Like it or not, the Bible simply does not contain any commands either positive or negative regarding vaccination (or, by extension, the use of antibiotics, pain relievers, etc.) Cobbling together various bits the way you do in this post and others is a mishandling of the texts. It is a disservice to your readers. Be against vaccination if you will, but don’t pretend that the “clearly” Bible backs your stance.
You have a large audience. You will be held accountable for how you use the word of God. Remember that.
Hi Marie, Thanks for the comment. You make assertions but you have nothing to support them. Although the Bible does not reference vaccinations specifically (as it does not specifically reference many issues of our modern day we are called to take a stance on), it contains the answers to every question/dilemma we may face in this life. Although the subject of vaccines is not a salvation issue, I think utilizing the principles laid our in scripture can help us arrive at an appropriate conclusion as their are many parents who seek God’s wisdom on this matter. I am aware that I have a large audience and each post is prayed over as it is written and published.
Best regards, Megan
Thank you for allowing my comment through. I know that it’s not always easy to interact with those who disagree.
Again, with respect, I have read several posts here and I’ve seen others – far smarter than I – raise the same objection in regards to how you use Scripture to support your stance. You say I have nothing to back up my assertion that you are engaging in eisesgesis and that there are no commands about vaccination or medical treatment in the Bible, which seems to be your response to all who raise this issue. Thus it makes little sense to go back and forth. I have no doubt that lengthy arguments have been presented to you before. If you reject them, that is your right.
It seems to me that you are unwilling to listen to the wisdom of fellow believers. If this objection is raised on multiple occasions, perhaps it is not because those who disagree with you are without understanding.
You have the freedom to believe what you will about vaccinations, medicine and whatever else. I support you in that, much as we disagree on these things. And I don’t at all question your salvation or sincerity. I simply do not think that you are using the Bible properly. Scripture is precious. It is the very word of God. We must allow Him to shape us through it instead of attempting to shape it (and Him) to suit us.
On an unrelated note, and you don’t have to publish this part (or any of this if you so choose), I’m sorry to know that there’s been upheaval in your life. I pray that God graces you with extra measures of comfort. He is there in the midst of the storm.
Marie, You will see comments both supporting my position and dissenting. You will also see thousands of shares on all of the posts I have written on the biblical implications of vaccinating – I would venture to guess, because it resonates with most of my fellow believers. I’ve laid out a biblical premise and I supported it with scripture. I’ve also responded to the counter-arguments with respect. I too believe it is very important that we use the Bible properly and give it it’s proper authority in our lives.
Much of this post was based off of the 3 preceding posts: https://www.livingwhole.org/god-does-not-support-vaccines/
With much respect,
Megan
Marie, thank you for your comments. I don’t to debate the vaccine or biblical philosophy of you or Megan on this occasion. I just wanted to say the way you write was both thoughtful and respectful. I think we all could take a little lesson from your example when talking to people we disagree with. I’ve been saying for a looonnnng time that the world has simply lost the ability to respectfully disagree. The wide gate and broad road is to hate opponents and also label them as hateful towards me. But you have shown that not all are like that. Thank you girl!
I agree wholeheartedly! I was not for vaccines to begin with, so I appreciate the obviously thorough job you have done researching this subject. Anything that uses abortion as a source of DNA/cells/other material is obviously not pro-life, and therefore I want to stay as far away from it as possible. I had no idea aborted baby DNA, among other ingredients, were used in these vaccines. Thank you for providing reliable resources so I can talk to my ob gyn/future pediatrician with knowledge and factual research! I really appreciate it more than I can say!
You are awesome!