A former scout for the Washington Nationals is suing the Major League Baseball (MLB) team in federal court for firing him in August 2021 when he refused on religious grounds to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Bernard “Benny” Gallo of Carlsbad, California, has said that his constitutional rights were violated by the team and that the vaccination requirement, which didn’t apply to athletes, was discriminatory.
The lawsuit comes after New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, was sued earlier this month by an MLB sports venue worker over his city’s inconsistent enforcement of its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, which compels all employees at private businesses to get a COVID-19 vaccine, as The Epoch Times reported. Adams’s predecessor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, exempted visiting athletes and artists, but in March, Adams extended the exemption to local athletes and artists.
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