Guardsmen denied religious exemptions to the Coast Guard’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are suing the force, alleging the denials violate federal law.
Three Guard personnel who are Christians are leading the class-action complaint against the force, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and the Department of Homeland Security after their religious exemption requests were denied even though chaplains said each plaintiff held sincere religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
The three do not want to get vaccinated because they oppose how aborted fetal cells were used in developing or testing the vaccines.
All three received final denial letters that were “virtually identical aside from name changes and dates,” according to the new lawsuit, filed in U.S. court in Fort Worth, Texas….