Fourteen employees of NorthShore University HealthSystem filed a lawsuit against the Illinois-based health care provider, arguing that the facility wouldn’t allow them to keep their jobs due to religious objections to COVID-19 vaccines. Liberty Counsel, which is representing the 14 health care workers, said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times on Monday that it filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The “plaintiffs have shared these religious beliefs, and others, with NorthShore, and have asked NorthShore for exemption and reasonable accommodation for these beliefs, but NorthShore has unlawfully and callously refused,” the complaint (pdf) said. The lawsuit is urging the district court to grant a temporary injunction against the mandate before Oct. 31, a day before the deadline NorthShore set to remove the plaintiffs and other employees with objections. “As of last Friday,” said Liberty Counsel’s statement, “NorthShore had already started purging …