Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turned away an emergency application Nov. 10 to halt New York City’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate that applies to firefighters, police officers, and other government employees.
The workers were fired after the city refused their request to be exempted on religious grounds. Many people who object to the various COVID-19 vaccines for religious reasons do so because aborted human fetal cell lines were involved in their testing, development, or production.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a public interest law firm specializing in religious freedom cases, argued in the application filed Nov. 2 that it was unfair that unvaccinated adult entertainers and athletes were exempted from the mandate while other unvaccinated workers were forced into compliance, and were fired if they refused the jab….