Sister Dede Byrne Sues Washington Over COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

[Michie]

Religious freedom is protected under the law regardless of the popularity of the belief that is infringed.


It looks like we are entering a new phase in the battle against the coronavirus. Mask mandates in schools are being lifted. Cases of hospitalizations are dropping, as are the number of deaths associated with COVID.

Yet something sinister lingers.

Zealous government officials have used their public-health authority to impose vaccine mandates that gravely undermined religious freedom. Take, for example, news that Sister Dede Byrne, an Army surgeon who served in Afghanistan and dedicates her time now to caring for the indigent and undocumented in our nation’s capital, was denied her request for a religious exemption from the District of Columbia’s vaccine mandate for health care workers.

I’m afraid we will be feeling the long-term effects on religious liberty from government overreach for years to come — unless the Supreme Court agrees to review a case involving health care workers in New York.

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Sister Dede Byrne Sues Washington Over COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

 

[Michie]

After she sued Washington, D.C., reprieve was granted but it doesn’t resolve all of the issues raised in her lawsuit.

Sister Dede’s Medical License Restored, After Temporary Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers