Liberty Counsel contradicts the conclusions of legal experts, who say religious exemption letters won’t hold up. The organization provides sample language for faith leaders and Christians to consider as they draft these documents. A pastor, it suggests, can write that someone “strongly believes that based on the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, to inject these COVID shots would violate these sincerely held religious beliefs and would be a sin against God.” The sample continues, “To violate conscience by doing an act contrary to these sincerely held religious beliefs is itself sinful.”
Other information on the Liberty Counsel site emphasizes a Christian’s “liberty of conscience” (based on 1 Corinthians 8) and claims that people who’ve recovered from COVID now have “natural immunity, and a reliance upon God’s protection consistent with Psalm 91.”
On Twitter yesterday, Liberty Counsel asked its “lawyer friends” for assistance: “We need your help to send demand letters on behalf of employees and students who are being told they will be FIRED from their jobs or EXPELLED from college if they do not receive the COVID shots.”
Last week, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied an emergency request from some students at Indiana University who opposed the school’s COVID vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
