Religious Exemption Archives - Universal Life Church Monastery Blog
December 2nd, 2022
Should Muslim and Jewish firefighters be forced to keep their faces clean, even though their faith requires they wear beards? A group of firefighters is suing over a policy they say violated their freedom of religion.
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August 11th, 2021
For the first time, the U.S. Army will allow a Christian soldier to keep a beard as part of his faith. Similar exceptions have been made in the past for Sikhs and Muslims, but some say everyone should follow the rules.
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February 21st, 2020
An evangelical postal worker is suing USPS after he was fired, citing religious persecution. He claims that he should be able to take every Sunday off as a holy day of rest, despite USPS's no-exceptions Sunday policy.
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July 4th, 2019
After her take-down of Joe Biden's civil rights record, Kamala Harris is having her own record criticized. Sikh activists are demanding Harris apologize for her defense of a beard ban for guards at California prisons.
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May 7th, 2019
An unnamed bearded soldier from the 795th Military Police Battalion has apparently been granted the right to preserve his facial hair as a form of worship to Thor, the red-bearded, hammer-wielding Norse god known to travel in a chariot drawn by two massive goats.
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March 28th, 2019
In the wake of a severe chickenpox outbreak in Kentucky, a Catholic high school student was barred from playing on the school basketball team when officials discovered he was not vaccinated against the disease.
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March 4th, 2019
Health officials are worried the religious exemption for vaccination is causing outbreaks of deadly diseases nationwide. Now lawmakers are fighting to remove that exemption before more people get sick.
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September 30th, 2016
According to a recent study by the American Academy of Pediatricians, more parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids than ever before. One anti-vaccine mom got a rude awakening recently.
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September 21st, 2015
A mother in New York has won her appeal to not vaccinate her child with the MMR vaccine for religious reasons. Her son will be exempt from the vaccination and will be able to attend school without receiving the vaccine.
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