Let’s hope this preliminary injunction holds up for the Special Warfare Personnel [Court Ruling HERE]
(Via AP) – The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas today issued a preliminary injunction, stopping the Department of Defense from punishing military service members who have religious objections to the vaccine mandate. First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit and motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of dozens of U.S. Navy SEALs and other Naval Special Warfare personnel against the Biden Administration and the Department of Defense for their refusal to grant religious accommodations to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America’s values,” said Mike Berry, General Counsel for First Liberty Institute. “Punishing SEALs for simply asking for a religious accommodation is purely vindictive and punitive. We’re pleased that the court has acted to protect our brave warriors before more damage is done to our national security.”
In his order, Judge Reed O’Connor said, “The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.”
The SEALs, who presently serve at various classified and confidential locations, collectively have more than 350 years of military service, and more than 100 combat deployments. When they inquired about seeking religious accommodation for the vaccine, the Navy informed many of the plaintiffs that they could face court-martial or involuntary separation if they don’t receive the vaccine.
Each of their religious accommodation denials appear to be identical, suggesting the Navy is not taking their requests seriously. The Navy also warned some of the plaintiffs that if they sought a religious exemption, the Navy would confiscate their Special Warfare devices—such as the famous SEAL “Trident”—that they proudly wear on their uniforms. (link)
Good to hear – God bless our Seals!
Praise the Lord!
Don’t celebrate YET. Its just a preliminary STAY, and over 3000 active duty Marines were similarly mass denied religious exemptions.
The wheels of Justice grind slowly, and caprisciously, and as Gen. Flynns case demonstrated, with lawfare, it ain’t over even AFTER the fat lady walks off the stage and goes home.
Its NEVER over.
If it eventually gets to SCOTUS, Roberts will say “its NOT a Vax, its a TAX!”
and rule it Constitutional.
Or he will say the SEALs and Marines have no standing. I believe that is the current excuse for abrogating out constitutional rights.
technically you surrender many of your rights when you are inducted into the military…we used to say we PROTECT the rights of the US Constitution but are not protected BY it
Technically you are incorrect. A service member is still protected by the Constitution and Federal Law.
pretty soon a gag order will be placed on all involved…and the cases will take forever while military is decimated.
Roberts is a national disgrace coupled with the Heritage Foundation that advocated for the other nitwits recently put on the bench.
NAILED IT yet again.
Well, let’s look on the bright side, if the gubmint forces the SEALS out of the military, then they can’t use them on We the People.
Argue “arbitrary and capricious”. Get that into the legal fray post haste.
It does seem a shame to have to bring religion into this, when it boils down to a matter of personal choice and common sense.
But whatever it takes to throw sand in the machinery.
The shot mandate is wrong on every level: legal, ethical, medical, moral, religious, personal survival, financial, and on and on.
Only the religious argument will let us know if we are still free people.
There IS the lack of full disclosure of side effects for the jabs, which is the necessary item for “informed consent.” That right there violates the Nuremberg code which covers war crimes doesn’t it? Soldiers should have full protection under that international agreement?
I don’t really see the difference between religious refusal and other strongly held personal beliefs, but in most vax exemption cases one must claim religion, not personal beliefs/preferences.
YES! I had such angst about submitting a religious accommodation request to my federal contractor… not that I don’t have religious objections, but more because bodily autonomy is a human right, and the accommodation request lends an air of validity to their mandate.
Ultimately I chose the accommodation, and I’m still working. At least for now. We’ll see what fresh hell they decided to roll out here in 2022.
Am awaiting the response to my request, we’ll see what the new year brings…
My family is in the same situation Coffeeplease, we deeply resent filling out the religious accomodation. It’s not our religious convictions would advise us against taking performance enhancing drugs even though it could improve output at work. We would not accept works request to do so.
Personal convictions and bodily autonomy are worthy and valid of exemptions, more importantly, it should have been sacrosanct and not asked of by our government.
Government and employers should have been required to come to the individual to negotiate an employers exemption from the norms to accomodate their workplace concerns and desired overreaching into our personal health. Employees should have been able to say “No [employer] you may not ask such a thing of me, find a different way YOU can make the workplace safe enough for YOUR concerns.”
I guess even in that situation they would say the only way to reach my safety standards would be to fire you…
Though I think it should be wrongful termination and valid terms for easy legal repercussions.
My religious exemption was accepted but truth be told, I would have rather used a medical reason/exemption, as I am a melanoma cancer survivor (melanoma is the most deadly skin cancer). But I had read that hardly any doctors will give a letter recommending against the Covid vax due to cancer, unless it’s a blood-related cancer such as Leukemia.
Dr. Ryan Cole has found that cancer rates are 20x normal in those who have had cancer (both survivors and current sufferers) and were vaxxed. But of course the medical “profession” is ignoring Dr. Cole’s research and first-hand experience.
P.S. I’m cancer-free 3+ years now.
The words of Title VII say “deeply held personal moral beliefs are such and can be so without a basis in any religion, and must be protected same as religious beliefs” or similar words to that effect.
They can be atheists and still be morally against abortion or the taking of other innocent life (which is BTW the qualifier used in the Bible; the Bible does not condemn the t the king of life, only Innocent Life) and still do their job as soldiers.
Others wrongly use the Bible to say the death penalty or even hunting is murder but ignore the qualifier if innocence.
So can work require you take “morally clean” vaccine? Why not a performance enhancing drugs because their science affirms it would greatly benifit work output and even workplace safety?
Wheres the line?
“…….There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.”
Excellent……we’re going to need them
Exactly. ..and if you earn the trident, you get to keep it unless you decide to give it away. It’s yours, not theirs.
May God’s justice come swiftly.
…and harshly.
There is no Federal solution.
Actually, another one of those times when old Joe is ABSOLUTELY right,…there IS no “Federal Solution” to the problem of Tyranists taking over our Republic.
STATES asserting THEIR authoritity, retaking Power the Fed govt expropriated, is the only route left to us.
And, for that to happen, MAGA voters need to sieze power AWAY from the Undeclared Democrats aka “Republican” hierarchy within the RNC/GOP, at ALL levels of Government.
And to do THAT, Republican voters HAVE to see the strings, and finally recognise the true nature OF the RNC/GOP “leadership”, and quit falling for their manipulations.
RNC seems to only support democrats.
Get rid of cocaine Mitch and his Bitch.
95% of the rest of them need to go too.
All of the senate needs to go. Not one would allow recess appointments for President Trump but will allow every cretin and subversive Biden picks.
You are right in everything you say, but the Republicans also control EVERY single candidate that runs for office. True, a person can claim to run as a Republican, but that does not mean that person will get “Republican” support.
We must remember that the RNC controls state and even local chapters. Loyalty to the party comes (is demanded) before loyalty to ANYTHING else.
Some ACTUAL sanity in an insane world?
Probably someone has grandchildren.
Fantastic! God bless these Navy Seals!
Clearly, those running the US Military do not even believe in the United States Constitution, of which the First Amendment is part and of which Freedom of Religion is part, so I don’t know why these Navy Seals, who do belive in the United States Constitution, would want to serve under them anyway.
These brave souls are the temple of the Living God. They are serving our Creator in defense of our Constitutional Republic and the free world. There is no nobler cause on the planet.
This is heartening. But I think anyone should be able to refuse being jabbed with an experimental unproven concoction aside from religious concerns.
True. Natural born, or God given, rights belong to everyone or they belong to no one.
Inalienable rights, among those, life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
True, but this is a start in the right direction.
Vax Propaganda for kids:
And thanks to the Navy SEALS for doing this.
The ball seriously needs to get rolling.
She even looks like a communist.
It is pretty sick to make a video for kids to convince them to take a shot that will do more harm than good.
Sorry, but she’s making a real i-d-i-*-t of herself! If only all of them were that easy to identify!
Donated to First Liberty.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain
“Its hard to fix Stupid” ….John Wayne
An industrious version would be “The Little Red Hen” asking for help to plow the field and had no takers until the bread was baked and fragrantly wafting through the window…
Wrong, wrong, wrong. That argument is conceding that mandates are legal irrespective of religious objections. In effect, suits like this are codifying the legitimacy of the mandates. This suit is creating case law, ‘settled law’, that the mandates are legal.
Vaccines ARE LEGAL to mandate within the DoD. Drugs under an EUA may be mandated as well, although the administration did not follow that process. The issue for the SEALS (and everyone else) is that the Navy is not following their own process for religious exemptions and instead sending out form letter refusals.
Although it is not actually a vaccine as it does not meet the definition of a vaccine.
Drugs (and other substances) that are intended to blunt the progression of disease, even under EUA, are allowed as well under the same regulation. Which they’ve thrown out, btw, and substituted with new guidance that supersedes it, special for this jab.
Like, I get it but you guys have to understand that the DoD is playing all sorts of games with this crap right now. And you have far, far less rights as a servicemember than you do as a civilian. I wish people would realize that servicemembers CANNOT FIGHT THIS on their own.
As a servicemember, you do not have the ability to fight it through your chain of command. When SecDef puts out a memo that says “I am ordering you to do this and it is legal” (which is what the guidance docs have literally all said), the ONLY recourse you have is either a Congressional investigation or a lawsuit. You cannot refuse that order without consequences.
I think perhaps it is time for legislature to rethink service member’s rights when it comes to medicine. I’ve given it some thought and I dont think compulsory vax under the guise of battle readiness should be allowed anymore. There has to be other ways to reasonably approach readiness.
Not to mention the FDA approved a “vaccine” called Cominarty. In addition they approved other treatments. Thus, under codified law- EUAs are no longer legal gor Covid, including the the two non approved “vaccines.”
Yet the FDA approved one us not available- they are playing games.
If anything it was a therapeutic.
under EUA is not legal barring catastrophic biological threat. Case during the swine flu settled that.
Yes, how is Covid a “catastrophic threat” when Congress is exempt from their own mandates, as are various unions, the US postal service and others.. ?
How does this catastrophe not affect our betters as it does everybody else?
How are half our businesses “threatened” but not the others? How does a cotton mask block the rona? (It doesn’t.) None of these drastic “measures” ever made sense.
Plus, people are going about their lives for two years now, getting sick and then recuperating.. Building their own natural immunity.. If the virus was ever a *catastrophic* threat, it certainly isn’t by this point. The variants make it weaker by the day..
There’s mounting evidence that these COVID “vaccines” are wrecking our own body’s NATURAL immunity. I’ve had enough damage done to my immune system without this crap.
EUA NOT..under the Nuremberg Codes any use of experimental drug MUST be accompanied by “informed consent” and the “right to refuse treatment”…we are a signatory to those meaning we recognize them as LAW
…And it specifies that consent must be obtained without coercion of any kind.
one battle at a time to win this war
Send it.
Shot over shot out
May this soon apply to all our service members, fighting off AlL jabs, whether the initial, or any “boosters”.
Nice try Obama
FJB!
Let’s Go Brandon!
I’m tired of the Brandon thing. Time to go back to the real thing.
FJB!
What kind of scumbags are running our military?
The kind the Founding Fathers would have shot.
Ones that want to utterly destroy our nation!
Civilian commies along with their selected and appointed political ambitious flag who all need a personal assignment as “tunnel rats” within the next phony war they start, that’s who!
Scumbags being paid by the CCP to soften up our military through progressive social mandates, political correctness, racist CRT indoctrination, and now physical weakening (of the immune systems ability to fight off debilitating disease) via the clot shots (quackcines).
They know exactly what they’re doing.
Who was the enemy, even from the beginning ? Here is a hint !
Read the Bible; At the beginning, Who deceived Eve? The snake !!! Right ?
What is the sign of the AMA? A snake around a stick !!! Right?
And now, They are obviously, collectively, lying !!!
If we believe the liars and ignore the truth, we DIE !!!
You are wrong in this. The snake around the stick is a reference to Moses telling the children of Israel to look at the snake and be saved, while they were in the desert. It is a holy and good sign that has been with us for 3000 years.
You are somewhat right about that.
And, the AMA would like you and all of us to believe they accordingly have a mandate from GOD to lie to us as they will.
But just as I said, the snake lies; and now they have shown their true colors !!!
Don’t be deceived.
I’m not deceived. And I definitely don’t believe the AMA . But that symbol is a righteous symbol. You can see it on ambulances and medical facilities all across the country. You and me are on the same page. Just don’t disparage that symbol. Thanks.
True, but that symbol was soiled and dishonored by many (not all) doctors these days. It now carries about as much weight as an atheist saying “I swear to God!”
…and the ones that refused to look to the Lord for salvation 57k were slain that day
I like snakes, and never feared them. When I was a young teenager, I actually captured and collected them in cages to study. They have a useful job to perform, and do it well, so protect them as well as you can. Many creatures are feared, but all have a purpose in this life.
It is NOT the snakes Per se that is the problem,
but it is the liars, using a symbol from the Bible,
who are masquerading as healers from GOD,
but are actually doing Satan’s work, not GOD’S.
The snake of the medical profession has nothing to do with Christianity. It’s a symbol that goes back to Ancient Greece and the gods identified with healing. It’s not a biblical reference.
As a corollary, please see: Caduceus.
How far we have come. We have to appeal to godless communists for a religious exemption.
God wins.
God Forever Bless The Navy Seals and all Our Military!!
The total lack of leadership from the imbecile pretending to be the secdef, to the cowardly chief of naval operations, is truly astounding. Spec ops military members deserve better. Frankly, the navy needs the Seals way more than it’ll ever need those pathetic excuses for leaders. The military can survive without what it currently has for leaders, it can’t survive without its operators.
The Frontline Doctors called it from the start. These lethal injections are a national security threat of the highest order. They targeted our military, our first responders, police and healthcare workers. They crippled our national security in one fell swoop.
Notice who remains completely unscathed: CONgress. No mandates for the mandators.
TRAITORS ALL.
YES!
Yep.
“As the enemy of God & His purposes, satan seeks to steal, kill & destroy.” John 10:10
John 6:9:41
Now, if we can just get that preliminary injunction to be permanent! You know the liberal democrats will fight that decision every which way they can!
District judges are solid. Appellate ones not so much. Let’s hope this sticks.
There has to come a point when the People accept “Masks do not work” and Covid “vaccine” does not work”. The difference is Political Correctness as opposed to Critical Thinking.
The bioweapon attack on the World was and still is very successful for the Communist/Fascist/Totalitarians. One only need ask are people now less free than before Covid? Are people more controlled or less controlled before Covid?
Fear is what is driving this Madness. Stop, ….take a deep breath,…. and carry on as you always have, and peace to everyone, Amen.
God, I pray that the Supreme Court of the United States will not side with Biden on the OSHA mandate. In Jesus’s name, amen.
The Supreme Court is as compromised, corrupt and crooked as all other branches of government. However, there are a minority of exception but not a majority of exception.
Perhaps they would stop this, if they thought there were any consequences to themselves for treason from within.
There are no consequences that would be considered “legal”. Although, what’s legal and illegal these days is straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
Their goal is our kids – those under 18. If they get to jab the kids they get liability protection. They are going to kill them by the 10’s of thousands!
We are going to have to hold ALL of them accountable very soon but not soon enough.
For any American, the not-vax mandates must not stand,
Kudos to this judge and well said. We need about 200 more of judges like him.
US postal workers exempted. Illegal immigrants exempted.
Those who endured physical and mental challenge, then offer themselves in service of their nation…threaten by this government to take why they earned.
Remove this Illegitimate government.
even their bogus FDA “approval” does not cover illegals…so they COULD seek recompense for damages AND the evil snakes in charge want 100ks of “typhoid Marys” keeping the panic going
I still think the mandates need to be challenged based on the science. We’re falling into a trap by making this a “science versus religion” argument. Their science is wrong. It’s not even science. It needs to be attacked head on.
The mandates need to be challenged in order a return to a USA Constitutional government.
Political science
According to Webster, they have failed to follow “Science”.
I converted two lo fos yesterday when I ordered new glasses. I sat and talked reasonably with them about what is in RFK, Jr’s book. I shared his website with them (one took a pic of the website from my phone) and the other wants to copy it from her co-worker. Spread the word with conviction, without fear, and underlining that these “officials” want us DEAD.
The “science” can be massaged by the government by simply claiming that the government MUST have emergency powers to protect the health and well-being of those they
serverule. Absent that authority, the people could suffer (or so the argument goes).It’s for the children, don’t you know.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
May God bless & protect our brave patriots.
There is only one Truth, and you said a mouthful. Thank you .
Why would you even what to serve your country anymore, knowing it has been hi-jacked by and is now under the control of such low life, pea brained, power hungry thugs, persons who have never read the Constitution or, if they ever did, never understood any of it.
My son wants so badly to join the USAF like his grandfather whom he loved so dearly. He wants to proudly serve and wear our uniform. I have sat him down and told him how he will be treated by this rogue regime. He has put his military ambitions in a holding pattern hoping for a good change. We are losing America First youngsters and their strength and will to serve because of this nonsense.
…there were ample people that served in Vietnam, Korea…
…and wondered about the wisdom of the orders that they received..
( while those in dc, luxury, and media propaganda,
were separated from reality )
i.e.
It ( dysfunction etc.) has happened before today.
One might think some would learn….
Imho
What would happen if everyone of our service members in every branch unionized and went on strike at the same time? Would we see who’s in charge of this nation then? This would also include Federal and State employees.
Unionization of govt employees has not worked well for the public so far.
Hopefully this injunction will cause that raging piece of human waste Austin to vapor lock
He does have covid, so there is hope.
Yes, but he will get ivermectin and other therapeutics.
The vax mandate is illegal, immoral unethical and unconstitutional. The communists are using it as a tool to separate the compliant sheep from the warriors. To purge the good men and women from the military and make it more woke. Counting on the courts is a crapshoot at best.
Gen Austin now has covid in spite of multiple vax, and he wears face shield and mask in public. What is the vax supposed to accomplish for the military?? Evidence of lefty compliance, which has become the main measure of military fitness (per the design of our chinese masters -note the chinese are doing the opposite with their military).
Our Creator gave us the ability to annihilate any attack on our bodies, if we stay healthy. We may become sick from time to time, but our bodies were “Designed” to produce antibodies for our survival. These “Fools” are trying to scare the shit out of us, and too many are unfortunately being fooled, but use your common sense , and get back to eating a healthy meal, plenty of fruit and vegetables, and stay away from fast greasy foods. Plenty of fresh water will also do you good.
Excellent reminders, Thank You!
Dr. Zalenko said a mouthful when he said, “Fear lives in the psychological space where God is absent.”
Isn’t KARMA great.
Not until Austin croaks.
To date, the DoD has reported only about 52 deaths of service members since this all started roughly 2 years ago. This includes reservists as well. That is one death every 2 weeks. The fact is, these numbers are miniscule when we look at other causes of mortality in the service. For example, suicide and accidents are the two leading causes of military deaths. We lose one service member roughly every 12 hours to just those two scenarios alone.
Covid: 1 death every two weeks
Suicide/Accident: 28 deaths every 2 weeks
This has nothing to do with saving lives. But it once again confirms that younger people in good physical condition (not obese, etc) have a risk from covid so small as to be almost statistically irrelevant.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF10899.pdf
Pray without ceasing.
We, the People, owe our military a purge of the entire gutless, treasonous, perverted hellhole we call Washington DC.
Similar military lawsuits in play right now. The LC case is seeking an injunction for the entire military.
Not only blanket denials for every religious accommodation request submitted to date but there remains the question whether the vaccine order is lawful. Title 10 1107 prohibits EUA vaccine mandates. The Service Components are mandating EUA vaccines in lieu of the only FDA approved, BioNtech Comirnaty vaccine.
Pfizer continues to exclusively distribute the EUA Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine. The FDA approved and labeled BioNtech Comirnaty remains unavailable in the US market. Many see the decision as a means to circumvent liability.
With that said, at present, the military mandate is not legal. You will hear more about this soon.
Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Austen has Covid, after being vaccinated many times.
“The plaintiffs move to represent a putative class of all service members, all federal contractors, all employees of federal contractors, and all federal civilian employees.”
Looks like they’re trying to cover more than just the SEALS/military personnel. Praying it sticks!
https://beckernews.com/navy-seals-achieve-stunning-victory-in-americas-fight-against-vaccine-mandates-43616/
The first sentence of the Nuremberg Code (Directives for Human Experimentation):
I don’t know if such a ruling can be extended without a petitioner but it should have been applied to the whole Navy, as Marine exemptions granted are also at Zero. They stand to lose over a division’s worth of Marines.
This will be a tough one.
I recall being jabbed with various biochem preventatives when entering the Middle East back in the day while serving. It wasn’t voluntary.
Precedent.
… that they would confiscate their SEAL trident just boggles the mind! The US military is demeaning itself like the French military demeaned itself when they broke Dreyfus’ sword. These are plain political actions.
So China gets rid of 30-40% of our Special Forces? Pardon the pun, without a shot.
This should roll over to all military servicemen. Marine Corps is doing the same blanket denial of Religious Accommodations. There needs to be an investigation into why our military leaders are denying 1st Amendment rights. Answer: Our leaders are feckless commies.