Federal Judge David Hurd from the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
The Thomas More Society is a group of conservative Catholic lawyers who “fight against government over-reach” and defend “religious liberty.” [1] On September 13, 2021, Catholic attorneys from the Thomas More Society (a venerated saint in the Catholic Church) representing 17 doctors and nurses petitioned a federal court in the Northern District of New York to block the enforcement of New York’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
Christopher A. Ferrara, special counsel to the Thomas More Society and president of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, said New York State was eliminating the protections for sincerely held religious beliefs provided under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He argued that “many people have sincere religious objections to vaccines that were tested, developed, or produced with cell lines derived from aborted children.” [2]
A federal judge agreed and blocked New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers that was issued on August 28, 2021 and required all “employees at nursing homes and hospitals to have at least one shot by September 27, 2021.” New York State wouldn’t even allow religious exemptions for their vaccine mandates. Federal Judge David Hurd signed a temporary restraining order “temporarily” stopping this mandate from being enforced. [3]
Never in the entire history of our nation have we seen so many draconian mandates, which are tragically creating a new class of discriminated citizens. These mandates are ruining people’s professional careers, damaging their personal lives, causing them to get fired and forbidding them basic freedoms such as earning income, travel, education, shopping, food and other goods and services. Here we have a state, New York, which believes it has the right to override federal law that establishes both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the policies of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) which “requires employers to accommodate religious beliefs, practices and observances if the beliefs are ‘sincerely held’ and the reasonable accommodation poses no undue hardship on the employer.” [4]
Apparently, the Health Department and the entire New York State health bureaucracy decided on their own that they could deny any kind of religious accommodation. And here we have doctors, nurses and other medical technicians who used to be considered “heroes” on the front line against Covid-19; tragically, now they are outcasts, marginalized, unwanted and are about to be fired on September 27, 2021 if they don’t get a vaccine that is abortion connected – tested, developed or produced with cell lines derived from aborted children.
A federal judge has now agreed that this should not be allowed to happen and has temporarily restrained the enforcement of this mandate. You can read his restraining order by clicking here. New York State has until September 22, 2021 to respond to the lawsuit. If New York State opposes the lawsuit, oral arguments will begin on September 28, 2021. Pray for the success of the hearing and for a permanent injunction against this serious overreach by a state to enforce mandates without religious exemptions.
No employer has the right to deny any employee religious exemptions or accommodations if they have a sincere religious objection to Covid-19 vaccines, and it doesn’t matter how much our church publications say otherwise. That’s what this injunction in New York is all about. Print it out and read it for yourself. It’s public information. And it’s time for Seventh-day Adventist institutions to begin accommodating their members and extend religious exemptions to all of their employees and get in line with federal law, because we too will be out of compliance if we don’t extend religious exemptions and accommodations to those who oppose Covid-19 vaccines for sincerely held religious beliefs.
It is a shame that too many Seventh-day Adventists have such weak positions on abortion, forced vaccine mandates and religious liberty in general. I never thought I would say this but, “Praise the Lord for these patriotic, religious liberty Catholic lawyers, and may God use them in this important fight for religious freedom.”
“God has children, many of them in the Protestant churches, and a large number in the Catholic churches, who are more true to obey the light and to do the very best of their knowledge than a large number among Sabbathkeeping Adventists who do not walk in the light. The Lord will have the message of truth proclaimed that Protestants may be warned and awakened to the true state of things and consider the worth of the privileges of religious freedom which they have long enjoyed” (Manuscript 30, 1889).
Sources
[1] https://thomasmoresociety.org/about/
[3] https://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-blocks-york-covid-191800804.html
[4] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-12-religious-discrimination
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Praise the Lord.
It is amazing that God is using conservative Catholics and attorneys to do his work when the Adventist church is going along with government overreach. It is a sad state of affairs.
Agree.
It’s a shame SDA churches couldn’t have been a great beacon of light for Religious liberty on this issue it could have brought a great number into the truth,
instead of the Beast of the Sea WHO created these very issue’s in the first place…
Going to point out here that these people who are pro religious liberty aren’t really Catholics but actually Protestants,
Like Luther & others who were once Catholic but followed the Truth right out the door of Catholism,
As Catholics follow and obey the pope, that Catholic system is a system of subservience to a pope who has made the vaccine a moral issue and admits that they are made using cells from aborted fetuses:
On YouTube:
“Vatican Declares Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Morally Acceptable’ for Catholics”
The Papacy okayed Dr Plotkins “work” with aborted Fetuses in the 60’s as it was for the “Catholic Common Good”
Catholic church largest shareholder in pharmaceuticals,
So these are actually Protestants in disguise, boat rockers, truth lovers
Just as the SDA church also has people who sadly (weither they realise it or not) are actually Catholics and just obey others instead of following truth wheresoever it goes.
PAUSE…for a moment! To the Pope Francis I, these Catholic lawyers, who has influenced a federal judge to listen and agree to their suit, are liberal Catholics. Please understand, the Vatican hates liberal Catholics. What happened to President John F. Kennedy when he said, “I will follow the dictates of the Constitution of the United States of America, not the commands of the Pope of Rome! What happened to him. Roman had multiple of black-ops to blow Kennedy’s head off in front of the world!
It was Pope Pius IX who said, “Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.” He further said, “I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.”
Who remembers the 1572 St. Bartholomew Day Massacre? Not only did the local Catholics and Jesuits of France slaughter thousands of Protestant Huguenots, but hey slaughter liberal Catholics. Now come with me to Rwanda, Africa 1994. It was American Ambassador to the UN, Madeline Albright, who said, “Don’t call it the G word!”
What G word? Genocide! The Rwanda Genocide. But let’s do a double take! It was Rome’s Inquisition! For you see Catholic Hutus slaughtered 800, 000 Protestant Tutsis. Annnnd! Also liberal Catholics were among the slaughter,
The Pope are not looking at these Catholic lawyers as Conservative Catholics. They are liberal Catholics, which the “Divining Serpant” hates.
By the way, the statement, “It is a shame that too many Seventh-day Adventists have such weak positions on abortion, forced vaccine mandates and religious liberty in general,” is incorrect! It should say the “SDAs have such a Satanic position.” The mNRA gene “jab” is satanic!!!
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