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Biden Administration ‘Strongly Opposes’ Honorable Discharge for Troops Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
BY ZACHARY STIEBER September 22, 2021
President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday came out against efforts to prevent dishonorable discharges for U.S. troops who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/biden-administration-strongly-opposes-honorable-discharge-for-troops-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccine_4011759.html
Biden Administration ‘Strongly Opposes’ Honorable Discharge for Troops Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
BY ZACHARY STIEBER September 22, 2021
President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday came out against efforts to prevent dishonorable discharges for U.S. troops who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near, with lopsided rates across the individual services and a spike in deaths among military reservists illustrating how political division over the shots has seeped into a nonpartisan force with unambiguous orders.
Overall, the military's vaccination rate has climbed since August, when Defense Department leaders, acting on a directive from President Joe Biden, informed the nation's 2.1 million troops that immunization would become mandatory, exemptions would be rare and those who refuse would be punished. Yet troops' response has been scattershot, according to data assessed by The Washington Post.
Archbishop for the U.S. military affirms Catholic troops can rightly refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based on personal conviction
John Knox
Oct 15th, 2021 11:16 am
Score one for Catholics in the U.S. Military, thanks to Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio:
Catholic U.S. troops should be allowed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based solely on conscientious objection and regardless of whether abortion-related tissue was used in its creation or testing, the archbishop for the military declared in a new statement supporting service members who are seeking religious exemptions.
"No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience," said Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio, in a statement released Tuesday.
Broglio previously has supported President Joe Biden's mandatory vaccination order for U.S. troops, citing the church's guidance that permits Catholics to receive even vaccines derived from fetal tissue, when no other vaccine option is available. In his new statement, the archbishop said that while he still encourages followers and troops to get vaccinated, some troops have questioned if the church's permission to get vaccinated outweighed their own conscious objections to it.
"It does not," Broglio wrote.
Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate and officials say it is too late for them to do so by Tuesday’s deadline, posing a first major test for military leaders whose August directive has been met with defiance among a segment of the force.
Note that the article has a huge error though: it says that the jab was FDA approved when it most definitely was not. Only a non-existing jab was approved:
https://patrick.net/post/1340804/2021-08-23-updated-fda-did-not-approve-the-existing