'General Hospital' Anti-Vaxxer Sues ABC Over Dismissal, Says God Protects Him From COVID

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ingo-rademacher-sues-abc-after-dismissal-from-general-hospital



Ingo Rademacher—the actor who was fired from General Hospital for refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine—has sued ABC over his dismissal, arguing that his firing amounts to religious discrimination. Rademacher lost his role over his vaccine stance, and he was ditched shortly after upsetting his castmates by posting an anti-transgender meme. In his lawsuit, Rademacher—who played Jasper “Jax” Jacks on the soap for over two decades—claims he asked ABC for a religious exemption from its vaccine mandate, but his request was turned down. According to Variety, he told his employers in October that he should be exempt due to “my deeply and sincerely held moral belief that my body is endowed by my creator with natural processes to protect me and that its natural integrity.”

Read it at Variety



Ingo Rademacher also shared an anti-transgender meme on social media Sunday, prompting backlash from some castmates.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/general-hospital-ingo-rademacher-out-1235044072/

[SheltieLover]

1. Maybe "god" expects people to use common sense

Not this guy's forte, obviously.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

2. What a freak

What makes a person prone to brainwash?

[Pantagruel]

3. More proof

religion makes you stupid.

[former9thward]

9. Do you say that about Presidents Obama and Biden when they go to church?

[Mike Nelson]

4. Well...

...I'm always surprised when General Hospital is mentioned... can't believe it's still running! But... wow... 20 years and they just now discovered stuff like this... and on a show about doctors!

[Murphyb849]

5. Is he not Australian?

[Celerity]

8. West German born, moved to Australia at age 10

[catrose]

6. There's no place for him to spew virus over the cast and crew

unless his character can be stricken with a disease so that he has to live in a bubble. Or a coma.

[mucifer]

10. There still are soap operas?

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. I think there are 4 left

[keithbvadu2]

11. Many dead people said the very same thing. Must be a different God.

[durablend]

12. "God" sent a vaccine you dolt

[DBoon]

13. so do his attorneys plan on deposing God?

To verify that God in fact said this?

[rockfordfile]

15. Shit for brains

[elias7]

16. Yes, because you're better than the millions of people worldwide who God has let die from this

[Iggo]

17. No vax, no Jax. Know'm say'n?