In Tampa hearing, military officers voice religious objections to vaccines [View all]
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Source: Tampa Bay Times
A Navy commander and Marine lieutenant colonel testified Thursday about the reasons for resisting a military vaccine mandate.
TAMPA — A Navy commander and a Marine lieutenant colonel who have resisted a military-wide vaccine mandate took the witness stand Thursday in a Tampa federal courtroom, describing their religious reasons for refusing to be inoculated against COVID-19.
The pair testified anonymously, with a judge’s consent, to protect their identities. Both described themselves as practicing Christians who believed that receiving vaccines would introduce impurities into their bodies. Each also expressed concern about fetal cell lines, which are used in the research and development of various vaccines and many common medicines.
The military denied each of them a religious exemption to the vaccine requirement. Both could face discharge if they don’t comply.
“I cannot knowingly put something in my body that I believe is a toxin,” said the Navy commander, who leads some 320 sailors aboard a guided-missile destroyer based in northern Virginia.
“For me, it would be a sin,” said the lieutenant colonel, who serves as a diversity and inclusion officer with the Marine Forces Special Operations Command. “Because it would defile my body. Because my body is a temple of Jesus Christ.”
Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/military/2022/02/10/in-tampa-hearing-military-officers-voice-religious-objections-to-vaccines/
"...my body is a temple of Jesus Christ..." sez the Marine Special Operations Command lieutenant colonel...
Sounds like the MASH Frank Burns character...
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