{"id":34421,"date":"2021-10-04T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34421"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:46:14","slug":"ask-them-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/04\/ask-them-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Them This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confronted by some anti-vaxxer spouting off about religious exemptions like these folks?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandate is being challenged in a lawsuit filed by four active-duty US Air Force officers, a Secret Service agent, a Border Patrol agent, and four other federal employees or contractors. The lawsuit claimed that &#8220;convicted serial killers who have been sentenced to death receive more respect&#8221; than citizens who are required to take vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.235825\/gov.uscourts.dcd.235825.1.0.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0alleges that the vaccine mandate forces service members, federal employees, and federal employees to &#8220;inject themselves with: (1) a non-FDA approved product; (2) against their will; and (3) without informed consent.&#8221; Plaintiffs seek a ruling that the vaccine mandates issued by Biden and the Department of Defense &#8220;violate the Fifth Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of substantive due process&#8221; and &#8220;the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment.&#8221; (The Pfizer vaccine does have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/08\/fda-approves-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-now-called-comirnaty\/\">full FDA approval<\/a>.)<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/10\/biden-sued-by-air-force-officers-who-compare-vaccine-rule-to-death-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my suggestion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Please enumerate for me all lawful religious exemptions which directly endanger my health and life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let them sputter over that one for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confronted by some anti-vaxxer spouting off about religious exemptions like these folks? President Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandate is being challenged in a lawsuit filed by four active-duty US Air Force officers, a Secret Service agent, a Border Patrol agent, and four other federal employees or contractors. The lawsuit claimed that &#8220;convicted \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/04\/ask-them-this\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34422,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34421\/revisions\/34422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}