Mon May 2, 2022 – 8:49 pm EDT
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Illinois (LifeSiteNews) – An American serviceman fighting his possible discharge from the United States Air Force for resisting the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is in the process working to raise awareness of the unlawful and potentially fraudulent nature of the mandate.
In August 2021, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed the secretaries of all military branches to “immediately begin full [COVID] vaccination of all members of the Armed Forces” and “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.” Nearly 25,000 service members remain unvaccinated, seeking exemptions, according to Liberty Counsel’s April 26, 2022, Navy Seal 1 v. Biden motion to Federal District Court Judge Steven Merryday.
Some have secured exemptions for non-religious reasons, but the military has been largely unwilling to approve religious objections to the shots, all of which were either developed or tested with the use of fetal cells from aborted babies. In December, the military began discharging soldiers for vaccine refusal, provoking several lawsuits.
Last October, USAF Master Sergeant Robert Biermann applied for a religious exemption to the mandate, rooted in a belief that taking the vaccine would violate his “sincerely held
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