Tue Nov 23, 2021 – 1:37 pm ESTTue Nov 23, 2021 – 1:45 pm EST
UPTON, New York (LifeSiteNews) — An engineer with a Department of Energy-funded national research laboratory has resigned from his position after his employer imposed a discriminatory COVID-19 policy requiring employees to wear color-coded badges indicating their vaccination status.
“As of today, I’m a former employee of Brookhaven National Laboratory,” John Rothermel told LifeSite in a phone interview Monday.
“I never was the most political person in the world, but this has just driven me to be an activist,” he said. “I have never in my life thought I would be calling the media, or standing in a picket line, or doing any of these things, or quit my job over a political issue, but here I am. I had a job lined up, they approved my exemption, and I walked into my boss’s office and handed over my resignation letter saying, ‘Too bad. Goodbye.’”
Rothermel had worked as an electrical design engineer for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) — a federal contractor which receives its primary funding from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science — for three years before turning in
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