Thu Feb 3, 2022 – 4:30 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Navy under the Biden administration is violating a court injunction against its COVID-19 vaccine mandate by continuing to pressure Navy SEALs who sought religious exemptions into compliance, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor granted a preliminary injunction barring the administration from enforcing the mandate against SEALs with religious objections to the shots, ruling there is “no Covid-19 exception to the First Amendment” and “no military exclusion from our Constitution.”
But religious freedom law firm First Liberty alleges that the Navy is subjecting the SEALs to other forms of punishment for their noncompliance, Fox News reports.
In one example, a plaintiff identified only as “Navy SEAL 26” requested permission to travel for brain-injury treatment, after which “multiple high-ranking Naval officers in SEAL 26’s command began calling the treatment center and asking if it would deny treatment to someone who is unvaccinated.” When the treatment center indicated it would not, “the Navy ran out the clock on SEAL 26’s request again: the treatment center had to give his spot to another patient because SEAL 26 had not been given
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