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Legal Non-Profit Advises Santa Clarita Residents How To Seek Religious Exemption Against COVID-19 Vaccine

In the wake of approaching coronavirus vaccination mandates, Freedom’s Way Baptist Church welcomed legal non-profit president Brad Dacus Sunday evening to remind the public of religious exemption when denied their religious freedoms, parental rights and other civil liberties.” 

 

 

The president and attorney of Pacific Justice Institute, a legal nonprofit experienced in protecting religious freedoms, parental rights and other civil liberties, provided legal advice for people in Santa Clarita who have chosen to not receive the coronavirus vaccine for religious reasons. 

On Sunday, more than 50 people gathered inside Castaic’s Freedom’s Way Baptist Church in a search for legal guidance as to their “civil liberties” to choose whether or not to take the vaccine remain threatened.

“My own sister died two months ago from COVID-19,” Dacus said. “She was a missionary down in Belize. She refused the vaccine. She had many underlying health conditions. She was about 60-years-old and for her, it might have made good sense (to take the vaccine).”

Dacus continuously clarified that he does not believe many of the vaccine conspiracy theories that have been rotating in and out of the public eye, including the alleged microchip theory, but he believes that “freedom is the most important where the stakes are the highest.”

“On the flip side, I personally know a 27-year-old strong, healthy male that was required to get the vaccine for work,” Dacus said. “Shortly after getting it, his nose started bleeding. It wouldn’t stop. He went to the doctors’. They admitted him. Less than two weeks later in the hospital, he’s dead.”

Dacus attributed vaccine mandates, “that could contribute to cancer and infertility” to the abrupt shift in capital wealth where 30 billionaires have been created as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Dacus. 

When faced with vaccination mandates in the workplace despite personal religious beliefs, Dacus recommends that people fill out religious exemption forms and “be sincere” as to why the requirement violates one’s conscience and belief in God, according to Dacus. 

If the religious exemption letter is denied, which is quite common, ask the employer for the reason for the denial and ask about an appeals process, according to Dacus. 

If the employee is met with any retaliation for not being vaccinated, a complaint to the Equal Opportunity Commission should be filed, he said. 

“We have a lot of people who are very intolerant of people of faith and it’s like this demonic thing coming out,” Dacus said. “They’re being hostile, unreasonable. It’s almost like a mindset where they want to purge people of faith.”

Title VII (7) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from failure or refusal to hire any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his/her compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Legal Non-Profit Advises Santa Clarita Residents How To Seek Religious Exemption Against COVID-19 Vaccine

13 comments

  1. You have to have a history of opting out of all vaccines in the past, to qualify for exemption for religious reasons.

  2. I’ve read the Bible, so just to be clear, it doesn’t say anything about vaccines and it does command the faithful to follow the laws of the land. The law is get vaccinated if you want to do work for the government or do anything fun…you don’t have to pray on this one…just get vaccinated…its the law…be a good Christian and follow the law. This church is trying to deceive you and take your attention away from God. Beware these false prophets or “NON PROPHETS” who encourage you to harm yourself, your family, your church and community. There are times to be sheep and times to be lions…be a lion and get your shots. Don’t be a selfish, Troglodyte, hypocrits, just get a shot if you you want anyone to take you or your faith seriously…otherwise…yer just a joke.

  3. The most intolerant people are generally the most religious. Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your actions do. So do the right thing; in the midst of a global health crisis perhaps you should ask yourself WWJD? Prolonging needless suffering and death by refusing a free, safe and effective vaccine certainly is not the answer.

    • You do realize people with the vaccine can still get and spread the virus, right? Yes, the likelihood is smaller, but it still happens so stop acting like it’s only the unvaccinated who are spreading it.

      Trust your vaccine, and leave people alone. My body my choice, right?

      • You do realize NO vaccine guarantees 100% protection, what vaccines do however is mitigate the chances of the vaccinated from getting severely ill, reduces the likelihood of transmission, of hospitalization and death. That’s how all vaccines work. So yes, I understand how vaccines work.

        We are social beings, we don’t live in isolation it is the unvaccinated who are allowing this virus to mutate, spread, sicken and kill. No one has the right to infect another person. Right?

        As for “my body, my choice” try telling that to the Texas Taliban (aka GOP) who have currently denied all girls and women, even in the case of rape and incest, their Constitutional Right to choose to get an abortion. Roe v. Wade 1973.

        So John, try “mansplaining” to someone else. I understand and support science, I am an educated, socially minded woman and abhor the lies being perpetrated by a faction of society who continue to spread BS and then whine when confronted with facts.

  4. Kms
    Honestly, I heard it on KFI radio. Sounded credible. Correct this if it is wrong. Thanks.

  5. So sad to see KHTS spreading misinformarion. By quoting this guy’s rumors.

    This article was not useful.

  6. Yes…”So do the right thing; in the midst of a global health crisis perhaps you should ask yourself WWJD? Prolonging needless suffering and death by refusing a free (??? – tax money in the billions went to the pharma companies), safe (VAERS) and effective (ineffective after 6-months – boosters anybody?) vaccine certainly is not the answer.”
    Yes! Give up all your freedoms to billionaires and global elites and their political cronies who manufactured the largest wealth transfer in history, impoverishing all future generations with insurmountable debt and Chinese communist style authoritarianism. Because that is what Jesus would do. Live in fear and obedience.

  7. Greg,
    You aren’t giving up all your freedoms.God made man smart enough to create vaccines.

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Born and raised in Santa Clarita, Rachel Matta has always had a love for writing and media. The first time she ever smiled was actually while she was laying next to her mom as she flipped through the pages of a magazine. Upon graduating from high school in 2019, she chose to major in both journalism and political science at College of the Canyons with the intention of concentrating in news reporting. She began her journey at KHTS as a news intern in the summer of 2020 and officially joined the newsroom in the spring of 2021, intending to move forward with compassion and inquisition.