Last week, a federal judge for the Northern District of Texas slapped the U.S. Navy down hard, ordering them to stop discharging unjabbed service members who asked for a religious exemption.
Navy SEALs to the rescue
On Monday, March 28, federal judge Reed O’Connor banged his gavel on a decision that affects not only the group of SEALs who filed the case but each and every service member in the Navy who asked for a religious exemption and got a “big chicken dinner” for it.
That’s military speak for Bad Conduct Discharge. Following the ruling, the department “can no longer separate service members who are unvaccinated and have sought a religious exemption from getting a Covid-19 vaccine.”
The original suit challenging the policy was filed by a group of Navy SEALs, naming Uncle Sam as the only defendant. They wrote U.S. Government on the caption in that blank “last fall after the U.S. military implemented a Covid-19 vaccine mandate.”
In the official paperwork, they politely requested “that they not be reprimanded or denied deployments because they had requested a religious exemption to not be inoculated against the coronavirus.” At the time, their requests hadn’t been granted yet.
By January, their lawyers ramped things up and made it into a class action. Essentially, the SEALs were representing all 4,000 of the Navy service members “who have requested religious exemptions.”
None of them deserved to be canned for refusing to inject DNA from aborted fetuses. Judge O’Connor agrees. He granted the class action request.
Supreme Court yells freeze!
The plot thickens even more because last week, the Supreme Court “agreed to temporarily freeze part of the lower Northern District of Texas court’s opinion.” The part which required the Pentagon “to deploy the Navy SEALs in the case, even though they remained unvaccinated per their religious exemption request.”
When Judge O’Connor granted the class action status, he also “issued an order in line with that Supreme Court move and said that the Navy could still take into account the service members’ vaccination status in deployment decisions.”
What that means is the SEALs or any other service member can be left sitting on their hands but can’t be fired. The “Navy is not required to deploy unvaccinated service members,” so says the Supreme Court. The department quickly sent out updated “guidance to comply with the district court order.”
That’s a good thing for those affected because it means “the Navy will not impart any ‘adverse administrative consequences‘ on service members who have requested religious exemption from the Covid-19 vaccine.”
They also put out a press release acknowledging that “4,282 active-duty US Navy service members and 3,267 US Navy Ready Reserve service members remain unvaccinated as of March 30, and as of March 24, the Navy has separated 732 members from the service.”
The reason listed is “refusing the COVID-19 vaccine,” Not refusing to be injected with an experimental dose of murdered babies, which does not provide any immunity at all, so doesn’t qualify as a vaccine anyway.
