California mega-church offers COVID vaccine 'religious exemption' in public Instagram post

[TexasTowelie]

Destiny Christian Church in Rocklin, which openly defied Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 shutdown orders, now plans to provide “religious exemptions” to people who want to avoid getting vaccinated.

Pastor Greg Fairrington, who has frequently thumbed his nose at Newsom from the pulpit and has endorsed the gubernatorial recall, said in a post on Instagram that the mega-church plans to hand out exemptions at services on Sunday. Newsom has been mandating vaccines for state government workers and California’s healthcare workers.

It wasn’t immediately clear what form Destiny Church’s exemptions would take, although Fairrington showed a form on the Instagram post that he said was vetted by attorneys. Church officials weren’t available for comment Friday.

Fairrington made his offer as an increasing number of employers are demanding vaccines of their workers; the city of Sacramento warned its employees Friday they could be terminated if they’re not vaccinated by Sept. 1.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article253485334.html

[viva la]

1. I give the preacher a week...

Before he's on a ventilator
Covid karma.

[nwliberalkiwi]

2. Morally Bankrupt

What a piece of human shit!!!

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Seems like the obvious answer is not to allow religious exemptions.

There's absolutely no reason to allow someone to opt out and endanger others for a nonsensical religious objection that's almost certainly pretext. And even the Catholic Church recently said that there's no basis for an exemption for the mRNA vaccines.

[Croney]

4. Also known as a pee-in-the-pool pass.

As if what they do doesn't affect others.

[RockRaven]

5. I was under the impression that religious exemptions for vaccines re schools were already kaput,

in California I mean.

So if that is, in fact, legal/constitutional -- and surely these morons have complained about it in legal avenues since then -- then why would this grifter be able to actually deliver on his promises to the rubes he is targeting?



Oh, wait!!! He has no intention of actually accomplishing what he promises, just bilking the idiots who believe him in the meantime...

[dflprincess]

6. If you claim a religious exemption for the vaccine

don't show up at the ER expecting to be treated. Your religion either allows medicine or it doesn't.

[SamKnause]

7. I agree 100%.

I would like to exempt them from everything.

I am sick of their dangerous bullshit.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Maybe a religious exemption for someone with a contagious disease attending their services?

Maybe a religious exemption for someone with a contagious disease attending their services?