ICAN wins religious exemption decision in Mississippi: Why this matters
This is a critical first step to enabling a NATIONWIDE religious opt out of vaccination requirements for kids to attend school. It should now be just a matter of time until this is nationwide.
Executive summary
Here’s the announcement of the win:
The federal court ruling that the First Amendment requires that, by 7/15/23, the State of Mississippi afford its residents a religious exemption for their children to attend school without one or more state mandated vaccines!
If the state appeals and ICAN wins again, the decision will apply to all Fifth Circuit states. If they appeal again to SCOTUS and win, it applies to all states.
If the state doesn’t appeal, lawyers in other states have an opportunity to leverage the decision and take it upwards to SCOTUS.
Summary
I think it is just a matter of time before this ruling applies to the entire US.
That’s what makes it so important.
Congratulations to ICAN, Aaron Siri, and Del Bigtree on a very important win!
I am not as optimistic as you are. SCOTUS upheld the Covid vax mandate relying on a one page decision from 1905 - a decision that later upheld the practice of Eugenics. What is needed is a repealing of the liability shield for vaccines - including the shield for doctors when they don't provide real informed consent and a push for every state to provide greater first amendment protection than is granted under the federal constitution. States can provide greater constitutional protection than the federal government.
How about this: invalidating arbitrary and useless mask & vaccine mandates on First Amendment grounds. Meaning, I have the freedom not to be forced to worship Fauci and/or believe in in the COVID faith (and/or Scientism), just because "Joe Biden" and his teleprompter wants to tell us strictly faith-based stories about a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."