Wed Nov 24, 2021 – 4:39 pm EST
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews) — A total of 150 scientists and employees at the largest science and energy national laboratory in the Department of Energy (DOE) system are on indefinite unpaid leave after their employer refused to accommodate their religious rejection of the COVID jab.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which began in 1943 as part of the secret World War II-era Manhattan Project and houses the world’s second-most powerful supercomputer, is operated by UT-Battelle, a not-for-profit managed by the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute, which has contracts with nine of the 17 National Laboratories.
The UT-Battelle scientists now on unpaid leave object to currently available COVID-19 shots because they were developed or produced using abortion-derived fetal cell lines. Two of these scientists, twin brothers Jordan and Rob Lefebvre, explained to the Daily Wire that while their religious exemption was technically approved by UT-Battelle, the company has refused to provide work accommodations like frequent COVID testing or remote work.
UT-Battelle claims such accommodations would pose an “undue hardship” on the company, and invoked the necessity of on-site work as part of ORNL’s national missions. “The only [hope] that
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