Fri Aug 27, 2021 – 5:07 pm EDT
BANGOR, Maine (LifeSiteNews) – Liberty Counsel has filed a lawsuit representing over 2,000 Maine healthcare workers to fight a measure that requires all health care workers in the state of Maine to receive full COVID-19 vaccination.
The brief states that “All Plaintiffs seek in this lawsuit is to be able to continue to provide the health care they have provided to patients for their entire careers, and to do so under the same protective measures that have sufficed for them to be considered superheroes for the last 18 months.”
The brief also asks a federal judge in Bangor to impose a temporary order that would stop the measure from taking effect. The mandate comes on the heels of the implementation of a law passed in 2019 that prohibits religious exemptions from vaccination.
Named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Janet T. Mills (D-ME), governor of Maine, officials from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and five major hospital systems in Maine.
Liberty Counsel contends that the mandate violates, in addition to the First Amendment, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which states that religious exemptions and
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