Thu Mar 16, 2023 – 6:38 pm EDT
MILFORD, Connecticut (LifeSiteNews) – A Connecticut church is suing the state on religious liberty grounds for attempting to force it to subject religious school students to vaccination requirements.
Fox News reported that the dispute concerns changes Connecticut made in 2021 to its immunization requirements for participation in public and private schools (as well as daycare and other childcare centers), by eliminating the ability to obtain religious exemptions, leaving medical exemptions the only possible avenue to avoid objectionable injections.
Milford Christian Church, which maintains a pre-kindergarten program called Little Eagles and a K-12 Academy, has refused to comply, and as a result was given a “choice between compelling their students to vaccinate, expelling them if they didn’t, or facing the forceable state closure,” attorney Cameron Atkinson said.
In response, it is suing the Connecticut State Department of Education, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, and Connecticut Department of Public Health on First Amendment grounds.
“The plaintiff will submit information to the court as early as today to provide clarity” regarding how the school will proceed while litigation is pending, the state attorney general’s office responded, Fox 61 reported. “As always, the
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