Fri Aug 26, 2022 – 7:40 pm EDT
TAMPA, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge last week issued a preliminary injunction upholding the rights of U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) personnel to refuse the mandated COVID-19 injection for religious reasons.
The decision comes after Christian legal group Liberty Counsel filed a classwide lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Lloyd Austin on behalf of U.S. Marines who had been denied religious exemptions from the armed forces jab mandate, CBN reported.
U.S. District Court of Florida Judge Steven Merryday handed down the 48-page ruling on August 18, declaring that the Department of Defense may not force any Marine included in the class-wide suit to get the shot.
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The judge noted that 3,733 Marines have requested religious accommodations from the jab mandate, but only 11 accommodations have thus far been granted.
According to Merryday, the DOD does not have a compelling interest not to grant the religious exemption requests of Marines.
“The record fails to demonstrate any meaningful increment of harm to national defense likely to result because
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