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FORT WORTH, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — A U.S. District Judge has granted members of the Navy SEALs a preliminary injunction on the Navy’s mandate to obtain the experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
“The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect,” wrote Judge Reed O’Connor, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, in his order from the Fort Worth U.S. District Court. “The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no Covid-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.”
The injunction prevents the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate on military service personnel who reject the experimental vaccine on religious grounds. The mandate was announced in August 2021. Dozens of Navy SEALs and others responded by initiating a case against the Biden administration and DoD when they were denied any religious accommodation to avoid the jab.
In fact, several plaintiffs were told “the senior leadership of Naval Special Warfare has no patience or tolerance for service members who refuse COVID-19 vaccination for religious reasons and wants them out of the SEAL community.”
Many of the SEALs were directly threatened with “court
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