Tue Jan 25, 2022 – 3:44 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — A Republican member of Congress introduced legislation Tuesday to stop the federal government from recording the personal religious information of Americans who obtain religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
As LifeSiteNews reported last week, the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia (PSA) has published a proposal in the Federal Register for an “Employee Religious Exception Request Information System,” which would maintain “personal religious information collected in response to religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement in the context of a public health emergency or similar health and safety incident.”
This week, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina introduced legislation to deny federal funding to any such system, Fox News reports.
Norman’s Religious Freedom Over Mandates Act declares, “No Federal funds may be used to establish, operate, maintain, or support any system of records on religious accommodations requested by, or granted to, an employee, detailed, contractor, consultant, intern, applicant, volunteer, or any other person with respect to any COVID-19 vaccination requirement.”
“The ability for individuals to openly practice their faith without fear of retribution is a precious right we
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