Stars and Stripes:
The Department of Defense’s recent announcement that all service members must now receive the COVID-19 vaccine, or else, sends the wrong message to America’s military. My firm, First Liberty Institute, has recently been inundated with requests for legal help from service members about the legality of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The service members who have contacted us are as diverse as our armed forces. They are officers, enlisted, men, women, aviators, Special Forces, chaplains, commanders and JAGs. But they all share one thing in common: Each has a sincere religious objection to the COVID-19 vaccine.