{"id":121341,"date":"2022-01-04T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121341"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:09:40","slug":"us-judge-blocks-seals-from-punishment-for-refusing-the-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121341","title":{"rendered":"US Judge blocks SEALS from punishment for refusing the vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=121342\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-121342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lloyd-Austin-COVID-2021-and-2022-248x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lloyd-Austin-COVID-2021-and-2022-248x333.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lloyd-Austin-COVID-2021-and-2022-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lloyd-Austin-COVID-2021-and-2022.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has ordered the US Department of Defense to not punish Navy SEALs, and other special forces service members, for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. This involves the service members refusing the vaccine for religious purposes. If these servicemembers are willing to sacrifice to protect these freedoms, they should not be denied these freedoms. This is one of the undercurrents driving the arguments of those who support this decision.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From NBC news:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms,&#8221; the judge wrote in a 26-page decision.<\/p>\n<p>The service members had faced a range of military discipline actions for refusing the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>First Liberty Institute, a legal organization dedicated to defending U.S. religious freedoms which represented the plaintiff service members, hailed the ruling as a victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America&#8217;s values,&#8221; said Mike Berry, the institute&#8217;s general counsel, said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon officials could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling marks the latest salvo in a string of legal fights over Covid-19 vaccine mandates ordered by President Joe Biden that have proven deeply controversial among conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NBC news has the link to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/us-judge-blocks-punishment-navy-seals-refused-vaccine-rcna10822\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has ordered the US Department of Defense to not punish Navy SEALs, and &hellip; <a title=\"US Judge blocks SEALS from punishment for refusing the vaccine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121341\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Judge blocks SEALS from punishment for refusing the vaccine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,639,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-vaccine","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121343,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121341\/revisions\/121343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}