Ex-Nurse's 'Individualized, Idiosyncratic Religion' Claims Against COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Allowed to Proceed, Judge Rules
“Here, the plaintiff has alleged that a core principle of being ‘Pagan’ is submitting to natural forces and refusing artificial medical aid,” U.S. Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote. “She has asserted that the mRNA technology used to develop some of the COVID-19 vaccines makes them unnatural and impermissible, as distinct from the virus-derived annual flu vaccine. That asserted connection is sufficient to support a plausible claim that accepting at least some of the COVID-19 vaccines would violate a tenet of her idiosyncratic religion.”