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Intro: "Judge Reed O'Connor, the U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, granted a temporary injunction on Monday in response to a lawsuit filed by First Liberty Institute in November on behalf of 35 active-duty SEALs who are Christian and three reservists who are seeking exemption from the vaccine requirement for religious reasons.
- The order prevents the Navy from setting new policies that would allow those who would object for religious reasons to be considered 'non-deployable' or 'disqualified' from Special Operations. - It effectively means the Pentagon can't fire those SEALs for refusing the shot. . .Those who challenged for religious reasons alleged, upon expressing their concerns to other officers, that they were warned that they could suffer serious repercussions for their refusal to follow the mandate, includingbeing snubbed from consideration for Special Operations and deployment missions.
Some Christians have sought vaccine mandates because vaccines have been made with cells derived from aborted fetuses, although religious groups - including the staunchly pro-life Catholic Church, have insisted it is not sinful to receive a COVID vaccine, and has encouraged followers to have one.
Federal judge agrees to temporary injunction for 35 Navy SEALS seeking religious exemption from vaccine mandate and says
'There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment'
Judge Reed O'Connor, from Texas, granted a temporary injunction in response to a lawsuit filed by 35 active-duty SEALs and three reservists in November
The service members, represented by First Liberty Institute, are seeking exemption from President Biden's vaccine mandate for religious reasons
The challengers were warned that they could suffer serious repercussions for their refusal to follow the mandate upon expressing their concerns
Being considered as disqualified for Special Operations and deployment missions is among one of those consequences
More than 99 percent of active-duty Navy service members are fully vaccinated against Covid-19
Reed Charles O'Connor is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He joined the court in 2007 after being ...
Dec 21, 2018 · Judge O'Connor , who has chambers in Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, has become the federal judge that Republican state attorneys general and ...
> 'The Navy service members in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect,' O'Connor wrote in his order. '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.'
> O'Connor said that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on their constitutional and RFRA claims.
> DailyMail.com has contacted the US Navy for comment.
> Some Christians have sought vaccine mandates because vaccines have been made with cells derived from aborted fetuses, although religious groups - including the staunchly pro-life Catholic Church, have insisted it is not sinful to receive a COVID vaccine, and has encouraged followers to have one.
> The lawsuit also cited that the Navy violated the group's religious rights including the Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The first law ensures protects citizens' right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a 'public morals' or a compelling' governmental interest, while the second is 'ensures that interests in religious freedom are protected.'
> O'Connor's order also comes as other U.S Marines face potential discharge or disqualifications for not being vaccinated after the Department of Defense’s mandate on Nov. 28 ordered all active-duty service members to seek vaccination
> In December, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other Republican members of Congress signed an amicus brief, backing the lawsuit.
'Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America's values,' said Mike Berry, General Counsel for First Liberty Institute. 'Punishing SEALs for simply asking for a religious accommodation is purely vindictive and punitive. We're pleased that the court has acted to protect our brave warriors before more damage is done to our national security.'
> Other vaccination rules set in place by the Department of Defense have also been earmarked by other lawsuits before Monday's ruling. However, none of those cases had been granted preliminary orders, loosening the requirements."
The Biden administration's efforts to provide the debt relief to minority producers called for by Congress suffered another legal setback on Friday with an order from the Northern District of Texas prohibiting payments based on race and certifying the case as a class action.
Hold your breath - Faced with crises on an unprecedented scale, our heads are filled with insistent babble.
The trivialisation of public life creates a loop: it becomes socially impossible to talk about anything else.
I’m sure it’s not deliberate. I don’t think anyone, faced with the prospect of systemic environmental collapse, is telling themselves: “Quick, let’s change the subject to charcuterie boards for dogs.” It works at a deeper level than this. It’s a subconscious reflex that tells us more about ourselves than our conscious actions do. The chatter on the radio sounds like the distant signals from a dying star. . ."
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction
Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. . .[...]
Here is what we know. We know that our lives are entirely dependent on complex natural systems: the atmosphere, ocean currents, the soil, the planet’s webs of life. People who study complex systems have discovered that they behave in consistent ways. It doesn’t matter whether the system is a banking network, a nation state, a rainforest or an Antarctic ice shelf; its behaviour follows certain mathematical rules. In normal conditions, the system regulates itself, maintaining a state of equilibrium. It can absorb stress up to a certain point. But then it suddenly flips. It passes a tipping point, then falls into a new state of equilibrium, which is often impossible to reverse . ."
SOME EXAMPLES: The deliberate effort to stop us seeing the bigger picture began in 1953 with a campaign called Keep America Beautiful. It was founded by packaging manufacturers, motivated by the profits they could make by replacing reusable containers with disposable plastic. Above all, they wanted to sink state laws insisting that glass bottles were returned and reused. Keep America Beautiful shifted the blame for the tsunami of plastic trash the manufacturers caused on to “litter bugs”, a term it invented. . .
The corporate focus on litter, amplified by the media, distorts our view of all environmental issues. For example, a recent survey of public beliefs about river pollution found that “litter and plastic” was by far the biggest cause people named. In reality, the biggest source of water pollution is farming, followed by sewage. Litter is way down the list. It’s not that plastic is unimportant. The problem is that it’s almost the only story we know.
Like Keep Britain Tidy, the Keep America Beautiful ad campaign shifted responsibility away from big corporations. Photograph: Alamy
In 2004, the advertising company Ogilvy & Mather, working for the oil giant BP, took this blame-shifting a step further by inventing the personal carbon footprint. It was a useful innovation, but it also had the effect of diverting political pressure from the producers of fossil fuels to consumers. The oil companies didn’t stop there. The most extreme example I’ve seen was a 2019 speech by the chief executive of the oil company Shell, Ben van Beurden. He instructed us to “eat seasonally and recycle more”, and publicly berated his chauffeur for buying a punnet of strawberries in January.
The great political transition of the past 50 years, driven by corporate marketing, has been a shift from addressing our problems collectively to addressing them individually. In other words, it has turned us from citizens into consumers. . .
[...] We will endure only if we cease to consent. The 19th-century democracy campaigners knew this, the suffragettes knew it, Gandhi knew it, Martin Luther King knew it. The environmental protesters who demand systemic change have also grasped this fundamental truth. In Fridays for Future, Green New Deal Rising, Extinction Rebellion and the other global uprisings against systemic environmental collapse, we see people, mostly young people, refusing to consent. What they understand is history’s most important lesson. Our survival depends on disobedience."
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