Best of 2021 | God Doesn’t Want Me Vaccinated

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in September 2021. Who are the people seeking a religious exemption to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate? What are their religious claims? And how do workplaces decide who has a real claim to belief versus a convenient letter from a pastor-for-hire? Guest: Ruth Graham, reporter for The New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, Davis Land, and Carmel Delshad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Hey listeners, happy holidays.
0:32.4	I'm going to keep sharing episodes that were some of my favorites
0:35.6	from the year that just was.
0:37.6	Today, I'm sharing an episode from back in September.
0:41.1	That's when COVID vaccine mandates were just starting to roll out in earnest.
0:46.9	And there were these holdouts, people who were desperately trying to avoid the shot.
0:52.0	Back then, I talked to Ruth Graham from The New York Times
0:54.8	about a very specific type of holdout,
0:58.0	those that were trying to use religion as their get out of vaccine free card.
1:07.1	For the last few weeks, Ruth Graham,
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