Employee Suspended From His Job After Refusing to Get Vaccinated Shares His Story

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 vaccine mandates are wreaking havoc across the country as employees are forced to get vaccinated or possibly risk losing their jobs. Employees' religion-based objections to vaccination are clashing with those mandates, and often, the mandate wins out.

Hunter Creger was suspended from his job at a Colorado-based spacecraft launch service after he refused the vaccine on religious grounds.

"It was awful," Creger explains. "These are people that I work for, and that I've developed a relationship with, and they're telling me that … . They walked me out the door. They had security walk me out the door because I didn't want to take the shot."

Creger joins the show to share his story and to offer advice to others who find themselves in circumstances similar to his.

We also cover these stories:

The Biden administration insists that mandating COVID-19 vaccines and testing for employees of larger companies is necessary to keep the public safe.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signs legislation amending state law to make it more difficult for Illinoisans to refuse to be vaccinated.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra refuses to address GOP accusations that he violated federal conscience protections and worked at "the behest of the abortion lobby."

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0:00.0	This is the daily signal podcast for Wednesday, November 10th. I'm Mary Margaret Olehem.
0:11.0	And I'm Virginia Allen. COVID-19 vaccine mandates have caused ripples across the country
0:17.1	as employees are forced to become vaccinated or possibly lose their jobs. Employees' religious
0:24.0	beliefs surrounding vaccines are clashing with mandates. And oftentimes, the mandates
0:29.6	are winning out. Hunter Krieger is a federal worker who was suspended from his job after
0:35.3	he refused the vaccine on religious grounds. He joins the show today to share his story
0:41.8	and offer advice to others who are going through the same thing.
0:46.1	But before we get to Doug's conversation with Hunter, let's hit the top news stories
0:50.2	of the day.
1:02.8	In a late Monday filing, President Joe Biden's administration said that legally mandating COVID-19
1:08.7	vaccines and testing for larger companies is necessary to keep the public safe. Arguing
1:14.4	that Republican states challenging law have not yet proven that their claims outweigh the
1:19.0	harms of halting the mandate. The 5th United States Circuit Court of Appeals had temporarily
1:24.8	blocked Biden's mandate Saturday when three judges appointed by Republican presidents
1:29.4	cited grave statutory and constitutional issues with the mandate.
1:34.7	Biden's Department of Justice argued that stopping the mandate would likely cost dozens
1:38.9	or even hundreds of lives per day.
1:41.6	Illinois Governor JB Fritzker and Illinois Democrats have amended the state's constitution
1:47.5	to make it more challenging for citizens to refuse to be vaccinated.
1:52.4	The amendment changes the 1978 Health Care Right of Conscious Act. The Act was originally
1:59.4	passed to protect medical professionals who refused to participate in certain medical procedures
2:05.9	because of personal beliefs. Illinois citizens who do not want to be vaccinated have leaned
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