Religious Exemptions To Vaccines: Who Wants Them And What's Legal
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🗓️ 27 September 2021
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NPR correspondents Andrea Hsu and Shannon Bond explain what the law says about religious exemptions to vaccine rules in the workplace.
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| 0:00.0 | Police officers are used to giving orders. |
| 0:03.6 | Well, now they're being asked to follow them. |
| 0:06.5 | I feel like we've done nothing wrong |
| 0:09.4 | by making a choice not to be vaccinated. |
| 0:12.4 | This past week, a reserve officer in San Jose |
| 0:15.4 | resigned over that city's vaccine mandate |
| 0:18.5 | for its employees, including for first responders. |
| 0:22.0 | The officer Dave Gutiérrez told the local NBC station |
| 0:25.4 | why he didn't want to get a shot. |
| 0:28.3 | To me, it's my faith, my belief in what I know my body |
| 0:35.1 | and what I want to put into it. |
| 0:37.0 | This fight is playing out all across the country |
| 0:40.5 | in Los Angeles. |
| 0:42.2 | Thousands of LAPD employees have told the city |
| 0:45.4 | that they intend to request religious or medical exemptions |
| 0:49.1 | in Massachusetts. |
| 0:50.6 | State troopers want to stop Governor Charlie Baker's |
| 0:53.1 | vaccine mandate, so they're suing. |
| 0:54.9 | And listen to this from last week in Redmond, Washington, |
| 0:57.8 | just outside Seattle. |
| 0:59.2 | OK, hi, I'm super nervous. |
| 1:02.2 | Firefighters and their wives told the city council |
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