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Why Is Everyone Asking for Religious Vaccine Exemptions? | The Daily Show - YouTube
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every day more and more companies are
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announcing a vaccine mandate for their
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employees
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and if you work at one of those
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companies and you don't want to comply
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there are a couple of options for you
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you can find a new job you can hide in
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the office bathroom until 2027 or you
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can follow the hot new trend claiming a
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religious exemption
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a growing number of people are claiming
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religious reasons to dodge covet vaccine
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mandates in washington thousands of
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state workers are doing it 419 d.c fire
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and ems employees are asking for a
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religious exemption that's about one out
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of five of the department's employees
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one of the largest districts in the
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country montgomery county their public
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school is now facing a lawsuit for not
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having a religious exemption this
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morning at least seven united airlines
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employees filing lawsuits against the
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airline over its vaccine policy saying
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their religious exemptions were denied
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the nba denied the request of golden
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state warrior andrew wiggins to be
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exempt from vaccine requirements the 26
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year old based the request on a
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religious exemption as the covid19
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vaccine mandate deadline for city of los
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angeles employees looms 2600 lapd
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officers said they will seek religious
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exemptions to refuse the vaccine that's
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right 2600 la police officers are trying
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to get a religious exemption to avoid
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getting the shot
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and black people heard this and they
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were like hey can we get an exemption
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too we also have a deep belief in not
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getting shot but this is where we're at
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right now countless people across
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america who have already been vaccinated
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by the way four million other diseases
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are now professing a very let's say
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convenient religious belief against
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taking the covet vaccine
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and you might be seeing this and
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thinking damn
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religious exemptions seem like a really
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bad idea and maybe
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maybe it's turned into that now but it
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wasn't always this way
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in fact we'll look at how a good idea
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went so wrong in our brand new segment
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red white and broken
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for most of human history religious
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freedom was not a thing most governments
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had a state religion and if you didn't
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believe in it you either prayed very
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quietly or you burned at the stake very
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loudly but america's founders didn't
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want a country torn apart by religious
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conflict so when they wrote the
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constitution they guaranteed freedom of
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religion in the first amendment that's
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why they put it at the top of the
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constitution because of how important
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they thought it was
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and also because they knew nobody reads
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past page two
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now this was an incredibly progressive
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idea at the time
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and today we think of it as one of the
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greatest ideas from that era
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i mean it's certainly much better than
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the idea that you shouldn't leave the
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house without seven layers of clothing
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it's summer at least take off the wig
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you freak
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so part of that religious freedom meant
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that the government can't force you to
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do things that your religion forbids you
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from doing for instance if you're a
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devout quaker you don't have to fight in
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a war if you're amish you don't have to
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send your kids to high school if you're
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a latter-day saint you don't have to
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come into work until later in the day
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but that's not what it is
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yeah but steve told me that that's why
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he comes in at 3 30. god damn it steve
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but when vaccines became widespread it
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turned out some religious people had
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objections to those too
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and that's when things started to get
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messy not even really till the 20th
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century that we start to see people
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using religion as a basis for opposing a
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vaccine and it doesn't really pick up
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steam until the 1950s and 60s it all
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takes root in the 1964 civil rights act
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the law essentially requires employers
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to make reasonable accommodations for
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employees who can't fulfill a job
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requirement due to religious beliefs but
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the law doesn't give a lot of guidance
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when it comes to defining religion
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according to rules laid out by the equal
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employment opportunity commission
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a religious belief does not have to be
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recognized by an organized religion and
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it can be new unusual or seem illogical
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or unreasonable to others in 2012 a u.s
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district court ruled that veganism was a
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sincerely held religious belief which
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gave one employee a pass from a flu shot
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yeah
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you can laugh
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but i can see how veganism could be
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considered a religion
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i mean think about it they're super
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dedicated they follow strict rules and
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they think anyone who doesn't share
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their beliefs should go to hell
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you know in fact now that i think about
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it
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my vegan friends talk way more about
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being vegan than my christian friends
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talk about jesus
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like i don't even know what church dave
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goes to but i know exactly what mariah
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had for lunch
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the point is america got into a
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situation where it was giving exemptions
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for religious beliefs while being very
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open-minded about what a religious
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belief was
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and look
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there are good reasons why you don't
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want the government picking apart every
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religion like it's a cheating boyfriend
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on tick tock you'd rather have the
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government say veganism is a religion
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then have the government say veganism
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isn't a religion and also neither is
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islam
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unfortunately though the flip side of
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being that tolerant is that people can
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take advantage of the system
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you know it's like how when airlines
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didn't define what an emotional support
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animal was at first you had genuinely
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traumatized people bringing their pets
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on the plane
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but then before long i was fighting an
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alligator for an arm rest can you tell
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me again what this animal is helping you
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with because he's giving me anxiety man
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so because the government chose not to
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nitpick what a religious belief could be
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it didn't take long for the idea of
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religious exemptions to start showing
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cracks
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because of vaccines we were able to do
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something that is hardly ever done
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which is to actually eliminate a disease
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we eliminated measles in the united
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states in the year 2000 and all of a
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sudden everything changed state of
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emergency that's been declared as the
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nation faces one of the worst measles
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outbreaks in decades in 2000 about one
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percent of oregon kindergarteners were
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not fully vaccinated for philosophical
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or religious reasons last year it jumped
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to seven percent the highest rate in the
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country in vermont there was a 640
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percent increase in kindergarten
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children with religious vaccine
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exemptions the fact that we have had so
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many cases in 2018
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is really quite discouraging this is a
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completely avoidable situation oh man
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poor dr fauci this guy has spent his
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whole career
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trying to convince people that dying
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from disease is bad
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covered measles
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i bet if you went back to the 14th
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century there was a dr fauci begging
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people not to get the black plague
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people please
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don't have sex with those rats this is a
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very avoidable situation
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so thanks to those religious exemptions
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measles became the throwback fad that
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nobody asked for
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which is not fair to everyone else and
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it's definitely also not fair to measles
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i mean think about it measles has been
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retired all these years and then
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suddenly it has to start working again
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and all because kindergarteners have
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philosophical objections to the vaccine
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i mean i'm pretty sure the only
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philosophy that a kindergartener has is
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we should turn on paw patrol
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i mean think about how crazy it is that
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in america you can send your kids to
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school with measles right but if they
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bring peanut butter with them their
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little ass is getting thrown out in the
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snow
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and it turns out that the same way sarah
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palin was just a trial run for donald
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trump the measles anti-vaxxers were just
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a trial run for covert because now even
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more people are seeking religious
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exemptions from vaccines
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and they're finding a lot of help from
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their fellow worshipers online we found
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websites that help people request
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exemptions one urge include words like
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sacred holy worship blessed and others
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thousands of facebook users are actually
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teaching each other how to obtain
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religious exemptions from the vaccine
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these are folks who are swapping tips
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who are showing each other how to evade
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filters on instagram the lead pastor of
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destiny christian church issues an open
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invitation to anyone seeking religious
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exemption if you feel morally
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compromised by taking this vaccine we
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have a form for you numerous churches
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across the country are offering the same
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we found a self-described evangelist
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offering vaccine exemption letters to
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anyone who wants one curious our
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producer emailed her he's fully
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vaccinated already by the way she
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offered to write letters not just for
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him but three family members once he
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paypaled her at least twenty five
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dollars ten dollar minimum donation for
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each additional family member after that
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this woman says she's a christian our
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producer is jewish no questions asked
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about religion or medicine or anything
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wow okay
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that's not exactly the inter-religious
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harmony that i've been hoping for
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and as shocking as it may seem i think
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it's pretty obvious that some religious
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leaders are going to try to keep people
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unvaccinated i mean after all they make
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money from getting the letters and then
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they make a ton of money from doing the
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funerals
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but still it doesn't take a genius to
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see how the great idea of religious
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freedoms
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has been corrupted
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you know the question used to be
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do you have a sincere religious belief
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and now it's do you have a paypal
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account
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and the reason that people need to work
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so hard to cheat the system with fake
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religious beliefs is that basically
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every actual religion
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has told its followers to get thine ass
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vaccinated faith organizations have come
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out to say the benefits of getting the
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vaccine far outweigh any ethical
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concerns about its development jewish
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scholars say the torah requires it
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muslim leaders endorse it too leaving
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legitimate religious excuses to skip the
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shots far and few between today's sermon
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or khutba in islam is imam karayasam's
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fact check for the faithful this vaccine
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is absolutely halal the covet 19
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vaccines got a holy endorsement on
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wednesday
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pope francis told reporters that
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humanity has a history of friendship
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with vaccines and urged everyone to get
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their shots in india the dalai lama
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getting his first coronavirus vaccine
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shot the tibetan spiritual leader urging
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his followers to do the same have
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courage
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to take
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this injection yeah leaders of
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christianity judaism islam and buddhism
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all agree that there's nothing in
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religion that stops people from getting
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the vaccine
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now we just need beyonce to put out a
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statement and then all religions are
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covered but think about how crazy it is
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to have all the major religions saying
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there's no religious objection to the
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vaccine these guys don't agree on
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anything
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hell buddhists believe that the middle
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seat of an airplane is one of the best
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free yourself from the desire for a nile
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seat
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the only window that matters is the
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window in your mind
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now if you'll excuse me i need to go to
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the bathroom excuse me excuse me sorry
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excuse me sorry watch watch the rope
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please sorry excuse excuse me can you
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get out of the way so
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that's how religious exemptions became
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red white and broken a fantastic idea
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that was once the foundation for a
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society where people could pray the way
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they wish to pray has now walked into an
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excuse that people can use just to avoid
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the rules
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i mean the one upside
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is now
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i get to steal people's cars i get to
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eat fish on a plane cut in line
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everywhere i go and even punch toddlers
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in the street and if people say hey
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trevor stop being an i can say
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yo yo yo i'm not being an
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these are just my religious beliefs
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