Tag: religious exemptions
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Religious-Exemption Revocation Laws Challenged in Maine and Beyond
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 3, 2026) — In mid-July, the non-profit We the Patriots USA filed a lawsuit against the state of Maine challenging its 2021 law revoking its religious exemption for compulsory vaccines for school attendance. An eighth-grader was “informed that he could not return to school to start eighth grade this fall because…
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The Fight for Religious Exemptions Continues
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 23, 2026) — In a recent episode of her podcast, “On Call,” Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, MD interviewed Atty. Brian Festa of We the Patriots USA, a non-profit law firm advocating for the restoration of religious exemptions to government-issued mandates for schoolchildren. Early in the interview, Festa presented the argument that…
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Religious Freedom and Rational Law: West Virginia’s Vaccine Exemption Win
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 23, 2025) — On August 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued a letter to West Virginia’s Vaccine for Children (VFC) program providers. The message was clear: the federal Vaccines for Children statute requires states to honor religious exemptions where state law provides them…