The exemption process is about personal belief and requires no higher religious authority, just that a chaplain endorses following an interview.They're about to get a rude awakening that they don't get to make the rules at an individual level.
Do you have any senior religious leaders (e.g. Cardinals, Bishops, etc.) saying that taking the covid19 vaccine is against the faith?
You want a good reason we shouldn’t hold people accountable for following legal orders? Seems like your stance is the special circumstance requiring justification. What is so special about this specific order that disagreement is grounds for leaving early? Once you’ve set that precedent, what other orders are you cool not following?Here's a question, though. Can anyone give me a good reason why they will not just tell everyone that if they don't want the vax they can just repay any bonus money at the prorated amount and get out with an honorable discharge? Sure, it's bad for the Navy (retention issues, lost money training folks, etc.), but we waste way more money than that just giving it away in humanitarian relief to the f'ing Taliban and other countries who don't even like us. Seems like the humanitarian thing to do here, without question, is let people out if they feel that strongly about it, rather than forcing them to do an irreversible medical procedure that they don't want or face a possible OTH.