Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Faith-based COVID vax exemption: How easily can you claim one, and do some religions truly forbid inoculation?
More than 2,500 LAPD employees plan to seek a religious exemption to LA’s requirement that city workers get the COVID vaccine. That’s roughly a quarter of the department, and more than twice as high as the rest of the city’s workforce.
By Madeleine Brand • • 14m ListenMore than 2,500 LAPD employees plan to seek a religious exemption to LA’s requirement that city workers get the COVID vaccine. That’s roughly a quarter of the department, and more than twice as high as the rest of the city’s workforce.
A person’s faith is deeply personal, and there’s no real way for someone to prove what they sincerely believe. So what’s to stop someone from using a religious exemption even if they don’t really have one?
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Dorit Reiss
law professor at UC Hastings College of the Law
Curtis Chang
co-founder of the group Christians and the Vaccine; former evangelical pastor of the River Church Community in San Jose