{"id":509846,"date":"2021-09-19T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=509846"},"modified":"2021-09-19T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:23:58","slug":"religious-exemption-to-vaccine-mandates-may-be-difficult-to-obtain-as-amish-case-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=509846","title":{"rendered":"Religious exemption to vaccine mandates may be difficult to obtain, as Amish case shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A recent case, unrelated to the pandemic, illustrates the point. When an Amish community in Minnesota sought a religious exemption from state water control regulations, power-hungry bureaucrats denied the religious exemption, claiming that the group&#8217;s religious beliefs were not sincerely held.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) targeted one of the most traditional Amish communities for failing to comply with a water treatment mandate, it threatened to &#8220;[displace] the Amish from their homes, [move] all their possessions, and [declare] their homes uninhabitable&#8221; if they did not comply. Far from fighting homelessness, the MPCA tried hard to cause it. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/572756-religious-exemption-to-vaccine-mandates-may-be-difficult-to-obtain-as-amish\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/572756-religious-exemption-to-vaccine-mandates-may-be-difficult-to-obtain-as-amish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A recent case, unrelated to the pandemic, illustrates the point. When an Amish community in Minnesota sought a religious exemption from state water control regulations, power-hungry bureaucrats denied the religious exemption, claiming that the group&#8217;s religious beliefs were not sincerely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=509846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}