West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Orders Religious Exemptions for Childhood Vaccines
New West Virginia Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced an executive order establishing a religious exemption for childhood vaccination requirements that he says is necessary to clarify residents’ rights under a 2023 religious freedom law. In 2023, previous Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed the Equal Protection for Religion Act, which updated state law by “forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise of religion; forbidding government from treating religious conduct more restrictively than any conduct of reasonably comparable risk; (and) forbidding government from treating religious conduct more restrictively than comparable conduct because of alleged economic need or benefit.” Announced during the first news conference of Morrisey’s administration as one of 10 executive orders addressing a range of issues, the vaccine order directs state health officials to establish a process for parents to request religious or conscience-based objections to subjecting their children to state-mandated vaccines as a condition of enrolling them in public school, and directs those objections to be honored, with a “writing signed by the objector” being sufficient proof. https://www.infowars.com/posts..../west-virginia-gov-p
