Fifteen members of Congress sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following a leaked IG report citing the DOD's 'concerning denials of religious liberty' over vaccines.
has overwhelmingly rejected most of the approximately 24,000 service member requests for religious exemptions to the vaccine.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before a House subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2022.that DOD did approve were given to service members on the verge of retirement, and that non-religious exemptions were approved"at a far higher rate than religious exemptions." The letter further noted that the IG's report found"denial memorandums we reviewed generally did not reflect an individualized analysis.""As the memo explains, the described blanket denial of religious accommodation violates DOD Instruction 1300.
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