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Catholic discrimination?

NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana declined to dismiss a pest control company’s employee’s religious discrimination lawsuit filed after he refused to get a mandated Covid-19 vaccination. He says he was fired despite his Catholic faith, which allegedly keeps him from being injected from a vaccine derived from aborted fetal cell lines, and that his manager told him “The Pope wants you to take it.”

Read the ruling here.

Read the complaint here.

Categories / Briefs, Civil Rights, Employment, Religion

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