Opinion: Religious exemptions to the vaccine should be rare -- but they should exist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment forbids courts from deciding who is right and who is wrong on a disputed question of religious doctrine.
55% : A vaccine mandate that applied generally to everyone and made no provision for any exemptions at all wouldn't violate the First Amendment, because of a 1990 Supreme Court decision that established that laws that apply generally to all people and do not single out religious practices are valid under the First Amendment even if they burden religious practices.
54% : Heretics have as much a claim to religious freedom as the orthodox.

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