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The Covid-19 vaccine will keep you out of heaven and makes you 27 times more likely to get and spread the virus, Logan-based flight attendant claims in suit against United Airlines
By adamg on Thu, 05/18/2023 - 9:35am
Update: Myers withdrew her suit on Aug. 30, 2023.
An Alabama woman who worked as a United flight attendant out of Boston has sued the airline, claiming it violated her religious rights by putting her on unpaid leave and then firing her when she refused to comply with company requirements for Covid-19 shots.
In her suit, filed yesterday in US District Court in Boston, Sheyenne Myers, says her termination violated her rights under both the First Amendment and Massachusetts state law:
In her request, she explained to United that she sincerely believes she cannot inject unknown vaccines into her body and highlighted the fact that the ingredients and chemicals contained in the COVID-19 vaccines were unknown, the effects of the vaccines were unknown, and these variables without more information, precluded her from blindly injecting a substance into her body. Ms. Myers sincerely believes that her body is not to be altered in any way other than through means by which God created or through scientifically proven, safe, and effective manmade and necessary medical intervention. To consume or knowingly inject anything else into her body would constitute a sin and prevent her ability from one day, going to Heaven and sharing that Place with God.
In addition, Myers, who says she was fired in October, 2021, claims the vaccine is worse than useless medically, although she does not cite scientific literature to make that point:
[W]hereas an unvaccinated individual has already contracted COVID-19 and developed natural immunity and antibodies to the virus, a vaccinated person is up to twenty-seven times (27x) more likely to contract coronavirus and transmit it thereafter.
In addition to seeking at least $500,000 in lost wages and damages, Myers is also seeking a jury declaration to United to never do this sort of thing again.
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Should have found a job at TD
Should have found a job at TD Garden instead.
Presumably this numbnut forgot about
the nine or so vaccines she got as a child and so is already precluded from going to heaven.
That's where her case is a bit more interesting
Most suits like this simply say God rejects Covid-19 vaccines, period, because they alter cellular DNA (except they don't) or the plaintiff's body is God's temple, or whatever.
If you look at the complaint, her lawyer isn't saying she objects to all vaccines, just ones that have not been what she considers to be "scientifically proven, safe, and effective."
In other words, God is down with science. Progress marches on, eppur si muove and all that.
Exactly how vaccines are determined to be "scientifically proven," though, is left as an exercise for the reader, since, obviously, the FDA can't make that determination. For reasons.
I'll make the theological argument
It was not her choice to get the childhood vaccines, so she was not violating what she thinks in God's command for her at the time she was vaccinated. At the time she embraced the idea, she would have been penalized in the afterworld if she injected something not God made into herself. I also assume that she would avoid vaccinating her own children if she had any.
And because some people here are a bit slow on the draw, I am not claiming that this way of thinking is good, but it's a lot more common of a way of thinking than people let on. Moreover, there are people whose sincere beliefs on vaccinations dovetail with this theology who are also atheists (more believing that vaccines are unnatural rather than being against God's will.)
The claim that any vaccine makes one 27 times more likely to get whatever the vaccine is supposed to protect against, on the other hand, is a head scratcher.
The devil doesn't need an advocate...
...and I don't think that's a "theological argument". A "theological argument" would be based on some single theology, consistently applied. What you've done here seems more like a pastiche of vague layperson approximations of vaguely heard tidbits that might possibly have a tenuous theological connection because they refer to the G word.
Nice counter
So many words, yet you said nothing.
Upon first reading "The Covid
Upon first reading "The Covid-19 vaccine will keep you out of heaven" I thought, that's a strange way of saying it reduces mortality rates.... then it hit me and I had to laugh. The denial is never going to stop.
We do not worship the same God
The God I was taught about in CCD and parochial school was one of limitless empathy and care for your fellow man.
Jesus took 4 nails for our sins; this clown can take a couple needles to protect her fellow humans.
And if she were truly God fearing (or a biblical literalist as the Alabama connection implies some snake handling church down by the river in a shed) she'd know the scripture tells women to be silent when it comes to preaching.
If she chooses to work for Satan
that's a matter for the religious authorities, not the civil ones.
Yes, Yes, Yes!
Keep these suits based on religious beliefs coming. Flood the courts claiming to do anything and everything on the basis of religious beliefs. I love this!
The connection with United Airlines reminds me of the passenger who wanted to bring her ostrich along because the big bird was her emotional support animal.
The religious freedom claim is becoming an ostrich of emotional support.
There has to be an ancient story that makes the point. Biblical, Aesop's Fables, Hesiod or Ovid some other ancient story teller?
Credulity in the grand old United States is plentiful. Followers of Trump, DeSantis, nearly every person who claims exemption from every law under the sun, because of religious belief.
Exemption from the draft on the basis of religious opposition during the Vietnam war was harder to achieve in the public court of opinion than people using God to justify mental abuse (reparative therapy), sexual violation (Jimmy Swaggart), using cyrtal meth (the cleric who used meth with a male prostitute) or Trump's claim he could murder on 5th Avenue.
If there was a God that obliterated nations for grotesque hypocrisy then the US would now be with the lost continent of Atlantis. Since the US is still here there can not be that kind of deity and therefore religion beliefs can not be anything more than the vapor of weed smoked in a pipe (tobacco or marijuana).
The current majority of Supremes have fallen to a blasphemous worship of Evangelical idols, so they are out of any moral correction. Congress, as long as Republicans keep it in a coffin, is leaderless. And clerics, conservative and liberal, are all too concerned about keeping their jobs than actually pointing out the sartorial quality of the emperor's new clothes.
Perhaps we need a new Jeremiah to point out depraved our standards. But then someone would shoot him or her, defending their right to shoot on the basis of the 2nd Amendment, and defending their right to kill someone who challenged their religious beliefs, on the basis of freedom of religious belief.
Vietnam war
Unsurprisingly, it turned out to matter which religion people were invoking to claim conscientious objector status. A fair number of Quakers' claims were accepted, and Muhammad Ali's (Muslim) famously wasn't.
"Alabama woman" is the new
"Alabama woman" is the new "Florida man"