How Religious Exemptions for Vaccines Work

In May, Greg Locke, the right-wing evangelical head pastor of Tennessee's Baptist Global Vision Bible Church, told a cheering congregation that "elites" were trying to push an unsafe vaccine on the public while injecting themselves with sugar water. "I know some of you, like, 'My goodness! What am I gonna -- my boss told me that if I don't get the vaccination that I'm gonna lose my job,'" he said. "I can write you a religious exemption, and we will sue their stinkin' pants off!"