The following is from The Vaccine Reaction.
A jury awarded a settlement of $687,240 to a woman in Tennessee who was fired from her job at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) for refusing to comply with a Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Of the total amount, $500,000 was for punitive damages levied against BCBST.
Tanja Benton, who worked as a biostatistical research scientist at BCBST from 2005 to 2022, was terminated from her job after her request for a religious exemption to the company’s Covid vaccine mandate was denied. She appealed the decision, but to no avail. She subsequently filed a federal lawsuit against the company.
A judgment order written by Judge Charles Atchley of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee stated:
The jury found that Plaintiff, TANJA BENTON, proved by a preponderance of the evidence that her refusal to receive the Covid vaccination was based upon a sincerely held religious belief.
Religious Exemption Denied Despite No Physical Contact With Patients
In an employment discrimination lawsuit filed in 2022 after she was terminated from her job for non-compliance, Benton, 52, said that she believed the mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) Covid shots were developed with aborted fetus cell lines and stated that she ‘cannot in good conscience consume the vaccine, which would not only defile her body but also anger and dishonor God.’
In addition, the lawsuit explained that the Covid pandemic changed Benton’s work circumstances whereby she worked remotely so she has no physical contact with anyone except for 10-12 clients who she communicated with rarely in person.
Benton also never worked directly with any patients. She said that after she appealed the denial to her request for a religious exemption, a company representative said that there were no exceptions for anyone with her job title and told her to find another job.
Benton’s attorney Doug Hamill said that his client was a non-denominational Christian. He stated that her situation was different than that of healthcare workers that worked with patients:
Health care workers like frontline nurses, they sometimes are mandated to have vaccines as a requirement for their job. But this was different, because my client, as most employees of BlueCross, is not a health care worker. You know, BlueCross is an insurance company. They’re not a direct health care provider. So this was a little bit of an unusual situation.
According to James Lawler, MD of Nebraska Medicine, the mRNA Covid shots do not contain any aborted fetal cells. However, fetal cell lines grown in a laboratory based on aborted fetal cells collected generations ago, were used in testing during research and development of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/NIAID mRNA Covid shots, as well as during production and manufacturing of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Covid vaccine.
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We need a lawsuit and win in the courts for refusing to take the experimental vaccine because of a violation of the Nuremberg Code on ethical experimentation of which we are a signatory. Also Jacobson VS Massachusetts was cited for mandatory vaccination. But Jacobson was also cited in the disgraceful Buck VS Bell decision to sterilize individuals involuntarily against their will. Which became the siren call of the eugenics program. Hitler cited our eugenics program in order to get rid of the Jewish people.
I find this interesting because if we truly have freedom of religion why would we provide a religious exemption? It seems in this case BCBS was just trying to appear in “Compliance” with the law but just like the case were permits were limiting where protestors could go and non-protestors had unrestricted access to areas deemed “Off limits” areas for protestors and SCOTUS ruled against the U.S. why can someone else dictate what my religious convictions, rules, ritual, etc. are? I believe that any job that requires you to put something in your body as a condition of that job needs to detail that specifically prior to hiring. And catch all proclamations aren’t going to work.
Of course–and this needs to be an iron clad law of the nation–you shouldn’t need ANY religion to refuse a medical intervention. Period. My body, my choice, right?