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A Coast Guard Oxymoron

I just read an article from the Epoch Times that seems antithetical to the spirit that should rightly accompany Veteran’s Day.

Newly published images show the digital tool that the U.S. Coast Guard has been utilizing to swiftly deny requests for exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The digital tool, known as the Religious Accommodations Appeal Generator (RAAG), enables Coast Guard officials to select from a pre-populated list of 25 reasons a request is submitted and quickly produce a document denying a request.

As of Sept. 23, the Coast Guard has approved just 12 religious exemption requests and denied another 1,231.

Plaintiffs in the case said the only approvals that have been given were to members set to leave the service.

These startling accusations are from a court case lodged by more than 130 Coast Guard members that alleges the vaccine mandate violates the U.S. Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits the government from “substantially burden[ing] a person’s exercise of religion” by imposing pressure on a person to “modify his behavior and to violate his beliefs.”

It is alleged that those who knew best in the Coast Guard used a preprinted set of responses with set phrases that they then used to deny individual exemption requests. 

Denial letters used the same “magic words” without the individualized treatment required by the RFRA, according to the complaint.

It is also alleged that the Coast Guard has also created a guide for chaplains who interview members seeking religious accommodation that instructs the chaplains to ask questions that are designed “to manipulate the service member seeking an accommodation into discussing politics rather than religion and then using that prompted discussion as an excuse to find the request for an accommodation was not sincere.”

To me, it seems like an oxymoron that “those who knew best” in the Coast Guard did their best to apply the motto of the U.S. Coast Guard: “Semper Paratus” – “Always Ready” (to screw anyone who disagrees!)

11/11/22

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