Brad Holman and Larry Pardo announced their intentions in a statement to The Washington Post on Friday, writing that the Nationals “pretended” to consider their request for religious exemptions.
while exemption requests were reviewed. That included Holman and Pardo, whose contracts were officially terminated Wednesday, the end of their administrative leave. Their joint statement says the Nationals violated “their rights to free expression and observation of their sincerely held religious beliefs.”The statement adds that Pardo and Holman “could not and will not choose to take the vaccines even if it cost them their jobs, which it ultimately did.
Pfizer and Moderna used cell lines from aborted fetal tissue to test whether the vaccines worked, but the vaccines were not developed from those lines. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine used lab-replicated fetal cells during its production process, but the vaccine does not contain fetal cells.While some groups have opposed or discouraged people from getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, major leaders of organized religions in the United States have endorsed getting a coronavirus vaccine.
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