Cut the Shit and Vaccinate Your Kid
LatestA Staten Island mother has filed a lawsuit this week in Brooklyn Federal Court agains the city Department of Education for not granting her five-year-old daughter a religious exemption from vaccinations, claiming that her First Amendment rights have been violated. But school officials called bullshit on her religious reasons, and barred her kid from attending classes because the law requires that public school children receive vaccinations, as it’s a health issue. And they’re fucking right.
Dina Check says that, as a Catholic, she believes:
[Li]fe is a gift from God and the body is a marvelous work of divine creation to be reverenced as a temple of God…To inject invasive and unnatural substances into this divine creation is showing a lack of faith in God and His way.
First of all, having also been raised as a Catholic, I know that, while Catholicism has some issues when it comes to adapting to modernity, childhood vaccinations aren’t one of them. (Also, if you’re following “God’s way,” why not throw caution to the wind in every regard and let your little girl walk home from school alone, hoping God will protect her from a kidnapping. Or don’t bother to cook her chicken all the way through, hoping God will protect her from salmonella.) School officials knew this, too, stating that Check didn’t substantiate that she has “genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to immunization.”