Laying the groundwork for the loss of an accomodation

[Brad & Linda]

I found this article about people falsely claiming religious exemptions for vaccination requirements very troubling for the future of legislatively accomodating the religious beliefs of people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_re_us/vaccine_skeptics

I know that one of the stories you hear from people who object to accomodating the religious beliefs of prisoners is the prisoners who claim things like their faith requires them to eat filet mignon or other absurd things.  In response, the case for the accomodation of LEGITIMATE religious beliefs has been hurt.

I could see the argument being made that, if people are going to claim religious beliefs they don't possess in order to not have to get vaccinations, then there shouldn't be any religious exemptions offered.

Brad
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