Froedtert said that the withdrawn exemptions affect less than 1 percent of its staff, adding, "We continue to allow valid medical exemptions and sincerely held religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine."

In fall 2021, AG Equipment mandated that all workers receive a COVID-19 vaccine, stating that no exemptions were allowed. “Nonetheless, several employees requested exemptions based on their religious beliefs," EEOC said.

There are several different types of religious exemptions, but the focus in the Ruddock report is on religious schools.

Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill on June 13 that repealed the religious exemption to vaccines.

None from the Army National Guard or Army Reserve have received an exemption. That leaves 6,535 applications for a permanent religious exemption yet to be reviewed by the service.

A lawsuit challenging the removal of religious exemptions is currently pending before Connecticut courts.

Department of Justice said in a court filing that it intends to defend an exemption for religious schools and universities from an anti-discrimination federal law.

Pritzker, a Democrat, said it wants to bar individuals from citing the Health Care Right of Conscience Act for religious-based vaccine exemptions.

Smith, the Supreme Court held that the free exercise clause does not require religious exemptions from neutral, generally applicable laws even when those laws interfere with religious practices.

According to the Education Department, the rules expanded eligibility for the religious exemption to any educational institution "controlled by a religious organization," and eliminated a requirement that faith-based institutions seeking an exemption

“This attack on religious liberty must be stopped and investigated. No federal bureaucrat should be able to wield such massive power and ignore government regulations to target an organization based on their religious beliefs."

New York City is canceling all large events through September as part of measures to prioritize city blocks for public use, but will exempt demonstrations and religious events, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on July 9.

"The IRS was wrong to deny tax-exempt status based on the false belief that the Bible somehow only belongs to one political party. The IRS still has a long way to go to ensure religious liberty for all.”

Compulsory vaccination schedules for school attendance, even with limited exemptions for religious and medical reasons, are an especially controversial experiment in school-based social engineering.

Burnham Wants 'Careful Debate' on Knives Burnham also said there might be a need to revisit the legal exemption that allows Sikh men to carry ceremonial daggers, known as kirpans, which are part of their religious faith.

Civil liberties advocates oppose President Joe Biden's proposed rescission of a Trump-era broadening of a regulatory exemption protecting religious employers from being forced to hire individuals who don't share the organization's faith views or practices

The appeals court also said that keeping medical exemptions in place while repealing religious exemptions means New York is treating secular conduct more favorably than religious beliefs, in part because medical exemptions require annual recertification

exemption—by eliminating that exemption."

In the fall of 2025, the EEOC said UT-Battelle was paying more than $2.8 million to settle allegations that the University of Tennessee research laboratory discriminated against employees by rejecting requests for religious exemptions from the vaccine

He said removing the religious exemption would merely clarify the law while maintaining “full constitutional protection” for freedom of religion and expression.

Supreme Court, Kaul asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a different approach—not by applying the exemption to Catholic Charities, but by striking the religious exemption from state law altogether.

The nation's highest court’s rulings ranged from religious exemptions to reverse discrimination. Trump is doubling down on his debt ceiling demands while publicizing his agreement with a Democratic senator.

The ruling noted that Castillo’s “sincere religious belief” should have been sufficient grounds for an exemption from taking the vaccine.

She said the current religious exemption created “interpretive ambiguity that allowed the provision to be invoked in ways Parliament never intended.”

The court said WestJet was required under the Canadian Human Rights Act to accommodate religious exemption.

"Why would the Prime Minister rather sabotage his own bill than put an end to the religious exemption?" said Normandin. Fraser replied that it's "essential" that Bill C-9 be adopted by the House of Commons.

A number of the intervenors support the defendant's stance on maintaining the religious exemption.

over the years, "so parents have only the conscientious and religious exemptions available to protect their children from harm."

An analysis of 12 such religious exemption requests submitted to the Army found that it took 192 days on average for each request to get processed, more than double the 90 days mandated by the Army.

Exemptions are granted in all 50 states on medical grounds. Most states also allow exemptions for religious reasons.