The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asbury Theological Seminary filed suit against the Biden administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) over its COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that businesses with 100 or more workers must require vaccination or regular testing for employees, with fines set at $14,000 per violation.
A press release from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — which is also representing The Daily Wire in its lawsuit against the administration — explained that Biden cannot dictate employment practices to religious institutions.
In the lawsuit, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, ADF attorneys represent The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asbury Theological Seminary. The suit alleges that the Biden administration lacks jurisdiction to dictate employment practices to religious institutions, lacks constitutional and statutory authority to issue the employer mandate, and that the mandate failed to meet the required procedural hurdles.
In short, the federal government cannot coerce individuals nationwide to undergo medical treatment, and it lacks authority to conscript employers to compel that result. The lawsuit takes no position on any COVID-19 vaccine or whether any person should make the personal decision to receive it.
“It is unacceptable for the government to force religious institutions to become coercive extensions of state power. We have no choice but to push back against this intrusion of the government into matters of conscience and religious conviction,” explained Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler. “This institution exists for the purpose of educating ministers for churches. This seminary must not be forced to stand in for the government in investigating the private health decisions of our faculty and employees in a matter involving legitimate religious concerns.”
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