Are You Willing to Fight for Religious Freedom?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns religious freedom. In his article in The Daily Signal, Tyler O’Neil stated that it was “the first in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today,” and there will be two more installments. The issue in the first installment combines religious freedom with COVID-19. 

Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, represents Americans in religious freedom cases who have been turned away from hospitals because they refuse to take a vaccine for COVID-19.

“It’s disgraceful to put anyone on medical death row simply because they’re not willing to take a very controversial experimental vaccine, which is now proven to be very counterproductive,” Dacus tells “The Daily Signal” podcast in an interview conducted in February at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention here.

Some of the Pacific Justice Institute’s clients need organ transplants, he says, but “a minority of hospitals” are denying them.

“Most say no problem, you don’t have to be vaxxed, but these few out there are saying yes, you have to, and it just so happens we discovered they have contracts with Big Pharma,” Dacus says.

The lawyer argues that “more than 99% of those in the hospital with COVID-19, with serious conditions, are people who were vaxxed. The non-vaxxed are not in the hospitals, and yet [a minority of hospitals] continue to push it.”

“We’re defending people based on their sincerely held religious beliefs and convictions, and – needless to say – we’re making great progress and saving thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of jobs for brothers and sisters in Christ across the nation,” Dacus says. “There has been a more than a 13,000% increase in the number of 12- to 19-year-olds who have myocarditis, a very serious heart inflammation disease.”

O’Neil continued his article by citing a 2022 finding in the British Medical Journal of “net harm” being done to young adults by booster shots. According to Dacus, Christians do not have to have particular doctrine or be part of certain churches. They just “have to have a sincerely held religious belief or conviction” against vaccine mandates to apply for an exemption to shots. One valid conviction is to be against vaccines that made with aborted embryos.

Davos also defended “the religious freedom of Christians who refuse to support gender ideology.” Davos also described the Southern Poverty Law Center as “far-left smear factory” because they named his law firm an “anti-LGBTQ hate group” and classed it with the Ku Klux Klan.