OMAHA, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) – An Ohio judge has extended a temporary injunction allowing unvaccinated airmen to work, just days after they filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force.
On July 27, Judge Matthew McFarland with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Western Division published his ruling granting 36 Nebraska and Kansas airmen relief from the Air Force’s vaccine mandate, as reported by KETV NewsWatch 7.
“Due to the systematic nature of what the Court views as violations of Airmen’s constitutional rights to practice their religions as they please, the Court is well within its bounds to extend the existing preliminary injunction to all Class Members,” the injunction read.
“You’re taught from a very young age that no matter who you are, you stand up for what you believe in,” Master Sgt. Josh Welter, an unvaccinated airman stationed in Nebraska, told KETV NewsWatch 7.
“Men and women in the service have been fighting this fight under-wraps and not in the public eye,” he added. “To get my story out and to share the persecution we’ve gone through over the last year — is great and I’m glad that relief and stress has been taken off servicemembers’ shoulders.”
This decision comes just days after the 36 unvaccinated airmen filed a lawsuit in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against the Air Force’s mandatory vaccination policy after being refused religious exemptions. The case is slated to be heard in September.
The Air Force boasts a 97% vaccination rate. While 9,665 religious exemptions requests in the U.S. Air Force have been filed, only 118, or about 1.2%, have been approved.
According to the lawsuit, “The Airmen are now being denied the very liberty they pledged to protect. Each has a sincere religious objection to receiving a COVID-19 vaccination.”
“It has no place in the United States of America where we founded this country on religious freedom,” stated Kris Kobach, the attorney who represents the airmen.
“They’ve granted a handful to people, but only ones who’re already leaving the Air Force. They haven’t granted a single one purely based on the religious exemption request,” Kobach said.
According to Kobach, the cases may be merged and be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
If the Air Force allows them to remain unvaccinated, the airmen have agreed to partake in testing, isolation, remote work, social distancing, masking, or other requirements.
Currently, every available COVID-19 vaccine either contains aborted fetal cells or has been tested on fetal cell lines.
Biologist and author Pamela Acker stated that babies used in vaccine research and production must be alive at the time of tissue extraction. She also revealed that the babies are denied anesthetics and thereby subjected to torture before ultimately being killed.
Dr. Stanley Plotkin, considered the Godfather of Vaccines, admitted that, “Hundreds if not thousands of babies were aborted in the process of bringing vaccines to market.”
In a 2020 interview, prominent theologian and exorcist Father Chad Ripperger described abortion-tainted vaccines as “ongoing theft” of babies’ bodies.