“God wants us to put our faith for disease prevention in him exclusively.” A bit presumptuous on the part of the dad to know what God intended. What if God, in his "mysterious" ways was handling disease prevention by creating the men and women intelligent and persistent enough to develop said vaccines?
His son was removed from his public school classroom on Dec. 23 after city Department of Education officials rejected the father’s appeal of an earlier decision. The city concluded the paperwork he submitted “does not substantiate ... that you hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to immunization,” according to the suit.
The family’s lawyer, Patricia Finn, countered Monday, “It’s our position the parent has a right to refuse.”
The suit seeks to return the boy to school. The father’s 6-year-old son is still attending first-grade classes at the same elementary school because his immunization records may be up to date, the lawyer said.
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The lawyer said the parents’ objections relate to their beliefs that vaccinations are manufactured by manipulating diseases or contain fetal cells and animal blood.
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The boys’ parents filed an affidavit Monday stating they believe that “immunization demonstrates a great lack of faith in the gift of health and the promise of protection that we are given at birth and through baptism we put our child in the hands of the Lord ... God wants us to put our faith for disease prevention in him exclusively.”
Staten Island father sues city, state over school vaccine requirements for son, 4 - NY Daily News
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