Ohio Woman Sues Columbus Hospital for Refusing Religious Exemption to COVID Vaccination
February 4, 2023 | Ohio
A Pickerington woman is suing Nationwide Children’s Hospital, saying she was wrongfully fired because she refused to get the COVID-19 immunization. She asserts that the hospital ought to have honored the request for a religious exemption she made as a Christian.
Invoking the violation of her civil rights, Tina Moore filed a federal civil complaint in U.S. District Court in Columbus.
She claims in the lawsuit that she was a surgical scheduler for the hospital for 24 years.
By the middle of March 2022, the hospital required all personnel to be fully immunized. Moore argues in the lawsuit that she requested a religious exemption because the vaccine violates her “sincerely held” Christian religious convictions.
Moore’s lawsuit insists that although the hospital granted other employees religious exemptions, they rejected her request.
The lawsuit states that in March, allegedly, hospital employees sent her an email claiming that she “failed to provide sufficient information showing that her religious belief, practice or observance prohibited her from receiving a COVID-19 vaccination.”…(Excerpt from The Star News Network)
