I keep hearing about religious exemption, but was curious as to the specifics of it. What if they don't formally belong to a church group? Do they have to formally join a denomination which has done some sort of official paperwork for it be grounds for exemption in a legal sense? Or do we simply state it on whatever paper is given to us with a bible verse? etc. I have no idea how this is supposed to work. I'm not at that point yet, but should it happen tomorrow, next week, month, etc I'd like to have a better idea.
Have anyone of you hear already done this? What exactly did you have to do, etc? It doesn't have to be for covid either. It could be for something else, as this isn't the first time religious exemption has been needed.
Specifically in the context of a workplace. It could be public sector or private company.
One thing this "pandemic" has proven is that there's no exemption for Christians and that collectively Christians are so weak and fragmented that they offer almost no opposition to the secular state anymore. Usually the Old Order Mennonite / Amish are treated with some special consideration, but not this time around:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-mennonites-section-22-order-1.5822247
Fuck me nothing makes me appreciate the Jews quite like christians trying to write a text that sounds legal in nature. For god sake get someone who's name ends in steen to rewrite that contractual disaster
https://www.jccf.ca/mandatory-covid-vaccine-faqs/
No
While personally I think all delusions of a god are proof of mental incompetence how the system works is actually more fucked up in Canada.
You need to have a deep and profound belief to your convections regardless of denomination of actual religion. In effect as long as you can back any part of it up its good for the courts. But its only good for the courts and only at your expense.
So you can hold whatever belief your mind wants but it only applies after the fact. After your boss fires your bitch ass you can lodge a case against them and sue for damages based on the false dismissal (constructive or otherwise) and in a court of law prove your profound belief and how they discriminated against it.
Religion doesn't exempt you from shit! it might provide you a means to compensation after the fact but the legal expenses to get to it are yours to bare.