‘Woke’ Disney is now facing a lawsuit over its authoritarian approach to religious exemption requests to vaccination and masking policies, firing anyone who goes against their mask and forced vaccination mandates.
But these three former Disney employees won’t back down without a fight. They have sued the company and a subsidiary after they say they were fired for refusing to wear a face-covering at work and not getting vaccinated for COVID-19 on religious grounds.
Barbara Andreas, Stephen Cribb, and Adam Pajer worked at Walt Disney World between seven to 20 years before getting fired, according to the lawsuit.
In 2021, the plaintiffs submitted religious exemption requests over the COVID-19 vaccine, citing Biblical scripture in their requests, the lawsuit filed on June 30 read.
In November 2021, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prohibited private employers from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine and allowed employees to choose from numerous exemptions, such as health or religious concerns.
Andreas had argued that the mandates violated her Christian religious beliefs, citing, among other issues, that the vaccine was made with aborted fetal tissue. She had worked for the company for 17 years when they fired her.
Here’s what Andreas wrote in the lawsuit:
“Religious creed includes my dress and my grooming practices, including what I put on my head or face. Wearing a face covering is an affront of my Christian beliefs. Further, participating in a medical experiment, such as covid testing or vaccines, is also a violation of my religious beliefs.”
Disney denied Andreas’s vaccine exemption on Dec. 29, 2021, while Cribb only received an auto-generated email in October 2021 that said his request was under review, according to the lawsuit. All three were fired between March and June this year, according to the lawsuit.
Disney said that “after careful review of the information you provided, we are unable to conclude that you are prevented from wearing a face cover due to a sincerely held religious belief, practice or observance.”
The report noted:
“The lawsuit claims that Disney’s ‘augmented protocols’ that were forced on nonvaccinated employees consisted of ‘harsh isolation and restrictions’ that caused ‘serious breathing’ and made it ‘nearly impossible to find a compliant manner and location in which to eat or drink while on shift.’”
Sources: TheGatewayPundit, The News & Observer
