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CV NEWS FEED // Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan must pay $12.7 million to a Catholic woman after the health insurance company refused her religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine and then fired her.
World Religion News reported Jan. 3 that the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan’s Southern Division awarded the money to Liza Domski who was a remote employee who had worked for the company for 38 years.
Domski requested the exemption because all of the vaccines available were derived from the fetal cell lines of aborted children. She provided the contact information for her priest, but Blue Cross never reached out to him.
Domski told the court that receiving the vaccine “would be a terrible sin and distance my relationship with God.”
“Our forefathers fought and died for the freedom for each American to practice his or her own religion,” Domski’s attorney, John Marko, said in a statement. “Neither the government nor a corporation has a right to force an individual to choose between his or her career and conscience.”
Marko added, “Lisa refused to renounce her faith and beliefs and was wrongfully terminated from the only job she had ever known.” He also said the verdict shows “religious discrimination has no place in America and affirms each person’s right to religious freedom.”
