The last several days we looked at laws Jacksonville, Florida parents should know about. This is the last installment in this series.
18. I am not sure that I want my kids vaccinated against all of the diseases that my pediatrician recommends. I have heard about negative side effects. Do I have a choice? Section 381.003, Florida Statutes establishes programs for the prevention of preventable disease. The law requires that all children receive vaccines protecting against the spread of diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and other diseases for child-care center or school attendance. There are religious exceptions.
A religious exemption for vaccination is a written form certifying that the parent’s objection to immunization for religious reasons exempts the parent and child from state vaccination requirements. .
This exemption is only necessary for use in Florida Public and private schools for kindergarten through grade 12.
- A religious exemption is for anyone who has a sincere religious conflict with vaccination.
- A religious objection may be expressly implied by religious denomination or it may be based on an individual’s own moral/spiritual conscience to live God’s Word.
Q: What constitutes a religious conflict with vaccination?
- All vaccines are made in violation of God’s Word.
- Vaccines are made with toxic chemicals that are injected into the bloodstream by vaccination.
- All vaccines are made with foreign proteins (viruses and bacteria), and some vaccines are made with genetically engineered viral and bacterial materials.
- A conflict arises if you believe that man is made in God’s image and the injection of toxic chemicals and foreign proteins into the bloodstream is a violation of God’s directive to keep the body/temple holy and free from impurities.
- A conflict arises if you accept God’s warning not to mix the blood of man with the blood of animals.
- Many vaccines are produced in animal tissues.
- A conflict arises if your religious convictions are predicated on the belief that all life is sacred.
- God’s commandment “Thou Shall Not Kill” applies to the practice of abortion.
- When you believe that the practice of abortion should not be encouraged or supported in any way, a conflict arises with the use of vaccines produced in aborted fetal tissue even though you did not have any other connection with the abortions from which the vaccines are derived.
Q: What religions qualify for religious exemption?
- The statutory language for Florida vaccine policy clearly states that religious exemption must be granted without question if vaccination conflicts with a person’s religious convictions.
- A religious objection may be expressly implied by religious denomination or it may be based on an individual’s own moral/spiritual conscience to live God’s Word.