{"id":8739,"date":"2022-03-31T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:19:30","slug":"americans-skeptical-about-religious-objections-to-covid-19-vaccines-but-oppose-employer-mandates","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/03\/31\/americans-skeptical-about-religious-objections-to-covid-19-vaccines-but-oppose-employer-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans skeptical about religious objections to COVID-19 vaccines, but oppose employer mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic targeting minority community members at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Los Angeles on April 9, 2021. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While many public and private employers in the United States have required workers to be vaccinated<\/a> against COVID-19, some are allowing exemptions<\/a> for people who say the vaccine violates their religious beliefs<\/a>. But most U.S. adults do not believe that these requests for religious exemptions are sincere, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two-thirds of U.S. adults say most people who claim religious objections to a COVID-19 vaccine \u201care just using religion as an excuse to avoid the vaccine,\u201d while about a third (31%) say they think the objectors \u201csincerely believe getting a COVID-19 vaccine is against their religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the same time, most Americans do not<\/em> think those with religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine \u2013 regardless of the sincerity of their beliefs \u2013 should lose their jobs. A majority of adults (65%) say employers that require coronavirus vaccinations should \u201callow employees who have religious objections to keep their jobs even if they decline to get the vaccine.\u201d Around a third (32%) disagree, saying the employers should \u201crequire employees who have religious objections to get the vaccine just like other employees, if they want to keep their job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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