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Covid mask and vaccination mandates aren’t Christian persecution
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons writes about the responsibility that world religions have to support mask and vaccine mandates.
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Are mask mandates a form of Christian persecution? That’s the argument a California man is making after his two teens were sent home for violating their high school’s mask policy.
“The Bible says we’re made in the image of God and Satan tries to cover that up. A mask is a sign of oppression,” Gary Nelson told NBC News. And then it gets worse. He claimed that Muslims and Jews would have been accommodated but that the school administrators “feel safe” persecuting Christians.
The above excerpt was originally published in NBC News. Click here to view the full article.
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Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons
Former Fellow, Religion and Faith