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points by austin-cheney 1 day ago | 0 comments
Yes, in most cases a religious exemption requires approval after a formal review regardless of the reason or its merits.
[–] giantg2 1 day ago
Please provide some evidence for your claim. There are plenty of cases out there to show the opposite of what you claim.

https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2026/01/21/ninth-c...

[–] austin-cheney 1 day ago
You could answer that yourself. To qualify this first ask what are the criteria for a person to establish a valid religious exemption request and then what are the criteria for a regulating body or employer to deny the exemption according to that criteria.

Here is a brief example from the American Bar Association: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-righ...

Also, some institutions have much wider latitude to deny a variety of religious exemption requests than other due to environmental hazards and safety concerns.

[–] giantg2 1 day ago
This is the opposite of what your prior comment said. Your prior comment says that exemption requests require approval regardless of the merits.