Christian Worker Loses Bid to Revive Covid-19 Testing Bias Case

A Christian worker who challenged a form of Covid-19 testing on religious grounds failed to convince the Ninth Circuit she deserves another chance at her employment bias claims.

Mid-Columbia Medical Center granted its former health information director Sherry Detwiler a religious exemption to a Covid-19 vaccination requirement, but declined to let her skip weekly nasal-swab testing. The worker argued that the swabs were carcinogenic and she had a religious duty to treat her body as a temple, but she didn’t “sufficiently articulate a bona fide religious belief” that conflicted with the testing requirement, the US Court of Appeals for the ...