The Pelican Institute for Public Policy files suit against the White House on behalf of a Fort Polk soldier who refuses to get the COVID shots. Pelican’s Special Counsel James Baehr says 16-year veteran Master Sergeant Robert Galey Jr. had and still has religious misgivings about the shots, and he faces discharge if he does not comply…
“He thought about it carefully. He prayed about it a lot. He researched the process of testing and producing the vaccine, and he ended up concluding that it wasn’t consistent with his beliefs for him to take the vaccine. He was, unfortunately, rejected,” says Baehr.
Baehr says he’s filed for an injunction in the West ern District Federal Court of Louisiana to prevent Galey from being discharged. He says courts across the country have already ruled against the Biden administration’s mandate for soldiers to get the vaccine, and yet the army still seeks to punish Galey…
“His unit is still trying to give him reprimands…that will hurt his career and (they’re) still trying to separate him. So we are actively engaged in litigation and we’re going to go to court and seek the judge’s opinion.”
Baehr says Sgt. Galey has served for over 16 years; in Iraq and in Afghanistan, yet his threatened discharge would mean losing his pension, retirement benefits and medical benefits for himself and his family. He says the Army’s actions against Galey violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment…
“We’re going to file a preliminary injunction, and we’ll try to get on the judge’s docket as quickly as possible, so that he can’t experience adverse or negative personnel action that he doesn’t deserve.”
So far there has been no official response to the lawsuit by the Army of Department of Defense.
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