In so doing, the state issued over a hundred thousand dollars' worth of fines to private Amish schools in 2022 that failed to comply with Albany's edicts.

Related: WebMD Claims COVID Vax 'Still Crucial for Children'

The Amish have thus far refused to pay.

Via Reason (emphasis added):

From 1966 to 2019, unvaccinated students were allowed to attend school in New York with a medical exemption issued by a physician, or if they "hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs" opposed to vaccination...

Officials amended the state's legal code in June 2019 to remove all religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates. The legislator who introduced the bill, Jeffrey Dinowitz (D–Bronx), attributed the outbreak [of measles] to "misinformation and irresponsible rhetoric." But instead of scaling up information campaigns, he chose to crack down on religious freedom.

In 2022, the government issued $118,000 in fines targeting three rural Amish schoolhouses—all of which are privately run, privately funded, and exclusively attended by members of the local Amish community—for failing to comply with the mandate.

After a ruling by a New York federal court and two appeals going against the Amish, the last stand is set to take place in the United States Supreme Court.

Against the backdrop of the Amish vaccine fight, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ratcheted her terror campaign against her subjects up to heights not seen since COVID over measles, a disease once widely understood to be generally mild in otherwise healthy children but which the state frames as some kind of existential crisis in order to drive up vaccination rates... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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