Legal Brief Challenges Biden Vaccine and Mask Mandate; Massachusetts Family Institute A Signer

The Massachusetts Family Institute is one of 30 right-of-center pro-family state organizations that signed a friend-of-the-court brief encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to quash President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate.

"My office has been flooded with calls from people seeking help in requesting religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates," said Andrew Beckwith, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, in a written statement Friday. "We have seen time and time again how the rights of these individuals, many of them medical professionals, are being largely ignored by a bureaucracy that doesn't seem to understand the law or have any familiarity with sincere religious faith.  We've also seen government agencies hand down ever-changing COVID rules that carry the force of law. Not only are these rules often arbitrary and self-contradictory, they frequently discriminate against people of faith. We must not allow the government to bypass the legislative process, where there is accountability, by giving seemingly limitless authority to unelected bureaucrats under the guise of a perpetual 'emergency.' "