Florida’s Catholic bishops defended their schools’ existing vaccine exemption policies in a response to the state attorney general’s threats to withhold state funding and scholarships.
“Respectfully, any insinuation that a government official can dictate to the Catholic Church (or any religion) how to apply her tenets and dogma violates well-established constitutional religious freedom rights,” said the letter signed by Michael B Sheedy, the executive director of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops (FCCB). The FCCB is a non-partisan public policy organisation representing the views of the state’s Catholic bishops.
