How Democrats and Republicans feel about religious exemptions to vaccine mandates

Political partisanship has complicated the country’s response to COVID-19 from the beginning, so it should come as no surprise that Democrats and Republicans have different views on one of this fall’s most contentious pandemic-related debates.

New research from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty shows that members of the GOP are much more supportive than their more liberal peers of religious exemptions to workplace vaccine mandates. Nearly 7 in 10 Republicans (68%) say businesses that choose to impose such mandates should accommodate employees with faith-based objections, compared to just 4 in 10 Democrats....