A New York family is suing a Catholic school who refused to allow their son to enroll in the school without the state required vaccinations. But apparently there is a “conscience clause” stating in part “children whose parent, parents, or guardian hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to the practices herein required, and no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school,”.
I realize there are legitimate concerns people have for abstaining from vaccinations. There have been many vaccines in the past which have cause severe health problems. There are children who suffer ill effects regularly from vaccines, so there are reasonable objections to vaccinations. However, according to the article on Foxnews.com, my perception is that the family’s objection appears theological.
Sifting Reality 
I understand where you come from on how ridiculous the parents are by saying that the reason they do not vaccinate their children is due to their religious beliefs because of the parents most likely being Catholic. Christians would be in the same “boat” on that one. ;) I see this as an issue because it is a private school. Private schools have the right to decide who does and who does not attend their school. Ultimately it is their right to do so. Public schools will allow religious reasons for a child not to be vaccinated along with philosophy reasons in MOST American states. I believe the private school has a right to reject the student considering the amount of damage the child could cause the other children at the school and could cause the schools reputation. If there is an out break of measles or mumps or polio (there has not been an outbreak of polio in the US since the 1970’s), or any other infectious disease because of an unvaccinated child attending the school, that would damage the schools reputation. That is not to say that a vaccinated child could not cause an outbreak, that happens all the time because of vaccines that are duds (unknowingly ineffective vaccines), but a child who is vaccinated was thought to be immune thus it saves face to everyone involved. I am a little disappointed that you linked to an anti vaccine propaganda site. That is just me personally. I also can understand why you did not link to a site like Science Based Medicine because most of the writers are anti religion. However, SBM gives MUCH more clear answers to people seeking vaccine information.
Here is a link to SBM on vaccines.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=nvic
This is a link to the same site under their Vaccine category. There is so much there that it takes a lot of time to go through, but it is a starting point to understand vaccines and how they work.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/category/vaccines/
side note, People can have vaccine injuries, but it is not what anti vaccine groups have made it out to be.
Yeah KT
Definitely. I really think it is a stretch for offering religious reasons for something like vaccines. But you’re right, private school = we make the rules. Businesses (private schools among them) should have that kind of sovereignty when it comes to their customers.