Neil and Melissa Amrhein say their son should be allowed to attend Valor Collegiate Academy, a publicly-funded and privately-run charter school in Nashville, Tennessee, even though he is not wearing a mask while the COVID-19 Delta variant tears through the state as part of the biggest pandemic in 100 years.
Neil told WTVF they were allowed to attend orientation for their son without a mask, and were told by the school administration their son could go maskless with a religious exemption:
Our God is not Fauci, it’s Jesus and we should have the rights to be defended and supported in the same way.
Melissa said that her family was not under government laws:
I would like to make medical decisions for my children and religious decisions for our family. My husband and I like to make those together, without influence from the government or the school board. Our beliefs are that our freedoms come from God, not from man, not from governing bodies.
The Valor Collegiate Academy said they are following the Metro Nashville Board of Education that recently voted to implement a mask mandate for all students and staff while indoors and on buses.
(Source: WTVF)