A former nurse’s complaint of religious discrimination against the Boston Medical Center for opposing the COVID-19 vaccine can continue, a federal judge held Tuesday, determining that her “individualized and idiosyncratic” form of Paganism constitutes a religious belief, rather than a personal or medical stance.
The ex-nurse, Amy Munroe, represented by attorneys with Bobrowski & Vickery in Amherst, Massachusetts, worked as an employee of the Boston hospital for over 20 years. Munroe, was terminated in October 2021, after the hospital denied her religious accommodation to its COVID-19 vaccine. Munroe claims her religion is an individual form of Paganism, that Mother Nature is her God and that she “does not ‘participate in’ Western medicine, among other things, according to the case captioned Munroe v. Boston Medical Center.
