God, country and chickenpox. How an outbreak entangled one school in a vaccine showdown.
By Katie Mettler Katie Mettler Reporter covering breaking news and features Email Bio Follow March 19 at 1:58 PM Bill Kunkel used to vaccinate his children, before he read where some vaccines come from.
“This is tyranny against our religion, our faith, our country,” Bill Kunkel told The Washington Post. The Kunkels filed their lawsuit Thursday in the Boone County Circuit Court alleging that the Northern Kentucky Health Department had violated Jerome’s First Amendment rights. Accepting the chickenpox vaccine would be “immoral, illegal and sinful,” they said, according to their Catholic beliefs.
The bans are “consistent with this agency’s statutory charge to protect the public health,” officials said in one statement. The agency also shared copies of three informational letters sent to parents and school staff — on Feb. 5, Feb. 21 and March 14 — to combat what they consider a misleading narrative that Wiest and other community members had shared on social media.
What’s at stake is whether health officials overstepped those statutory duties in their pursuit to protect the public. A hearing on the lawsuit is scheduled for April 1, when a judge will rule on an injunction filed by the Kunkels’ lawyer asking to end the bans.
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