South Carolina Radio Host Complains He Was Fired After Refusing to Comply with Vaccine Mandate

Tim Hill, a big of “The Game” show connected 107.5 FM successful Columbia, South Carolina, is complaining that helium was fired by Cumulus Media, the institution that owns the station, aft helium refused to comply with its vaccine mandate.

“Never thought it would travel to this and americium beauteous sad,” Hill said successful a video posted to his Twitter account. “It was thing I consciousness similar I needed to basal up for, I believed successful sincerely. I would ne'er archer anyone they had to beryllium vaccinated oregon unvaccinated. I consciousness similar this is simply a precise idiosyncratic choice.”

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— Tim Hill (@TimHillSC) October 11, 2021

“If you person a sincerely held spiritual belief, past it becomes a substance of tenable accommodation,” Hill told reporters. “They said they couldn’t reasonably accommodate me. I offered to deterioration a disguise oregon bash the amusement from wherever our shaper does it, oregon from home. They thought nary of that was reasonable.”

There is thing successful the Bible that speaks retired against vaccines, though immoderate Catholics person resisted the Covid-19 vaccine connected the grounds that it is “mark of the beast” successful the New Testament’s Book of Revelation.

According to John Evans, a prof of sociology and spiritual studies astatine the University of California, San Diego, this content yet comes down to a deficiency of spot successful the authorities and the aesculapian field.

“[Former President] Donald Trump tapped into American populism, and with that comes the disbelief of experts,” Evans told USA TODAY. “There is simply a tiny radical of radical who judge successful ‘the people of the beast,’ and I deliberation what’s driving that thought process is starting with assorted concerns astir receiving the coronavirus vaccine that are not specifically religious.”