LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A singer is suing the Los Angeles Master Chorale, alleging her requests to her employer to be tested for the coronavirus rather than take vaccinations due to religious and medical objections have been wrongfully denied.
Virenia Lind's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges religious discrimination, failure to accommodate religious belief or observance, failure to accommodate disability and medical condition, failure to engage in interactive process to determine reasonable accommodation for disability and medical condition, discrimination based on disability and medical condition and failure to prevent discrimination.
Lind seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. An LAMC representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the suit brought Friday.
Lind maintains that LAMC forced the soprano into unpaid leave status in 2021, the year the company mandated that all employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
"Lind is unable to take COVID-19 vaccines because the vaccines conflict with her sincerely held religious beliefs as a Christian, including her Christian belief that abortion is a sin and the use of a product developed with aborted fetal cell lines is a sin," the suit states.
Lind also cannot take the shots because of the potential reaction with her angioedema, according to the suit, which further states the singer told management about her religious and medical objections to the mandate and said she would test for COVID-19 with an appropriate protocol, but her request for accommodation has been denied in alleged violation of the state Government Code.
LAMC's alleged discriminatory conduct has caused Lind lost income as well as emotional distress, the suit states.
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