Ken Mauer, veteran NBA referee The 66-year-old has not refereed a game this season. With 33 seasons of experience in the League and more than 2,000 games behind himhe is prevented from arbitrating not having been vaccinated against the coronavirusthen drive extras theoras about the vaccine. Is the Kyrie Irving of the collegiate.
In a recent interview, Mauer explained that you have refused to be vaccinated because it will alter your DNA. In addition, considers that the vaccine contains fetal cells from miscarriages. The NBA does not allow him to referee without having received the doses of the vaccine. him, with strong catholic beliefscall looking a religious exemption, but was rejected by the League.
Mauer claims that almost a dozen arbitrators requested religious exemptionsbut only two, ly Mark Ayotte, refused the vaccine after being denied it. The rest put the corresponding doses to be able to continue refereeing, but he remains firm in their beliefs. Worried about his health to the extreme, he assures both him and his wife that they have researched vaccines and consider that the ingredients of the same contradict the will of God.
Contradict Pope Francis
“They have an effect on the DNA. It changes who you are as a human being. Our Lord Jesus Christ created us and this vaccine is altering our DNA. That goes against what every Christian believes. It goes against our faith. This is the way God created us. I’m not saying that he can’t get stitches or that he can’t have surgery on my knee. That has nothing to do with your DNA as a human being. That is what this vaccine is doing to people. Don’t let that happen to me,” says Mauer, who disregards the advice of Pope Francis, who described vaccination as a “moral obligation”.
To the changes in the DNA, the referee adds another one: “The vaccine has fetal cells from abortionseither at the experimental stage or among the final ingredients.” Two reasons that weigh heavily on your head for not getting vaccinated and that prevent him from refereeing games in the NBA this season.
