West Virginia public health officials acknowledge that families seeking religious exemptions to school vaccination policies do not have to elaborate on their beliefs.

All that families seeking such exemptions have to provide is the name of the student, the school, the parent’s name and the family’s mailing address along with a mention of religious exemptions to confirm that’s what the request is about.

The Department of Health accepts such applications as a self-evident statement of the sincerity of the families seeking the exemptions, according to an affidavit for Justin Davis, interim commissioner of the state Department of Public Health.

“The Department does not require any extrinsic evidence that the belief system is reasonable, logical, comprehensible, or part of a traditional orth

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