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A judge has ruled that West Virginia must allow religious exemptions to the state’s mandatory vaccination law in what the state’s governor is touting as a “win for every family forced from school over their faith.”

In a ruling last Wednesday, Judge Michael Froble of the West Virginia Circuit Court of Raleigh County determined that the West Virginia Board of Education’s policy offering no religious exemptions to the state’s Compulsory Vaccination Law violates the state’s Equal Protection for Religion Act.

Under West Virginia's vaccination law, a child cannot attend “any of the schools of the state or a state-regulated childcare center until he or she has been immunized against chickenpox, hepatitis-b, measles, meningitis, mumps, diphtheria, polio, rubella, tetanus and whoopi

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