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Sweet Land of (Positive) Liberty

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Sweet Land of (Positive) Liberty

Brian Kaylor
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Beau Underwood
Sep 16, 2021
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Sweet Land of (Positive) Liberty

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Rev. Henning Jacobson didn’t want to get vaccinated. But the Lutheran pastor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, didn’t raise religious objections. His was a personal fear. Citing a bad reaction to a vaccine he received as a child in Sweden, he claimed a 1902 Cambridge order requiring the smallpox vaccine amid an outbreak violated his personal freedoms.

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