‘General Hospital’ Star Sues ABC after Being Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
Actor Ingo Rademacher, who has starred as General Hospital’s Jasper Jacks for 30 years, was released from the daytime soap last month because he would not take a COVID vaccine.
Rademacher claims that he filed for a religious exemption for the network’s vaccine mandate but was denied.
“Questioning the sincerity of one’s religious beliefs in order to deny a request for an exemption to the Covid Vaccine Mandate constitutes religious discrimination and violates federal and state civil rights laws,” Rademacher’s lawsuit declares.
“I am entitled to a religious exemption against mandatory vaccination for Covid-19 on the basis of my deeply and sincerely held moral belief that my body is endowed by my creator with natural processes to protect me and that its natural integrity cannot ethically be violated by the administration of artificially created copies of genetic material, foreign to nature and experimental,” Rademacher said in October.
Rademacher is only one of two General Hospital stars released from the show over the vax.
Co-star Steve Burton was also released from the show.
Rademacher was also under fire for supposedly making “anti-trans” comments on his social media when he called openly transgender Biden administration official Rachel Levine a “dude.”
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