by Daniel Johnson
October 19, 2025
The decision got here after a four-day jury trial.
Actor Rockmond Dunbar, finest identified for portraying Kenny Chadway in Showtime’s sequence adaptation of the traditional movie Soul Meals, has misplaced his federal lawsuit towards Disney-owned twentieth Century Tv. Filed in response to Disney’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers on its productions — together with the Angela Bassett-led hit sequence 9-1-1 — Dunbar’s go well with claimed the requirement violated his non secular beliefs. A federal decide dominated towards him on Oct. 17.
Nonetheless, as Selection reported, Dunbar didn’t obtain help from the Congregation of Common Knowledge as soon as they found that Dunbar’s argument had little to do with their beliefs, which eschew vaccines and different medical developments. His argument, to them, appeared to solely be towards the COVID-19 vaccine specifically, which the group described as “sacrilegious” in court docket paperwork procured by the outlet.
Dunbar argued in court docket that, “Man created the COVID-19 vaccine to separate you from God. It is a religious battle. It is a battle of evil towards good. I stood on the aspect of excellent. I stood on the aspect of God. I stood on the shoulders of God.”
Dunbar maintained throughout his testimony that though he takes artificial testosterone injections and anastrozole, this merely makes him removed from “good,” and never the hypocrite that the church seems to have solid him as.
Dunbar continued, noting that his work on the present was his “dream job. It was like successful the lottery. I’m underwater. I’ve spent my whole retirement. This has taken my life right into a gap financially that I’ll by no means be capable to get out of.”
He maintained to the jury that he’s not an anti-vaxxer, regardless of his regurgitation of conspiracy theories that the COVID-19 vaccine has killed extra folks than the precise virus; he believes his ordeal is a religious check from God.
“Take my automobiles, my cash — I don’t care. You need to depart right here along with your soul intact,” he informed the court docket. “That is my religious check and I handed.”
In distinction to Dunbar’s claims, The Economist estimated in a 2022 report that due to the best way demise totals concerning the pandemic had been calculated, any demise tolls are doubtless a conservative determine; nonetheless, they famous that in North America alone, which incorporates the US, greater than 1.2 million individuals are estimated to have died from COVID-19.
For Dunbar’s scientific assertion to be appropriate, there must be a considerably greater demise toll. As of Might 2025, USA Info estimates that 230,637,348 People, or 70% of the inhabitants, are thought-about totally vaccinated towards the COVID-19 virus.
Dunbar, nonetheless, nonetheless seems to be firmly entrenched in his non secular beliefs, which even his lawyer, Scott Road, known as “kooky” whereas defending his shopper. Outdoors the courtroom, Dunbar was unwavering, noting to reporters his perception that “God nonetheless gained at this time.”
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