Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has threated to withhold state funds from Catholic schools who fail to offer students religious exemptions from vaccine requirements. The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops eviscerated (in a kind, clerical way) Uthmeier and his request.
Uthmeier appears surprised that church autonomy extends beyond the right to fire ministers or limit who they work with for adoptions. It includes the right to adhere to and enforce all religious teachings that run contrary to the policy preferences of government and government officials (even government officials who self-identify as learned co-religionists).