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A Texas church school ranked last in state measles vaccination rates. Its pastor rejoiced

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A Texas church school ranked last in state measles vaccination rates.

Just 14.2% of Mercy Culture Prep’s kindergarteners were vaccinated.

Texas state health department officials reported 223 cases statewide as of Tuesday .

The U.S. is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in years .

"We believe in freedom of health and that parents should have their rights," Schott says.

Schatzline says he doesn't tell his congregation what to do.

A sociologist finds the rejection of vaccines foreseeable given cultural shifts toward individualism and parental empowerment.

" Vaccines aren’t going to keep their children safe; they are," she says.

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