The issues here are abortion, and gay marriage. The "Conscience Rights" business comes from a bunch of white, conservative Albertans. Obviously, what we're really talking about here are not "Conscience Rights", but "Christian Rights" by another name.
We all know that this conscience stuff wouldn't apply to anyone else.
Say a Muslim firefighter (a public servant) refuses to put out a fire at a Church for whatever supernatural reason he cooks up. How far does the "conscience" argument get this guy? Are conservatives going to be outraged when he gets fired? Yeah, right.
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