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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
While I agree with the logistics of a policy such as this, it doesn't change the fact that an agent of the province is deciding not to offer a service to someone based upon their personal beliefs. If a cashier told you to go to the next till over because you were gay, you would still be able to purchase your food but what would your views of the service at the store be and the store in general? Would it still be that the store was preserving peoples freedoms? I am 99% sure you would call the manager and complain and likely request that the person be fired.
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Cashiers aren't eligible under the policy, and even if they were, this information is irrelevant to doing their job so it would not be grounds to discriminate. There is no reason they should have this info, and they don't have the right to ask, so they don't have the right to deny service.
Your conscience is not something that allows you to discriminate based on another persons actions, it's something that causes you to discriminate based on actions you are required to perform that go against your beliefs. As such, you could refuse to give someone a tattoo of a swastika, but could not refuse service because someone has such a tattoo showing.
FWIW, i'm opposed to having these rights extended to marriage commissioners, which is why i'm focused mostly on the medical side. There seems to be some misunderstanding of what a conscience is.