This is the thing that baffles me about people claiming they shouldn't be "punished" for their conscience.

I'm a Quaker. Conscience protections in the US were literally written because of us. And if a job's core duties violate your conscience, you don't take the job. https://twitter.com/RozKaveney/status/1298294612189155330

This idea that "conscience protections" mean an employer or an employee doesn't have to meet their obligations and the other party just has to put up with that and eat the expense? That's not conscience protection and it never has been.

If you're perpetuating bigotry at work, that damages your employer's reputation and harms their bottom line and they don't have to just let you keep doing it because you have a sincerely held belief that bigotry is good.

I can't go work for a defense contractor and say "sorry I'm a pacifist so I'm not actually going to do my work, but you can't fire me because I sincerely believe this work is wrong."

It's bizarre that people with bigoted beliefs think it somehow works differently for them.

There are matters of conscience that employers should accommodate, but those are things that do not place an undue burden on the employer. Being loudly and publicly bigoted towards a population your employer serves is an undue burden.

Like the fact that I cover my hair does not put an undue burden on my employer because I am not a hair model. It'd be wrong to fire me for that.

People who can't see the difference between that and "I don't think some people are fully human" are being willfully obtuse.