Not protected by the law:

• Can easily devolve into discrimination
• Does not challenge sincerely held beliefs, religious or otherwise. Simply a preference.
  • ‘Sometimes it’s also stipulated the objections are “deeply held” or “core beliefs.”  This signals that a conscientious refusal must be a threshold of severity.  I, for example, might think that giving patients plastic straws is morally wrong because I’m an environmentalist, but I neverthless can live with it and do it all the time.  This wouldn’t be a conscientious refusal because the threshold isn’t met.’