Conscientious Objection in Canada: Pragmatic Accommodation and Principled Adjudication

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Conscientious Objection in Canada: Pragmatic Accommodation and Principled Adjudication
Abstract
In most religious accommodation cases, an individual or group seeks to be exempted from a law that restricts their religious practice. The accommodation claim, though, has a slightly different form in conscientious objection cases. In these cases, an individual asks to be exempted not from a law that restricts his/her religious practice, but instead from a law that requires him/her to perform an act that he/she regards as immoral. In many of these cases the claimant asks to be excused from performing an act that is not itself “immoral” but that supports or facilitates (what she/he sees as) the immoral action of others, and so makes him/her complicit in this immorality.
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SSRN Scholarly Paper
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3157340
Place
Rochester, NY
Date
2018-01-05
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9/10/23, 8:16 PM
Short Title
Conscientious Objection in Canada
Language
en
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Social Science Research Network
Citation
Moon, R. (2018). Conscientious Objection in Canada: Pragmatic Accommodation and Principled Adjudication (SSRN Scholarly Paper 3157340). https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3157340
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