Can anyone spell discrimination?
Not under current law. Montana has addressed that with a very clever use of civil rights law, with their HB 702. But that won’t help here.
The strategy seems to be to keep ratcheting up the costs of non-compliance until individuals are forced to choose between their principles and providing for their families. It’s not a good situation and there are no easy answers.
In California this would be actionable under the Fair Employment & Housing Act. And I think this is t the only jurisdiction where that would be the case