I understand that; I didn't think you were. My point is that the "liberty of conscience" you're talking about is being badly eroded, right here in the good old US of A. What's going on in Spain is just another example of the same thing.
It's not just government employees, and it's not just going to be Catholics, either. And it's not really about some supposed political loyalty that we owe the Pope. It's about imposing a particular social agenda. That agenda is anti-family, anti-child, and anti-Christian. It's as revolutionary as that imposed by the Nazis, and the people doing the imposition have as little concern with those who suffer because of what they do.
the problem is an "absence of conscience"
and frankly some atheists have more "conscience" than those that profess to be "religious", but I digress....