"...forced to violate their conscience by the state..."
While the sad state of the state allows some to do things that you and I find disgusting, the state hasn't as yet forced me to violate my priciples.
Interesting. Just one very small example, I have had to select minority candidates for scholarships when my principles run against such preferences. Another: my children have been exposed to lots of propaganda in the public schools that neither they nor I had any choice about.
If the state has not yet forced you to violate your principles in any way whatsoever, I would think either you have not thought very hard about the things the state forces us to do, or you don't have much in the way of principles. No offense intended.
The article wasn't about you, or your (unknown) principles. Why rag on another FReeper? Plenty of us have had a big dose of Gay Affirmative Action forced on us by employers, school boards, local legislatures or lawyers or judges for the ex-spouse. Here in Maryland, a single judge has already decided We Shall Have Gay Marriage, and the leftist legislature did an end run around the thousands of citizens and delegates who attempted to return the issue to the People for a vote. If it is not stopped on appeal at the Appeals level of judicial activists, it will be affirmatively taught as an inalienable right to all schoolchildren in this state, regardless of the majority who disagree, even in liberal counties.
There are thousands, if not millions, of Christ-believing Americans who have already been worked over by the State over issues of political correctness.
If you disagree with a post because you haven't personally experienced it, Lord help you. Learning will be hard for you on the road ahead.