I don’t see how anyone can be forced to do anything like this.
They won’t start with us. They’ll just make it a requirement to graduate High School.
In the case of the firemen, I think it was 'go or lose your job for failure to appear at the assigned place at the assigned time'.
It's tough to take a moral stand that leaves you and your kids at risk of becoming street people, or even giving up significant income within the family.
I would hope that folks would do the right thing, and that courts would support them, but that turns out to not be the case in the modern world.
/johnny