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Compelled service with compensation still exists: Jury duty, contractual relationships (e.g. military stop-loss policies).

What this does is eliminate a particular contractual compulsion.

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interesting you bring up jury duty and military service, both of which have longstanding religious conscience exemptions.

Only because it's the government imposing them, and the government (not private sector) is constitutionally forbidden from interfering with religious exercise.

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