{"id":372,"date":"2012-04-04T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=372"},"modified":"2012-04-04T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:25:23","slug":"freedom-of-conscience-frightens-premier-of-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of conscience frightens Premier of Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford of Alberta states that she is &#8220;very frightened&#8221; by support for freedom of conscience expressed by the leader of the Wildrose Party, her principal opponent in the current provincial election campaign.\u00a0 The Wildrose Party is <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/archive\/news\/2010-01.aspx#Alberta_political_party_promises_protection_of_conscience_law\"> officially committed<\/a> to protection of conscience legislation for health care workers.\u00a0 Danielle Smith, party leader, recently stated that she would apply the same principle to marriage commissioners who object to performing marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples.\u00a0 Smith&#8217;s comments have drawn strident denunciations, equating the exercise of freedom of conscience with discrimination and hate-mongering.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/CTVNews\/Canada\/20120404\/Redford-frightened-by-Wildrose-view-of-conscience-rights-120404\/\">Canadian Press<\/a>] [<a href=\"..\/..\/?p=646\">Project letter to Calgary Herald<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford of Alberta states that she is &#8220;very frightened&#8221; by support for freedom of conscience expressed by the leader of the Wildrose Party, her principal opponent in the current provincial election campaign.\u00a0 The Wildrose Party is officially committed to protection of conscience legislation for health care workers.\u00a0 Danielle Smith, party leader, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freedom of conscience frightens Premier of Alberta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,511],"tags":[54,56,130,364],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-news","category-society-politics","tag-alberta","tag-alison-redford","tag-danielle-smith","tag-wildrose-party"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Freedom of conscience frightens Premier of Alberta - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=372\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freedom of conscience frightens Premier of Alberta - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford of Alberta states that she is &#8220;very frightened&#8221; 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