Religious beliefs

I don't understand why people think it is all right to break the law and claim immunity due to religious beliefs:

Noesen was working as a substitute pharmacist at a Menomonie Kmart in 2002 when a University of Wisconsin-Stout student came in to refill birth control pills. He asked her whether the pills would be used for contraception and then refused to fill her prescription -- or return it to her or transfer it to a pharmacist elsewhere -- as a matter of religious conscience.

Read the whole thing. The guy basically steals the patient's prescription and claims it's because of his faith.

WTF?