12 Judgment No. CCZ 1/18 Constitutional Application Nos. CCZ 39/14 and CCZ 40/14 The applicants voluntarily opted to change their allegiance from the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa to the Evangelical Anglican Church International. In so doing, they ceased to be priests adhering to the principles of the Anglican Church as set out and practised by those who are members of the first respondent. The freedom to associate necessarily includes the freedom to disassociate. They became pastors adhering to the tenets and beliefs of the Evangelical Anglican Church International. In R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd (1985) 18 DLR (4 ed) 321 at 353 DICKSON CJC said: “The essence of the concept of freedom of religion is the right to entertain such religious beliefs as a person chooses, the right to declare religious beliefs openly and without fear of hindrance or reprisal, and the right to manifest belief by worship and practice or by teaching and dissemination.” The applicants did not deny that they were able to do and did all these things in the exercise of the right to freedom of religion. Nothing was done by any of the respondents to prevent the applicants from practising their new faith and performing their duties as pastors in their new church. Their right of choice of religion and the right to practise that religion was not impaired at all by any of the respondents. None of the respondents in any way interfered with the applicants’ positions as pastors in their new church, nor did they prevent any of them from taking part in any religious activities of that church.