6 Judgment No. CCZ 1/18 Constitutional Application Nos. CCZ 39/14 and CCZ 40/14 As a result of the exercise of the right to change religion, the applicants disabled themselves from discharging some of the duties of the office of deputy headmaster. They were no longer able to perform the duties in respect of affairs in matters of the Anglican religion. The Acts of the Diocese required the applicants in their capacities as deputy headmasters of the schools to play leading roles in church affairs, attend church services, and project an Anglican Christian ethos in the schools. They were required to be role models to their subordinates in the community in their lifestyles. It was their duty to conduct themselves in a manner that promoted and upheld Anglican Christian principles and values. The applicants deprived themselves of the right to remain deputy headmasters at the schools. Their inability to perform important duties as deputy headmasters of the first respondent’s schools prejudiced the interests of the community that established the schools. The applicants confessed in the founding affidavits that they stopped carrying out the duties of propagating the Anglican religious ethos at the schools when it was their duty to do so as deputy headmasters and priests. The roles played by the first and third respondents in the transfer of the applicants from the schools were part of the consequences of the exercise by the applicants of their right to choose a religion of their own. An exercise of a right may bring about undesired consequences. These include reactions by others whose interests are adversely affected by the exercise of one’s right. The applicants cannot seek protection from consequences of their own voluntary acts. As a reaction to the situation of the inability by the applicants to manage affairs in matters of the Anglican religion which formed an integral part of the duties of the office of deputy headmaster, the transfer of the applicants from the schools was a means of protecting the interests of the religious community that established the schools.