Commenting on a recent case involving a church being ordered to pay maternity benefits to a pregnant employee it had sacked over adultery, SMU Associate Professor of Law and NMP Eugene Tan argued that freedom of religion does not "encompass the right to discriminate against non-believers in secular matters such as employment, nor the right to impose one's religious beliefs on others.” He added that the downside to Singapore becoming more pluralistic is that in a multi-religious workforce, and yet in a society in which 20 per cent of Singaporeans do not subscribe to any faith, employees could end up being discriminated against on religious grounds.