"Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying."
You are absolutely correct! Faithful Christians can’t be threatened into accepting this abomination any more than Christian ministers can be “forced” to profane their altars by blessing an abomination. Reference the Book of Daniel. The churches and the unfaithful who have equivocated on this or who try to justify by making it a political matter have given up their “fireproofing”. This is Satan’s best work. Sooner or later every person will have to choose and won’t be able to sit on the fence. Christians haven’t been imprisoned, murdered and persecuted since the beginning for bowing to popular opinion or corrupt laws. There’s a reason for that.
While it may be extremely hard for Christians to see their families eventually suffer for not having the Mark of the Beast, remember Lot who saved his by obedience.
Political correctness is no longer just a silly Liberal vapor. It has become a literal matter of life and death.