I promise you that once this firestorm is concluded, in favor of Christians (represented by the RC church), it will come up again.
Quite soon.
Next iteration will invoke either Santeria or Islam.
After all, if the government can't force Christians to go against their teachings, how can you argue that sacrificing animals, living under a veil, or beheading apostates according to those savage tenets can be denied?
Of course saving lives and ritually taking lives, living in sunlight and living in darkness, are absolute opposites, but the argument will not respect that and those merely observing the debate will not accommodate that.
No, " None of this was an error or “rookie mistake”
Winning this battle virtually assures loss of the war.
I don’t think we will lose either the battle or the war. This is a Constitutional matter. Freedoms can not be taken away this way.