I fully agree with that except that the Church and many on the right are accepting and responding to the premise created by the left that this only affects religious institutions. What about the 1st Amendment rights of the unaffiliated individual citizen?
The Dems have created the false perception that they have made an exception for religious institutions. However they haven't even offered that phoney baloney concession for the rest of us. They have mandated that all insurance policies cover abortions and abortion-inducing "contraceptives" so no one can escape participating in the murder of unborn humans other than to go uninsured and be in violation of the law.
That is a violation of everyone's freedom of religious exercise.
This whole thing is wrong on so many levels. Government, federal especially, has no business telling me what I must buy or sell. I will concede the right of forcing my business to use standard weights and measures, but not much more.
Then here comes the 1st Amendment issue, while we are still trying to digest the entirety of the overstepping Unaffordable Care Act.
It’s like a Blitzkrieg. Which front do we fight on? Catholics have one take, Women have another, Libertarians have another- it seems an exercise in splintering and overrunning any of us who might stand in opposition.
What they miss in their assessment is the unifying effect it can actually have on disparate groups.
Politics makes for strange bedfellows.