I'll bet they are correct.
For a liberal, allowing any alternate views, any at all, means they haven’t won. They must win at any cost. Having won that means that they are right and morally virtuous. If they haven’t won then there is the possibility that people will see them as evil. Therefore, the only way possible to eliminate the possible Nuremburg situation where they hang for what they’ve done is to force society to declare in advance that their position is morally right.
the desperate effort to establish legal precedence.
In California, perhaps. But in Pennsylvania, no.
The problem is that the average Pennsylvania voter is not aware of this attack on the Little Sisters. The media just will not report on it. I did a brief Google search of PA news outlets, looking for the story. It's not there.