Sorry, real men don’t obey rules - we make ‘em.
Real men obey God's rules, the truth of which makes them free. That does not keep them from attacks of the satanic foe. Kavanaugh the Catholic is being compelled to demonstrate the truth of Luther's words:
Nehman sie uns den Leib,
Gut, Ehr', Kind und Weib:
laß fahren dahin;
sie haben's kein'n Gewinn,
das Reich muß uns doch bleiben.
(Were they to take our house, goods, honor, child, or spouse, though life be wrenched away, they cannot win the day. The kingdom's ours forever!)