I would not call it so much cowardly as short sighted and illustrative of that famous quote from John F. Kennedy: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Does a citizen really have to start killing people to keep government agents out of their religion? Judging from the success of islam, it would seem so....
The same left that is supposedly all about CHOICE, wants to force people to abide by their beliefs..its total hypocrisy but not surprising considering what the left stands for..destroy anything that is considered Christian or traditional, that simple..destroy that and you have nothing left