that the first line of defense against the Obama Administration\u2019s attempt to force the Church to support contraceptive and abortifacients should focus on the fact that it is an assault on religious liberty. Our culture is (selectively) more interested in freedom (or rather the tyranny of the imperial autonomous self) than it is in life. So the first attempt to appeal to that culture (and a perfectly valid one) was to say, \u201cIf you value your own freedom then don\u2019t let the state trample the freedom of others.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, of course, the danger of that is twofold. <\/p>\n
First, suppose the majority of Americans are too blind and stupid to grasp that an assault on the freedom of people who have different values is a threat against their own freedom. It appears that this may be the case, just as it was the case that conservative torture enthusiasts were largely incapable of grasping that the state which tortures foreigners will eventually torture citizens and just as abortion enthusiasts are yet incapable of grasping that a culture which murders its children will one day murder them when they are also weak and unproductive.<\/p>\n