By John M. Grondelski
for Crisis Magazine
Hobby Lobby was never so much about the principled Constitutional issue of whether there is a right to conscientious objection (be they based on religious or scientific convictions) as much as a prop in the melodramatic political “war on women” by which some cynically hope to save at least a pro-abortion Senate majority in the last two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. One might even say that they secretly welcomed it: had the decision gone the other way, what would they talk about? Barring corporate political contributions just isn’t as sexy (and would not be expected to garner as many votes) as “defending the Pill” against Wall Street (or Oklahoma City) employers “in your bedroom.”
That, of course, is the current line of the media elite repeated recently by Gail Collins in her September 6 New York Times column “Passion for the Pill,” in which she suggests that Republicans who want to win in November will have to pledge loyalty to “birth control.” Given the flood of ink spilled in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision one hesitates to contribute to the deluge, but the absence of certain themes in that commentary demand a few thoughts:
John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
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