The Left tramples religious beliefs on contraception

Just below the surface of these spirited scenes of civil debate and engagement, though, there were dark signs. If you listened to the chants and read the signs of the two sides, it seemed as if they were speaking different languages, or arguing about different cases.

In the eyes of conservatives — and I am one — Hobby Lobby was mostly about the limits on state power to coerce people to act against their consciences.

In the eyes of liberals — if the activists at the Supreme Court, scribblers at lefty websites like Salon or my interlocutors on Twitter are representative — Hobby Lobby was about male bosses denying women the ability to get birth control.