The Nazis weren't a real threat to anyone's freedom, just an irritant.
Neither is not forcing the Church to pay for contraception, quite the opposite, the force is a threat to freedom.
A win for liberty in this case would seem to me to by a Pyrrhic victory.
A Pyrrhic victory would be a victory where you can't bear the cost. The cost here would not be in money or lives or equipment, the only potential loss would be a loss of freedom, but I don't see how that comes out of this case. Well maybe it could, if opposition here amounted to the straw that broke the camels back on just nationalizing health insurance in the US entirely, than it could. That's about the only Pyrrhic victory possibility I can see, and it doesn't seem likely (although it seems far more likely than any theocracy scenario).
If your argument is that the church winning would strengthen it, and it would use that strength to try to limit freedom, and the extra strength would make it effective in doing so, I just don't see it. Maybe the church would try to outlaw contraception (I don't see even a serious effort as likely, but I'll go with it for the sake of argument), but it wouldn't win. (Even if it did I would probably see it as something other than a phyrric victory, but I don't consider that to be an important point.) What would the church do that somehow would be enabled by this victory. I can't see anything as even remotely possible.
We may complain about an authoritarian government now but we ain't seen nothing until we've seen a theocracy.
You seriously think there is any chance of theocracy in the short run, or chance that winning this fight would be a noticeable contribution towards theocracy in the long run to be even a remote possibility? I don't (except for definitions of remote that would includes risks like that of Costa Rica invading and conquering the US).
If theocracy was a real risk, then if anything pounding on the church like this might increase the chance of it happening (something I also consider to be a silly scenario, but seems no less plausible, perhaps even more plausible, then the church being able to avoid paying for contraception, leading to theocracy). |
