The One and his healthcare commissar, Kathleen Sebelious, announced that religious institutions outside of actual houses of worship would be compelled to pay for insurance providing employees with birth control and abortifacients. Things their religious beliefs hold as immoral. When there was strong objection to this, they deemed that such institutions would not have to pay for this coverage, but that insurance companies would have to provide the coverage for free. Pretty much everyone on the planet could see that this amounted to six of one or a half dozen of the other. So people continued to object to the violation of religious freedom.

Then the left, i.e. the administration and their media allies, sprung their trap and turned the issue into a debate about the morality of birth control. They began to shriek and wail the Republicans wanted to ban contraceptives. And the Grandly Obtuse Party fell for it and began discussing the morality of birth control.

The debate about the evisceration of the First Amendment is over and we are now discussing the morality of condoms and the pill. The Left has given the Right a can of paint and brush and the Right has obligingly painted themselves into a corner.

The left wants a debate about birth control. They do not want a debate about the Constitutional protection of the right to exercise one's faith freely. They know they will win the condom debate. They know they will lose the freedom debate.

They know if the issue remains focused on religious freedom before long some brilliant commentator will offer the paraphrase:

Conservatives need to escape the trap. They need to remind everyone that this is not a fight about birth control but a fight for individual liberty and a Constitutionally limited government.

Allow the destruction of freedom for one and you accept the destruction of liberty for all.