text: Religious liberty was NOT at stake. Religious liberty was a timely excuse to thrust a dagger in a strategy of killing Obamacare by a thousand cuts. The foundation of the case was not religious liberty but a corporation's legal status as a person. Hobby Lobby is a terrible decision, introducing arbitrariness and imponderables into the system and ripe for abuse.
  
  Little Sisters is simply the non-profit version of the challenge, though the case ultimately concerned the Sisters' rejection of the government's accommodation based on the Catholic Church's degrees of mediate material cooperation. (One wonders if the church has ever before in the history of the US brought such refined scruple to bear on public policy.)
  
  Your obscurantist verbiage notwithstanding.