One of the main arguments against Hobby Lobby in the contraception case was that the mandate “was the law” and the protections of the 1st Amendment could be restricted because it didn’t stop anyone from worshiping in private. In other words, your public rights protected by the 1st Amendment do not exist, particularly if commerce is involved.
This, of course, is one of the root beliefs of the Left: Everyone submits themselves totally to the state, and are rewarded by the Volonté Générale (General Will). Rights are determined, not directly by a democratic vote, but are divined by “democracy”… and to go against the “General Will” is to go against the false god of the state/society.
Rights, then, are to balanced according to the will of society as determined by haruspices of the state. Thus, rights might be considered “innate,” but it is the state that divines the “innateness” of the state. Thus, what the state giveth, the state can always taketh away. This ought to be fair warning to the socialists and other fellow-goers who cheer-lead the trampling of the 1st Amendment (which was written to protect people from them):
“To rely on government to mandate contraceptive coverage is to give government the power to control contraception.”

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