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The Church has claimed — and the president has tacitly accepted — the right to deny even its employees of other faiths the health-care services of which it doesn't approve on strictly doctrinal grounds. That is not an issue of "religious liberty." That's the enshrinement of religious thuggery in the secular law.
I think for the Obama political team, this is less a "home run or double play" question, and more of a "let's not fuck this election up, we are going to win by a ton" issue. The Obama political team thinks this solved a potential political problem when all they need to do is bring home the bacon in this election. And in the short term they have defused the issue, which is what they wanted to do.