Bradley on the HHS mandate

My friend and colleague Gerry Bradley has a worth-a-read essay up at Public Discourse on l'affaire HHS mandate.  As he points out, even if this particular fracas dissolves, because the Supreme Court throws out the Affordable Care Act, or Gov. Romney wins the election, or Pres. Obama relents, the debate reflects a deeper, first-principles-level tension between religious freedom and some understanding of political liberalism.  He writes:

. . .  The ideological commitments that have emboldened the Obama administration about contraception are deeply held. They are held to be very important. They are resilient. They are not limited to the reproductive rights supposedly protected by access to contraception, even when contraception is broadly defined to include abortifacient drugs. These deep convictions about liberty and equality and religion entail trouble for religious liberty, no matter which exit route the present mandate takes. . . .