The massive retirement and health benefits arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, GuideStone Financial Services, has made good on its threat to pivot from advocacy to litigation in defending beleaguered church health plans.
In its first-ever federal lawsuit, GuideStone has partnered with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Locke Lord LLP to file a class-action lawsuit against what Becket described as “the federal government’s mandate that [GuideStone clients] provide employees with free access to abortion-inducing drugs and devices.”
If they continue to use the language and categories of their opponents they will lose.
For example, “access” is always a universal good, whoever its subject and whatever its object. A “denier of access” is always a bad person. You will always be that bad person when you fall into your opponents’ trap of using the word “access” to mean “stuff for which other people are forced to pay”.