Civil disobedience no longer is for liberals only.

• Author: Deace, Steve
• Position: Law & Justice

SINCE the turbulent 1960s, acts of civil disobedience often have been associated with liberal politics. That may explain why Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli made national news when he asserted Christians may need to be willing to go to jail to defend their constitutionally-protected freedom of religion.

Cuccinelli, a devout Catholic whose wife homeschools their seven children, likely will be the next Republican nominee for governor of his state. Loved by conservatives and loathed by liberals for his strong convictions, Cuccinelli, as a lawyer, is used to working within the system for what he believes. That is why he was one of several attorneys general to sue the Obama Administration over ObamaCare, and recently defeated the Environmental Protection Agency in court for its attempt to classify water as a pollutant in a Virginia county.

However, asked about the Christian owners of Hobby Lobby suing the Administration over its contraceptive mandate contained in ObamaCare on the grounds it violates their constitutionally-protected religious freedom, Cuccinelli explained that, when all else fails, civil disobedience may be the only remaining option.

"I think you're going to see more Hobby Lobbies out there from people who are just not willing to take this," he asserts. "Part of [ObamaCare] is an attack on the Catholic Church. My local bishop said he told a group he was ready to go to jail. I told him, 'Bishop, don't take this personally, but you need to go to jail.' What I mean by that is people need to see it play out all the way to its logical conclusion, and [Hobby Lobby] is making them do ii. God bless them."

Hobby Lobby--which, according to its company website, was founded on "honoring the Lord in a manner consistent with Biblical principles"--is joining more than 100 Evangelical and Catholic businesses, colleges, and universities in various lawsuits seeking to overturn the contraceptive mandate in ObamaCare, or to he given what amounts to a conscientious objector exemption for religious reasons. The Catholic Church always has opposed contraception on moral grounds. Not all Evangelicals agree--unless the birth control is what is known as an abortifacient, which is interference with a pregnancy after conception (a form of abortion).

Hobby Lobby says the government demanding it provide abortifacients as a benefit to its employees violates its religious freedom, because government is demanding the company participate in the taking of...