From Apple’s MacBook Dictionary:
chaff, noun.
• worthless things; trash.
• strips of metal foil or metal filings released in the atmosphere from aircraft, or deployed as missiles, to obstruct radar detection or confuse radar-tracking missiles.
Chaff, in other words, is the perfect description of most of the liberal commentary about Wheaton College v. Burwell, a follow-up to the recent blockbuster Hobby Lobby opinion (discussed here) issued just before the July 4 weekend. Wheaton granted an injunction halting the imposition of the Obamacare contraception mandate on the evangelical college pending the outcome of its appeal.
Starting with Justice Sotomayor’s overheated, Chicken-Little dissent (“The contraception is falling!” [slightly modified quote from the original]), signed by the other two lady justices, most of the liberal commentary about what the Supreme Court majority did in Wheaton is pure, well, chaff. To see what it really held, see here, here, here, here, and here. These truth-detecting missiles were not deterred or obstructed.
And then, after you’ve read the knowledgeable commentary I’ve just linked (or before if you choose), see my “Hobby Lobby’s Impact on Colleges,” on Minding The Campus today.
