It's a weather balloon, attempting to dismiss contraception as a health issue via religious objection, as a prelude to hamstringing ALL mandated health care via similar religious objections. That's what the Blunt amendment was about. That's the direction it was going.

Which is absolutely appropriate.

Some people, alas, forgot to read the playbook, and thought it was just about dismissing contraception. They let the cat out of the bag by aiming their lasers a bit too specifically at contraception. Limbaugh is one, and Foster "Asprin between their legs" Friess is another.

The lasers were pointed at contraception because a) that was the mandate put in place and b) because they're significant religious and moral opposition to it.