What you may have heard is how racially polarized the country is in its reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown. But polarization is the wrong concept here.
We are confronted with a conservative judiciary using any argument it can to win ideological victories that elude their side in the elected branches of government.
It’s unfortunate that the Obama administration’s initial, parsimonious exemption for religious groups helped ignite the firestorm that led to Hobby Lobby.
To know you need help that you cannot somehow conjure up through your own power frees you. You have to turn from yourself to something outside yourself.