Monroe, N.Y. — “You have to love people. And, you know, Americans love people.”
We were standing outside the U.S. Supreme Court. It wasn’t this June’s decisions coming in. It was January 2014. And as I waited outside to get in, to support my friends who were plaintiffs and Catholic University of America professor Mark Rienzi — now the president of Becket, the religious-liberty defenders — we wondered why pro-lifers always wind up cold outside the Court. The Dobbs decision that undid Roe v. Wade in June 2022 did ultimately give us the opportunity for events in and around Independence Avenue in warmer weather. But it was another kind of warmth that lead plaintiff Eleanor McCullen wanted us to focus on, giving an impromptu fervorino to the press gathered for anything they could make news with.
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