Yesterday, during Day Two of Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., questioned Gorsuch on his Tenth Circuit concurring opinion in the Hobby Lobby case. The case was later adopted by the Supreme Court, which took the same side as Gorsuch had.

“There is an enduring tension or contest in our history between individual freedom and religious free exercise,” Coons began. Hopefully, this was a mistake, and he meant to say “establishment of religion” rather than “religious free exercise,” the latter being itself an individual freedom. Or maybe that really is what he meant. Either way, it’s a rather telling statement that seems to demonstrate where Democrats are trying to move the entire conversation about “freedom.”