Yesterday, Tony Perkins spoke with Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV about the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, which Perkins asserted was not about the issue of contraception coverage at all, but was really an effort by the Obama administration to weaken religious freedom as part of the long-term goal of implementing a “liberal, anti-religious agenda.”

This was about breaking “through the firewall,” Perkins said, “that has long existed around religious freedom in this country and if they could have forced businesses on this issue, in this manner, there would be nothing stopping them from advancing their liberal, anti-religious agenda.”

Predicting that Obama would now double down after the loss at the Supreme Court, Perkins said that conservative Christians must “be vigilant and we’ve gotta push back” because Obama is going to become even “more aggressive in pushing his agenda” to completely destroy religious liberty in America: