apply the statute as best we could understand its purpose as expressed in its text. and i think every judge who faced that case, everyone, found it a hard case and did their level best. and that's all any judge can promise or guarantee. i respect all of my colleagues who addressed that case. >> we respect you for doing so. you wrote a concurring opinion in the hobby lobby case. you wrote about the religious freedom restoration act this way. it does perhaps its most important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs, vindicating the nation's longstanding aspiration to serve as a refuge of religious tol lance, unquote. congress enacted rfra to apply broadly and robustly to ensure that, among other things, the little guy would be protected as