can someone explain?

Can someone explain something I am missing? 

In the Hobby Lobby decision, the majority of the Supreme Court (5-4, none of the female justices voting with the majority, fwiw) said it was wrong for the government to compel the owners of a privately-held company to pay for the contraceptive part of the Affordable Care Act to which they had religious objections. At the same time, the majority decision said they were ways around it, such as public funding of those contraception provisions in the instance of those companies, and also that other areas where some people have religious objections, such as vaccinations, might not be allowed the same opt-out privilege (of providing such coverage to employees).

So some inconsistencies pop out at me: first, if the coverage is okay for taxpayers to fund, then presumably the owners of Hobby Lobby, as taxpayers, are still on the hook for some of the cost of the contraceptive coverage they object to, albeit a much smaller proportion. 

So paying a smaller amount for that coverage--coverage which it's mandated that *every other for-profit company in the country provide*--is okay? 

So if it's cheap enough, religious objections don't matter? 

Secondly, why is contraceptive coverage somehow more special than vaccination coverage? The objections to both, I am sure, are equally sincere.

Finally, if one can opt out of paying the government for specific areas where one has a moral objection, I'd like to submit a list of my objections.

A Mennonite couple, Paul and Loretta Leatherman of Lancaster, Pa., have refused to pay war taxes for more than 20 years. While the Court finds objecting to contraceptive coverage is okay, the IRS is always enabled to collect the unpaid war taxes by withdrawing directly from the Leathermans' bank accounts.

Are their objections less real or religious than the owners of Hobby Lobby? After all, Mennonites are one of the groups afforded--by past Court decisions--automatic Conscientious Objector status.

Can anyone help me understand?

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