Michael.
Your tilting at windmills. The Right (like Chaput) have been feeding at the trough of the Far-Right for so long that they have totally forgotten that such a thing as other thoughts by very well meaning others and that nuance ever existed or have a right to exist. The last two popes promulgated this and believed it themselves. 
Those who live by the book (code of canon law) are always that way, aren't they.                                            the are people who care about "things" rather than people. They are NOT people who care about people. Christ cared about people. Those people like Chaput will kill others for god (lower case "g") even despite the fact that God said: "Thou shalt not kill".
 
And-- their existence is made ever richer and glorious by their struggle to defeat all others who differ in any way. These culture wars are their reason for living. If one exams their backgrounds one will discover the source of their living by the book and it's attendant anxiety.