Hard to tell whether Garvey is playing dumb, thinks we're dumb or is just angling for the job of director of the Smithsonian Museum of Strawmen.

The concern is not that the KoC's money is enshrining the Church's positions in secular law. And it's not that Catholics who dislike the KoC's emphasis aren't getting equal time. Two big fat strawmen.

The concern is the KoC leadership is soliciting money from Catholics, professing to lobby for things the Church supports, but actually using it to lobby for tax cuts and deregulation that line their already very cozy pockets.

One can't help noticing that the KoC's favorite political party has never diminished the abortion rate a hundredth of a percent point, but has managed to cut taxes on incomes in Carl Anderson's bracket several times. (Unlike, incidentally, the birth control mandate in the ACA, which seems to have cut the abortion rate by several points within a few years.)