text: One wonders how the Institution of the Catholic Church benefits by cutting such schisms between itself and our social plurality. They've literally been exhibiting this incivil behavior and contempt for the civic gods since the Edict of Thessalonica. You'd think they'd step lightly, so as to not break eggshells. You'd think they'd step as if it is a place where angels fear to tread. You'd think they'd step as if the abject history of their Institution's fearsome acts of spiritual genocide and exploitation weren't sitting there in front of us all. Holy crap, dudes. What are you even thinking when you start burning bridges proffered? Such behavior is anathema to civilization.