text: I'm happy to explain why John takes this path. He is famous here for trying to jam words and attitudes into people who hold opinions divergent from his, even if these opinions are consistent with Catholic teaching.   He's really intolerant of diversity and quite judgemental in how he goes about discourse.   He needs to make "caricatures" of other's views in order that he can dismiss them, because he's not able to do so on purely rational grounds.