Catholics shirking responsibility? No surprise.
The Catholic Church suffers from the same social ills as the surrounding society.
When you get the mass hysteria for Michael Jackson and monsters like Roman Polanski, you get a better idea who the real source of the degeneracy.
Just as in the time of our Lord, the crowds wanted Barabas.
To some extent I agree with you. The Catholic Church has not behaved well in this crisis, going back several decades. So, you are right, it's not a big surprise.
On the other hand it's sad to see the ACLU, an organization that once defended the first ammendment primarily, spending so much time and effort on the persecution of a religious group. Really, when did that become their mission? I think it's a huge stretch, but probably no more so of one than their near rabid support for abortion over the last twenty years or so.
I remember thinking that Bush 1 was out of line when he called Dukakis a "card carrying member of the ACLU", making an obvious communist allusion. At that point I didn't really feel that ACLU deserved the level of ridicule that Bush was focusing on them.
They certainly do now, and this last instance of gratuitous Catholic bashing is just one more example of an organization that is totally off course.