I would say, rather, that they use the current example as an excuse, reason, rationale, in order to further their own self-indulgence in antiCatholicism, or indeed, in somehow justifying it to themselves.
Anti-Catholicism is the Fundamentalist religion. I can’t help but note their smug arrogance when Catholics quote scripture, claiming we lack the Holy Spirit, and only THEY can understand it.
No Protestant reads the Bible without starting with a firm foundation of anti-Catholicism.
Anti-Catholicism comes first then the Bible. So what Luther believed in the sacraments. For crying out loud, my devotion to the sacraments began when I was a LUTHERAN.
The only difference between Lutherans an Catholics when it comes to what is or what is not a sacraments is the definition.
Lutherans say a sacrament is something that was COMMANDED by Christ that commends grace, while Roman Catholics and most Orthodox Christians say that a sacrament/sacred mystery is something that was INSTITUTED by Christ that commends grace.
My old priest friend said the best thing to do is to avoid engaging in Bible bingo with Protestants because it always becomes an un-Christian game of egotism.