Calculated business decision. Many of their operations would collapse without federal funding. Stopping Pelosi, Kerry and their ilk from sacrilegious behavior would be akin to biting the hand that feeds them. This call to "shut down the government" reeks of political theater and is particularly obnoxious considering their support of Obama's tyrannical executive order. They are apparently too clueless to understand the fact that socialists eventually eat their own.
ITA. It makes me wonder whether most of the Modernist movement within the Church is all about bringing in the money.