Characterizing Catholic Charities, regardless of what diocese it is operating in, as the best Catholic organization in the country is also nuts. Lots of socialists who thumb their noses at the teachings of the Church work for Catholic Charities. Much of the good that is done is cancelled out by the bad. Also, in 20 years, Boston CC placed 13 children with homosexual couples.
Forget the financial connection between the state and Mass. Cath. Charities.
The reason Catholic Charities can't continue providing adoption services in Massachusetts, even without state or federal funding, without violating God's Law, is because the state licenses all adoption agencies and won't license CC because of its principled and correct stance.
The key sentence in Jacoby's story is this one:
"The church's request for a conscience clause should have been unobjectionable, at least to anyone whose priority is rescuing kids from foster care. Those who spurned that request out of hand must believe that adoption is designed primarily for the benefit of adults, not children. The end of Catholic Charities' involvement in adoption may suit the Human Rights Campaign. But it can only hurt the interests of the damaged and vulnerable children for whom Catholic Charities has long been a source of hope."
worth repeating so you never forget it:
"Those who spurned that request out of hand must believe that adoption is designed primarily for the benefit of adults, not children."