Six clergy I know from local parishes as well as they grew up in my neighborhood were at the MA state house when the Marriage Amendment was being debated. The arch-diocese would have been okay with Civil Unions. But, there was a group of over the top priests there shouting Civil marriage down. My friends new these guys fro Saint John’s Seminary and they were the flamers. If you want to destroy something. You do it best from within.
As Our Lord Himself was subverted by one He has chosen. He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me. Interesting book: AA-1026 the story of a Communist assigned to become a priest in order to do that very thing.