National Organization for Marriage's unscrupulous Bryan Brown still flogging his lie about Catholic Charities

Bryan Brown debated a lackluster Susan of Lambda Legal about gay marriage last week on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and managed one outright lie and one outrageous deception in the same sentence when he implied that the State of Massachusetts shut down the Catholic Charities adoption agency because of same sex marriage. The truth, of course, is that the state told Catholic Charities that it couldn't discriminate against qualified gay couples in adoption with taxpayer funding, so the organization chose to close and leave children in the lurch. And the state's beef wasn't gay marriage but the state's inclusion of gays as a class protected from discrimination in 1989.
     The Mormons still run an adoption agency in Massachusetts — because they no longer discriminate with taxpayer money, but with their own. Host Juana Summers allowed Brown to get away with the same blatant, two-pronged falsehood that he has peddled dozens of times in televised interviews.
  From the C-SPAN transcript ("Charities" misspelling corrected), which only covered the first 1/3 of the show:

     15:24 PEOPLE ARE REALLY HARMED WHEN CATHOLIC CHARITIES ADOPTION AGENCY IN MASSACHUSETTS IS SHUT DOWN BECAUSE THE STATE SAYS NOW THAT WE HAVE SAME SEX MARRIAGE IT'S DISCRIMINATION FOR YOUR RELIGIOUS ADOPTION AGENCY NOT TO PLACE CHILDREN WITH SAME SEX COUPLES. CHILDREN ARE HARMED WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
     39:43 [AKSARBENT transcript] Think about the reality that we now have religious organizations told that they can't place needy children for adoption simply because they, according to the dictates of their conscience, can't place children with same sex couples. That is a direct threat to religious liberty.