In Maine, the Catholic Church has cut funding to a social services agency because they support gay marriage.

The Preble Street organization, which provides housing and other services to the poor and homeless, supported Maine's "No on 1" campaign, which opposed a ballot proposal to overturn gay marriage. And because of that, they'll lose $17,400 this year and $33,000 next year in promised donations from the Catholic Church.

Which means the Catholic Church is punishing homeless people because the organization that helps them isn't homophobic.

Does something about that ring a bell? Wait . . . I think I got it.

By defunding the Boy Scouts -- who discriminate against gays -- we liberals were punishing innocent young boys just because their parent organization was homophobic. And you can't blame kids because of what some adults did, right? That would be mean.

Also, by refusing to donate to the Salvation Army -- who discriminate against gays -- we were punishing poor people because of the actions of their parent organization. And that would be petty, right?

As usual with Republicans, there's a double standard. We're mean and petty, but they're just following God's law.

We're supposed to quietly tolerate groups we disagree with while they pull out the rug from under theirs.

We're supposed to be more beneficent than an allegedly-Christian organization. We're supposed to be more forgiving than a group headed by Jesus' alleged representative on earth.

The good news is, evidently that ain't too hard.