Money is fungible.
Conscientious Catholics who donated money to Catholic Charities in the future would in effect contribute to the support of domestic partnership arrangements which clearly contradict Catholic moral teaching. That unfortunate outcome, however, was not the worst aspect of the Archbishop's agreement with the City and County. Far more serious was his willingness, in effect, further to secularize Catholic Charities to keep the public money flowing. The Archbishop worried about which agency would pick up the slack if Catholic Charities were diminished in size. That was presumptuous.