What a difference words make

The Telegraph headline reads:  "Churches United Against Gay Laws."   "Gay laws" is strange enough, but put that aside.  When one actually reads the story, it turns out that the Church of England and the Catholic bishops in England are united in thinking that Catholic adoption agencies should not be required to comply with -- that is, that they should get a conscience-based exemption from -- anti-discrimination laws requiring adoption agencies to facilitate adoptions by same-sex couples.  In this headline -- as in many others I've seen about this issue -- the distinction (which strikes me as a meaningful one) between (a) opposing laws that allow same-sex couples to adopt and (b) opposing laws that forbid the state from discriminating against same-sex couples, on the one hand, and (c) trying to get a narrow exemption from such laws, on the other.  Unfortunate.