This might seem bizarre, but it makes more sense when you realize that Teabaggers are generally much more fundamentalist than Catholics are.

“generally much more fundamentalist than Catholics”?

The Catholic Church is not fundamentalist at all. Actually most mainstream churches are NOT fundamentalist, the problem is in the US Christianity is viewed by the American created variants; evangelicals (“non-denominational churches, etc). The Catholic Church, like the Protestant Church, don’t promote Creationism. Heck, it was a Jesuit Priest that first proposed the idea of the Big Bang.

By fundamentalist here I’m going by one of the key aspects to determine that in the Christian tradition, which is Bible literalism.

I’m totally not surprised by this move, I think it’s great. Aside from abortion and gay marriage, the Catholic Church is definitely not in touch with Tea Party dogma (ex: Immigration, help for the poor, etc)