Fr. Martin has been way too respectful and even then he was tossed from American Magazine as publisher. The fact is that the hierarchy cannot handle the truth, even the personal truth of many of its members and priests, who have a sexual orientation much rarer than the homosexuals they seek to force into celibacy and the priesthood.  Less common in society and more common in the clergy are those who settle into celibacy as natural for them, those of the Asexual orientation.  The way to argue the theology of sex is not the merits, since the Church will argue scripture and tradition to resist, even as they are proof texting both badly. Instead, it is time to "out them" and demonstrate that the ancient and modern clergy of this orientation are promoting their unique sexuality and that it does not apply to the rest of us. Until the truth is revealed, we will be stuck in  a morality that is not appropriate to the vast majority of us. Martin should write about that.