text: If someone is going to appeal to the masses, Catholic and non-Catholic to change church teaching, it should be the Pope.  What if Martin were challenging transubstantiation, claiming that the bread and wine were merely symbolic?  That's an easy one to get the secularists and cafeteria Catholics on board to believe.  Where would the Pope be on that?
  
  In essence, Martin is taking on the entire Catholic Church single-handedly (with, no doubt, a strong cabal of the gay mafia backing him), appealing to the secularists and Protestants, making claims that there is some issue with the existing compassion that the Church has for people with same-sex attraction.  It is an attack on the Church, a claim that the Church has done nothing to help those with same-sex attraction.  He is like Judas, betraying the Church and appealing to the mob, and the Pope is allowing it.