text: I think Fr. Jim Martin has laid out a smart, sensible way of dialogue between the Catholic Church and the LGBTQ community.  On the one hand language needs to change, and I would include with this the language of the Catechism itself calling same sex desires "objectively disordered" and things like the firings of LGBTQ workers in Catholic institutions needs to stop immediately. 
  
  On the other hand we also need to be realistic in terms of the changes someone like Pope Francis can initiate. Sometimes I get the feeling that some people think that because he isn't up to date with all the socially liberal trends of Western culture, therefore he's not worth listening too. Yes, he's a social conservative in his views on Gender and Sexuality. 
  
  However under him incremental strides have been made to be more inclusive on this from his historic statement "who am I to judge" to his historic call for an apology to the LGBTQ community.