Comment: I stated some opinions, and you labeled them "demands".  You included things that I had not mentioned, but ascribed those opinions to me.  That's not what I describe as civil conversation , but .....
I am a progressive, but I do not speak on behalf of " those who call themselves progressive".  I don't know of any "demands that any of us have made of the Church.  I have not heard of any group of us calling to have no Pope.
Quite frankly, I don't worry about when it is a mortal or venial sin to engage in sex outside of marriage, because that is not something in which I engage.  I mostly worry about my own sins and shortcomings.  Categorizing the sins of others is something that I consider to be above my pay grade.