Once again the artistsspeak out and cause change.  As Mike says, the powers that be in Hollywood are only concerned in making money and don’t voice their opinions about religion.

I’m always struck by how many of the great “screen lovers” were gay or bi men (and closeted, of course).  Valentino, Grant, Flynn, Power, Cooper, Hudson, Lancaster…the list is incredibly long.  How many straight men have gotten lessons in romance from gay men?  How many have gotten their notions of “virility” that way?  And how many of them would be totally freaked if they knew?

How ridiculous is it to speculate that the Catholic Church would be hurt…by Anne Hathaway’s exit?  The last half-century has been one long abuse scandal and the church history before that is a hell of a lot uglier.  I seriously doubt the loss of that woman from Get Smart is going to bring the institution to its knees.

No, but it is a well done statement of protestand we need more of them. It is not so much Anne Hathaway leaving, but the ceaseless trickle of people leaving over the issue can make a difference, if they are willing to speak out, as Anne did.
Realistically, the Church will simply become more intransigent, as it did in Spain after many departed when John Paul II canonised Franco’s notoroious and misogynistic chaplain as a Saint and again when Benedict XVI ccanonised many Phalangist clergy war dead from the Civil War at a time that the Government was looking into Church sanctioned mass murders of leftists by Franco’s Phlangists.
It doesn’t make the Church rethink anything, but this steady trickle helps to equally steadily weaken their moral authority.
It has made a world of difference in Spain, but there people are willing to list the Church’s cumulative sins…as opposed to here where memory seems to be momentary…

I agreeJoy Behar asked ridiculously inane questions. Whenever I’ve caught some of her interviews, I’ve been less than impressed. She sounds here like she’s barely prepared and barely interested.

Spain is differentSpain was overwhelmingly Catholic, which makes it very different from the U.S. In Spain, the Church tied itself so closely to Franco that it lost its moral authority years ago, hence the changes in laws that the Church fought and lost.
I know many Catholics, have known many, opposed to Church stands on many issues, but they live their lives and don’t stand up and speak out, so I don’t see it making much of a difference that they protest in silent action.

Lesser of evils?One could:
A- leave the Church and allow it to become more conservative with no internal opposition;
B- stay to protest from within, at the risk of appearing at times to support the Vatican hierarchy.
I genuinely don’t know which is better/worse.
I’d emphasize that not everything the Vatican says is pure evil. JPII was a leader in workers’ rights and economic justice. On matters of sexuality, of course, they are so far beyond the curve as to be running in the wrong direction, but the positions deserve to be taken case by case.

Speaking as someone raised in a cult (mormon)There is no changing a religious institution from within on the basis of the merits of change. The only reason an institution does anything is because it becomes monetarily expedient for the institution to do so. For reference, please see the mormons and people of color.
Let’s be realistic. The more congregants – especially famous wealthy ones – who publicly leave a religious institution and hurt the bottom line, the more the institution will be pressured to change by the leadership, who feel the hit in their pockets. Denominations don’t let go of bigotry out of a sense of decency. They evolve out of a sense of self-preservation. When racism, blatant misogyny, and homophobia turn decent people away from a church, that church loses money.
See again the mormons. Prop 8 was a huge publicity hit for them. mormon missionaries report being shunned, spit on, having more doors slammed in their faces than ever. IOW, loss of tithing revenue from potential converts. So what have they done? The leadership is now telling Utah legislators to back off the virulence, to even consider some less discriminatory behaviors and ordinances.
There is no changing a church from within. The only way to change it is to drain the coffers and the membership until it is forced to evolve or die.

Democracy vs Theocracy 
He needs to visit Islamic countries without protection.  Just him walking naked through the streets with a wooden cross.
America gives him the red carpet treatment like a King and he loves it, making the Vatican more powerful.  

To weaken the Church you need only repeat two words:“Altar Boy”

yes yes and yesyou can truly change a stand-alone church from within, but not a top-down institution like the roman catholic church or the mormon church.  they simply are not structured to listen to the laity in terms other than ka-ching.