{"id":126,"date":"2010-12-02T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/12\/archbishop-broglio-hearts-dadt.html"},"modified":"2010-12-02T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:23:33","slug":"archbishop-broglio-hearts-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/12\/archbishop-broglio-hearts-dadt.html","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Broglio hearts DADT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inasmuch as I previously singled out evangelical chaplains as<br \/>\nresponsible for the intensity of resistance to doing away with Don&#8217;t<br \/>\nAsk, Don&#8217;t Tell, it seems only fair to note the comparable opposition of<br \/>\nthe Catholic-in-charge, Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the Military<br \/>\nServices USA. To be sure,<i> <\/i>Broglio does not threaten to withhold<br \/>\npriestly services from known homosexuals, nor does he cry wolf about<br \/>\nsupposed First Amendment threats to the chaplain corps.<\/p>\n<p>But otherwise, his  <a href=\"http:\/\/onfaith.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2010\/12\/catholic_archbishop_for_the_military_services_usa_dont_repeal_dadt.html\">letter<\/a> (published in the <i>Washington Post<\/i>&#8216;s<br \/>\nOn Faith section) wouldn&#8217;t get a passing grade in a moral reasoning<br \/>\nmidterm. &#8220;There is no doubt that morality and the corresponding good<br \/>\nmoral decisions have an effect on unit cohesion and the overall morale<br \/>\nof the troops and effectiveness of the mission.&#8221; Yes, and doesn&#8217;t that<br \/>\nmean making sure that heterosexual service personnel refrain from sexual<br \/>\nactivity out of wedlock? How exactly would the situation differ if<br \/>\nhomosexuals were allowed to name themselves as such?<\/p>\n<p>Broglio goes on to analogize homosexuals to alcoholics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years, those struggling with alcoholism have benefitted from<br \/>\nAlcoholics Anonymous.  Like homosexuality, there is rarely a cure.<br \/>\nThere is a control through a process, which is guarded by absolute<br \/>\nsecrecy.  It is an equivalent to &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask don&#8217;t tell&#8221;.  The process<br \/>\nhas worked well for some time without the charge that it is<br \/>\ndiscriminatory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, your excellency, it&#8217;s not equivalent to DADT. Alcoholics are free to<br \/>\ntell whomever they like that that&#8217;s what they are. And everybody within<br \/>\nan AA group knows each other. That&#8217;s kind of the whole point. Maybe the<br \/>\nidea is for unadmitted gays and lesbians to get together in Homosexuals<br \/>\nAnonymous groups to achieve &#8220;a control through a process.&#8221; Is that,<br \/>\nlike, the gays-in-the-priesthood model? The mind boggles.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inasmuch as I previously singled out evangelical chaplains as responsible for the intensity of resistance to doing away with Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, it seems only fair to note the comparable opposition of the Catholic-in-charge, Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services USA. 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After teaching at Harvard in the Department of History and Literature for three years, he became editor of the Boston Review. In 1987 he joined the staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked variously as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist. In 1996 he became the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and in 1998 founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center that examines how the news media handle religious subject matter. In 2005, he was named director of the Trinity College Program on Public Values, comprising both the Greenberg Center and a new Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture directed by Barry Kosmin. In 2007, he became Professor of Religion in Public Life at the College. Professor Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. He is co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, and co-author of The American Establishment, Making Capitalism Work, and One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics. 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