+Broglio Finally Nixes Chicken Little Routine

After fretting about the effects ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" would have on the U.S. military and the chaplaincies over which he has authority, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military finally fessed up and said the change in policy was not having much of an effect. "There have been no overt difficulties," he told a newspaper reporter. "It's more a question of what might occur in the future." Hmmm. What might occur in the future? The Mayans could be proven right and the world could end. Obama could lose and Romney could revisit the issue and re-implement Don't Ask, Don't Tell, although I doubt he would and I doubt the leadership of the military would want him to do so. Who knows about the future, but one thing is clear about the past: Dire, chicken-little like warnings about the dire consequences of treating gay men and women like other people almost never look smart or realistic in the rear view mirror. (h/t Rocco.)