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This is unrelated, but in the article you mentioned, it quotes him as saying:

"It’s like the Alcoholics Anonymous model, where the first of the Twelve Steps requires us to take a fearless moral inventory.

I was made an honorary member of AA when I was a municipal judge and I used to speak often to AA groups and I occasionally still do. I tell them that they are the lucky ones; they know what’s wrong with them; the rest of us just have to guess. "

First, The First step of AA is: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives became unmanageable. Hello, the inventory does not come till Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Second, nobody is ever made an "Honorary Member of AA".

Sorry, but I have been sober for over 17 years and this guy is using AA to make a point. If he knew anything about AA, he would know that in the 12 traditions it states in tradition 10:
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

This guy is a class act.
Sorry, I just got really ticked.