Raw Deal

Eschaton is right, Tapped is on a roll today. They fill in more of the backstory of Deal Hudson's actions at Fordham in 1994. It's even worse then I had understood it to be yesterday.

This ‘vulnerable freshman’ was not simply an overly impressionable 18-year-old, by the way. Cara Poppas was a ward of the state of Maine when she arrived to Fordham. The middle of nine children, she was the daughter of an alcoholic and a disabled Vietnam vet. Since the age of seven, she had bounced in and out of foster care. And the thrice-married, 45-year-old Prof. Deal Hudson knew all of this -- before he ever laid a hand on her. Hudson’s resignation essay would lead you to believe that his offense was committed as an unchurched wayward sinner who didn’t know any better. But the incident took place in 1994 -- twelve years after Hudson’s grand rebirth as an orthodox Catholic.

George W. Bush has so many upstanding supporters. Real men of faith and character.