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On the occasion of the Jerry Sandusky trial, Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, has a column over at Slate in which she mentions three incidents where she was sexually assaulted when she was young but didn’t tell her family or the police. About midway through she drops this bit about a famous left-wing priest and Democratic congressman:
The last incident was not child abuse, because I was no longer a minor, though I was still a teenager of 18 or 19. Several years earlier, my family had worked for the election of our congressman, Father Robert Drinan, an anti-Vietnam War, pro-choice priest. He was in town for a fundraiser or town meeting, and I went. Afterward he offered me a ride to the subway. (You’d think I would have learned.) He was in his 50s, and as he drove we chatted about college. We got to where he was letting me off, he turned off the engine, and he began jabbering incoherently about men and women. Then he lunged, shoving his tongue in my mouth while running his hands over my breasts and up and down my torso. It seems like the set-up for a joke, a Jewish woman being molested by a Jesuit. As we tussled, I had probably the most naïve thought of my life: “How could this be happening, he’s a priest!”
Congressman Drinan has been dead for five years, and his niece raises an obvious objection on behalf of the family: “We find it odd that anyone would come forward with this allegation decades later when our uncle is dead and in no position to defend himself.”
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.21.12 @ 10:11PM
As loathe as I am to give credit to an allegation about a man who can't defend himself, the late Congressman Drinan disregarded his priestly vows in other ways, so it is difficult to suggest that they might have inhibited him.
PCC| 6.21.12 @ 10:39PM
I think it's likely that Dear Prudence is a fantasist and a liar.
Dai Alanye | 6.22.12 @ 11:45AM
Why the defense of Drinan? Putting aside his being a spoiled priest, what good qualities did he have? Is there something about priests that automatically makes them above reproach?
The only good thing about him I'm familiar with is the fact that he's gone.
PCC| 6.22.12 @ 7:14PM
I give little credence to a sensational, unsupported, and politically convenient "he said, she said" allegation against a dead person concerning something that supposedly occurred decades ago.
That's why I think she's probably a fantasist and liar.
Bob K| 6.22.12 @ 1:11AM
The trial is taking place in rural Central Pennsylvania but if you pick up your local newspaper or turn on the television or radio anywhere in the state you would think it is the greatest news event since World War II ended!
Some how or other this important piece of news has been overlooked by the yellow journalists following and reporting on this spectacle.
Thank you so much, Mr. Antle, for bringing it to our attention through The Spectacle and giving Dear Prudence the publicity she craves!
ejp| 6.23.12 @ 11:43AM
Drinan was a classic example of what the Left used to love about religion in the public square. I don't think ever once was there any objection raised to the propriety of church/state separation when he was running and serving in Congress. It was only when you had conservative oriented ministers exercising their right to participate that suddenly they did their about-face.