A Bush campaign religious advisor has resigned because his sexual harassment of a college student when he was a professor 10 years age has been dug up. Although the news coverage all calls it “alleged”, the result of the case ten years ago was that he “surrendered his tenure” and paid $30K. So, they were pretty compelling allegations, it would seem. From Bush Religion Adviser Quits Campaign Post:

Deal W. Hudson, publisher of the conservative Catholic magazine Crisis and a close ally of the Bush White House, has resigned as an adviser to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign because … “a liberal Catholic newspaper” was about to publish an investigation detailing “allegations from over a decade ago involving a female student at the college where I then taught”…. The article… published yesterday by the weekly National Catholic Reporter… chronicled how Hudson’s once-promising academic career was derailed by the sexual misconduct charge in 1994…. The alleged victim, Carastona Poppas, was an 18-year-old Fordham freshman who had been in and out of foster homes since age 7. Hudson was her philosophy teacher, a tenured associate professor who had been a Baptist minister before converting to Catholicism. “He knew I was a ward of the court, without parents, severely depressed, and even suicidal,” Poppas told the Catholic newspaper. “He was extremely attentive and genuinely concerned.” That attention allegedly went too far one night in February 1994 when Hudson invited her and several older students to a bar in New York’s West Village. They all got drunk, and he had sex with her in his car and office, the paper reported….

A spokeswoman for Fordham, Elizabeth Schmalz, issued a statement yesterday saying “sexual harassment is not tolerated” at the Catholic university. Without naming either Hudson or his accuser, she said, “Fordham followed its policy rigorously and initiated an investigation into the matter upon the student’s complaint. The professor later surrendered his tenure and left the University.”

Good thing Bush has all those good religiously-grounded values on his side.