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For clarification, I think some of the commenters were under the impression Dreher left out of support for sodomy, he did not. He initially left because the RCC diocese where in he resided had become spiritually poisonous and the pedophile scandal which he had covered as a reporter had left him deeply scarred. He was also concerned that it was not a spiritually safe environment for his family. Nor is he a Protestant. He joined the Orthodox Church.

“I think some of the commenters were under the impression Dreher left out of support for sodomy...”

Really? Like who? I just scanned the comments and didn’t see any that seemed to show any such impression. Did I miss it?

Many disaffected Catholics became Orthodox in the really bad times after VII, but a number have returned. The Orthodox deal with the whole problem by never discussing morality at all, and you can just coast along with their beautiful liturgy without being troubled by anything else. I attended an Orthofox church for a while, and about half the congregation was gay. They also had a huge gay scandal a few years ago that involved not only a couple of bishops, but a Metroploitan. It was a scandal only because there had been some financial hanky pinky as well, btw.

I guess converts feel that the Orthodox are at least not hypocrites, since they never talk about morality - particularly sexual morality - in the first place!

For clarification, I think some of the commenters were under the impression Dreher left out of support for sodomy, he did not. He initially left because the RCC diocese where in he resided had become spiritually poisonous and the pedophile scandal which he had covered as a reporter had left him deeply scarred.

Mrs. Don-o has provided a broader view of the larger picture in her post above. In fact, Dreher did not leave because of a specific parish. He had also been covering a scandal in the Albany Diocese that involved the sudden death of a devout priest. It was an accrual of many factors that prompted his decision.

While working for the NY Post, Dreher and his wife resided in Brooklyn where they attended Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral. Following 9-11, Dreher wrote:

"Monsignor Ignace Sadek, the elderly pastor of the Maronite cathedral near the Brooklyn waterfront, went to the promenade park overlooking lower Manhattan and prayed for absolution for the dying as the towers burned. When the first building crumbled, and the terrible cloud of smoke, debris, and incinerated human remains began its grim march across the harbor, Monsignor Sadek remained at his post praying. The falling ash turned him into a ghost. Still, he stayed as long as he could. This is a man who came through the civil war in Lebanon, and he doesn’t run.
"People could see I was a priest," he told me later (he is my pastor). "They ran to me and knelt at my feet, and begged for absolution." Think of that: The people of this proud, defiantly secular city, driven to their knees in prayer, begging for mercy in a hot, gray fog. That is what purgatory must be like."

Rod's attendance at the Maronite Divine Liturgies opened a window on the beauty of the East. Msgr. Sadek just passed away last month..