Within four months we've lost two of the finest people ever to serve as Congressmen from Massachusetts -- and, to my way of thinking, the two best legislators I've seen in my lifetime. Gerry Studds, who represented the 10th Congressional District (South Shore and Cape Cod), died in October, and Fr. Robert Drinan, who represented the 4th Congressional District (Newton and Brookline to New Bedford and Fall River), passed on last night.
The former was the first openly gay national politician in the US, and the latter was a Roman Catholic priest who irritated his superiors so much that Pope John Paul II demanded that he step down in 1980. Both men put conscience before politics and few of their like can be found today.
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