Poor Dreher, I fear, didn't have the gumption to stand up to the clerics. My model is Father Neuhaus who in another time and place would have become a bishop. I am too old to be overawed by bishops or politicians.
I hate to break the news to Rod Dreher, but when I moved in Orthodox circles, sex scandals - that is, homosexual men going after teenagers (not pedophilia) - were a dime a dozen. The difference was that the Orthodox Church had no money, so there was no point in suing it. Furthermore, they would never had admitted it anyway, and on top of that, they were so low-profile they wouldn't even have made good fodder for the press.
If this was what started him on the road out of Rome - and then caused him to rexamine the Petrine claims! - I think he's got some sorry surprises awaiting him.