And homosexuals? This is the man who wrote in Peninsula that he was "homoelemontic" that he pitied gays because they "can't be happy". The Supposedly unhappy ones were none the happier for Wasinger's sympathy.

The conservatism may have been imbibed together with his mother's milk, but Wasinger came into his own at Harvard. At public school in Kansas, he was quit and kept a low profile, and in two years at Deerfield Academy he concentrated on academics and getting into Harvard.

The Catholicism emerged at Harvard as well. "It was very much an intellectual decision that was motivated by faith," says Wasinger who says his Protestant parents "respect my decision."

Underneath it all, according to his wife Meghan Wasinger, Rob is "a very sweet man."

Yes, that's right. His wife, Wasinger was married in November and Meghan, who was attracted to Rob's "strong sense of morals," is expecting a child in early September.

Meghan, a student at Thomas Moore College in Merrimac, N.H., is the sister of Peninsula founder Sean McLaughlin. According to Wasinger, she is "the greatest girl in the world."

They go to the beach together and out to dinner and to the movies and sometimes even to prayer vigils outside abortion clinics.

After graduation, Wasinger plans to spend the summer relaxing on Cape Cod and preparing for the arrival of his son. (He says he turned down an offer to work in New York for a company that participated in Harvard's on-campus recruiting program.) He's not sure what his eventual career will be, but, he says, his family will come first.