Posted on 02/07/2007 11:10:00 AM PST by presidio9
Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded that Edwards fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.
"John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash-talking bigots," Donohue wrote in a statement. "He has no choice but to fire them immediately."
The Edwards campaign declined to comment. McEwan and Marcotte did not respond to e-mails requesting a response.
Donohue cited posts that the women made on blogs in the past several months in which they criticized the pope and the church for its opposition to homosexuality, abortion and contraception, sometimes using profanity.
"The Catholic church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics," Marcotte wrote on the blog Pandagon on December 26, in an excerpt cited by Donohue.
Among the McEwan posts that Donohue listed was one she posted on February 21, 2006, on her site, Shakespeare's Sister. She questioned what religious conservatives don't understand about "keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?"
Edwards put both bloggers on his payroll
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Edwards is a closet bigot. The man turns my stomach. I hope his campaign goes down in flames (fanned by Hillary.)
Now if only Jim and his staffers would get serious about ridding FR of all the anti-Catholic biggots who hang out on this site.
I'm betting that Edwards has oily hair...
An ambulance-chasing closet bigot, at that.
Edwards IS oily.
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Maybe Edwards could send the two blogresses to WalMart to buy him a brain.
Obama has race as an issue, other than that, he has nothing. Edwards has... nothing.
It's inevitable that his Brecky face will slowly sink below the waves. I just hope it happens slow, so that he swallows lots of seawater on his way down.
How about providing us with the names of posters that you would include in this list?
Should he also ban those bigots who don't believe there can be salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church?
If shyster Edwards fired all the bigots on his staff who would do the work for him?
They turn up on virtually every thread involving the Catholic Church. Check it out for yourself. Or better yet wait here. They may be along shortly.
Sure, good idea. But since the Catholic Church itself does not believe that, that list should be pretty small. And, of course, anyone who thinks that way is rejecting Catholic doctrine, and is therefore not a Catholic. But thanks for playing.
I doubt our Religion Mod would even pull this.
Incidently, when was the last time the Church actually had tithing?
You should read what they say about white males in general. Also, they still believe the Duke LAX players are guilty. There is a disgusting rant about that archived on Liebusters.com.
"Liberal" bloggers are always demagogic.
What Edwards needs to do is go out and hire good writers instead of liberal bloggers -- and being able to make that distinction, is the first test of his qualification for leadership (identifying good people).
Something tells me that the Democratic race for the presidential nomination is going to be taken right out of the pages of professional wrestling scripts.
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