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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"I doubt our Religion Mod would even pull this."
That is the nicest thing she wrote. It gets REALLY nasty. Check Michelle Malkin's page.
Perhaps Edwards will shut down his campaign a week after The Hildabeast ends her campaign.
That would remove two low lives from the 2008 presidential chase.
Don't fret none. He'll never make it out of the starting gate, thanks in no small part to his association with Kerry and the 2004 elections.
The dry cleaner called, your sheets are ready.
It is important that Edwards stay in the race for as long as possible. The more primaries that he contests, the further left he will pull the Clinton platform. She can't run a BS centrist campaign with outwardly leftist candidates in contention.
FWIW, Johnnie claimed to be a good ol' Southern Baptist on Sunday's "Beat the Mess" with Tim Russet, then when questioned said he didn't believe homosexuality was a sin.
LOL!
It is important that Edwards stay in the race for as long as possible. The more primaries that he contests, the further left he will pull the Clinton platform. She can't run a BS centrist campaign with outwardly leftist candidates in contention.That's true. I hope is decline is long and slow. All I'm saying is his decline, even among the rats, is inevitable. There's no there there. Just hair.
True. Even the mole is gone these days. I've often wondered why silky didn't make the mole work for him the way Cindy Crawford did.
The FR types can't hold a candle to the malice shown by these women. So the moderators must be doing a good job.
I get it: It's ok to be a little bit openly biggoted here then?
If Edwards is lucky, he'll be HUD secretary the next time we face the unfortunate event of a Democrat in the WH. There's certainly no way he'll be in the WH himself.
The Pope Boniface that you were referring to, Boniface VIII, died in 1303. At that time it was also the Church's official position that the sun revolved around the Earth. Vatican II indicated that non-believers could be saved. Interestingly, unlike a lot of non-Catholic faiths, Catholicism teaches that salvation requires work on the part of the individual. In other words, it is not enough for Catholics to simply believe. Getting into Heaven requires action.
I grew up in East Texas, so I have been dealing with Baptist bigots since I was a teen. These gals make Jack Chick seem like Billy Graham. I think they are possessed, more or less like the diapered astronaut was possessed.
Thank you.
Thank you.
"Should he also ban those bigots who don't believe there can be salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church?
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."
Oh, when did this change? Throughout the 8 yrs I spent in Catholic School we were taught that Catholics were the only ones that went to heaven. But that was many years ago.
Presuambly that was prior to Vatican II, but in any case, RTFT. The Vatican document Dominus Iesus published by then Cardianal Ratzinger in 2000 also specifically states that some religious beliefs are subjective, and that salvation can occur outside the Church. Are you still a Catholic today?
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