NEW YORK (CNA) – The second of two bloggers hired by the John Edwards U.S. presidential campaign resigned Feb. 13, following continued pressure from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights over anti-Catholic comments posted on the Internet.Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights President Bill Donohue told the Associated Press Feb. 13 that in his mind the issue is now closed.Blogger Melissa McEwan, in making the announcement on her personal Weblog, Shakespeare's Sister, said that she left the campaign because she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the level of attention focused on her and her family.
The blogger, who was hired as a consultant for the Edwards’ campaign Web effort did not address her previous comments on Christianity and Catholicism, but apologized to her fellow “progressive bloggers.”
I don't see anything progressive about being a religious bigot. If Edwards had discovered that one of his staff had written inflammatory racial material, there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that he would have fired such a person on the spot. It strikes me as strange that when it comes to Catholicism, or even religion in general, intolerance is not only acceptable--it's somehow viewed as being "tolerance."
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