There is a controversy surrounding some aides just hired into the John Edwards campaign. It seems they have a history of profane anti-Catholicism. Not surprisingly Bill Donohue of the Catholic League has his knickers in a knot. Maybe he's got a point this time; I just got the following from the Family Research Council:
Presidential hopeful and former senator John Edwards has given new meaning to faith outreach with his latest hires. The newest members of the Edwards team have a long--and unfortunately vulgar--anti-Catholic history. As recent as last December, Amanda Marcotte, Edwards' new Blogmaster, and Melissa McEwan, the Netroots Coordinator, posted scathing personal blogs, littered with profanity and barbs about the Pope too obscene to reprint. Here are some of the tamer examples: To social conservatives, who McEwan calls the "wingnut Christofascist base," she writes, "What don't you lousy [expletive] understand about keeping your noses out of our britches, our bed and our families?" Marcotte writes, "The Pope's gotta tell women who give birth to stillborns that their babies are cast into Satan's maw. . . . 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." The pages and pages of filthy name-calling include comparisons to Christ that would make even the most hardened secularist blush. This should alarm a man running for President, particularly one who told NBC's Tim Russert last Sunday that he "grew up in a Southern Baptist church [and] was baptized in a Southern Baptist church," and who claims that religion is "just part of who [he is]." At least two Catholic groups, Fidelis and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, have called on Edwards to fire the bigoted bloggers. Action by the Edwards campaign may be imminent.
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