Following the first day of a “public relations blitz” on the part of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, one of the chief campaign bloggers for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Monday evening. The resignation of Amanda Marcotte came on the same day that the Catholic League publicized a new post she made regarding the Virgin Birth of Jesus.

Marcotte posted on her personal blog that the criticism "was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign." Marcotte said she resigned from her position Monday, and that her resignation was accepted by the campaign.

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If like most bloggers you have been following the John Edwards debate regarding some of his staff and claims that they are anti-Catholic in their bloggings and you are still riding the fence with respect to "freedom of speech," the following post may change you mind ....

Following is an uncensored selection of the anti-Christian writings of John Edwards’s staffers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan as compiled by the Catholic League. The remarks contained at this link are graphic, vulgar and obscene. Spero News posts the following material as we believe it is important to the arguments being presented by both sides.

As has been reported, both bloggers are now employed by the John Edwards campaign. Click on the dates to link to the original blog pieces (The links are live at Spero News -- link below).

Amanda Marcotte:

June 14, 2006:

Q: What is Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?

A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.

"Protestant anti-choice assholes are on the horizon."

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