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Here's the thing: Bill Donoghue is a bully and a right wing smear campaigner. Still, that doesn't make Marcotte and McEwan's blog postings any less ill informed, insulting and, in that way, bigotted and anti-Catholic. The two bloggers have the right to say what they want, but clearly what they want is to give offense. Bill Donoghue was not the only one who was offended. I'm to the left of most people I know, because of Catholicism not in spite of it. Marcotte and McEwan's ignorance will not stop me from voting for John Edwards, the candidate who best reflects the Catholicsm of my upbringing (with it's focus on the poor and voiceless). Still, Marcotte's explanation of why she quit was self-serving. She and Donoghue are two sides of the same ignorant coin. Intelligent people should ignore them both.
