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Here's the real moral of Amanda's story:
Don't continue updating a personal blog with your name attached if you intend on doing anything on a presidential payroll. Any unseemly writing from her pre-Edwards days could ultimately be waved off with the 'it was my hobby' defense, and rightly so. But to continue to provide such an obvious target to Edwards' enemies is worth resigning over.
I'm an atheist who has never voted for a Republican, but Amanda's Children of Men review was dumb. The quote.. well, here it is:
"The Christian version of the virgin birth is generally interpreted as super-patriarchal"
I mean, come on. Is there another version of the virgin birth that I'm not aware of? Can you really say that it's generally interpreted in any way other than the Christian way? It's one thing to be casually blasphemous. It's another to be casually blasphemous while on a presidential payroll -- and then you went ahead and were casually blasphemous and a little empty-headed while on a presidential payroll.
Oh well!
