The Daily Background

One of my favorite bloggers and one of the blogosphere’s leading female voices, Melissa McEwan (known to most in the blogosphere as Shakespeare’s Sister) recently joined the John Edwards campaign as a Netroots outreach coordinator. Definately cool stuff and I’m sure she’s going to do really great work (and groundbreaking work- this election is going to be like no other technology-wise) for the Edwards team.

Everybody on this side of Ye Olde Blogosphere wishes her the best, and I say that as though she’s leaving but she’s not going anywhere. Anyways the reason why I bring this up is that William ‘Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity‘ Donahue, the President of the Catholic League seems to have noticed Shakes’ new employment. Known for his fringe rhetoric, he’s now accusing Shakes of being a “vulgar” “anti-Catholic” “trash talking” “bigot.”

Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact Shakes is probably one of the strongest pro-equality bloggers on the internet when it comes to matters of religious freedom, and tolerance of others. She has highlighted dozens of issues relating to racial, religious, as well as GBLT discrimination during her blogging career. At the core of Donahue’s opposition to Shakes seems to be her staunch support of equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans, which Donahue evidently considers anti-Catholic bigotry (utterly ridiculous). The vulgar accusation is totally on the mark though: she’s not one to mince words or trot around what she really thinks.

Anyways, I just wanted to address this issue real quick, cause when you see somebody making really stupid, hypocritical accusations and bashing a colleague you’re a fan of, you can’t help but say something. If Donahue had any credibility and if the Edwards people were looking like they regretted their hire, I’d be saying something about being in solidarity with Shakes, but as it is, this is just one of those incidents I think we can laugh off (despite the fact that the NYT has also picked up the story).

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