Amanda Marcotte has resigned as the blogger for the presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards. She blamed her decision on Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League who last week demanded that Edwards fire her for anti-Catholic statements at the blog Pandagon.

Marcotte announced her resignation there. Here is an excerpt:

[The campaign by Donohue] was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign. No matter what you think about the campaign, I signed on to be a supporter and a tireless employee for them, and if I canÂ’t do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesnÂ’t have anything better to do with his time than harass me, then I wonÂ’t do it. I resigned my position today and they accepted.

Unencumbered by her work for Edwards, she vowed to strike back. “The main good news,” Marcotte wrote, “is that I don’t have a conflict of interest issue anymore that was preventing me from defending myself against these baseless accusations. So it’s on.”

Bill DonohueÂ’s attack on Edwards failedÂ…

I wish she would have stuck it out. AmandaÂ’s viewpoints are pretty mainstream in my neck of the woods.

Sadly, the inhuman still rules the world of American politics. We will all be a lot better off when there is a more prominent place for someone like Amanda Marcotte in our public discourse.