 One hundred eleven protesters were arrested outside the cathedral.On January 30, 2007, John Edwards' presidential campaign hired Amanda Marcotte as blogmaster.The Catholic League, which is not an official organ of the Catholic Church, took offense at her obscenity- and profanity-laced invective against Catholic doctrine and satiric rants against Catholic leaders, including some of her earlier writings, where she described sexual activity of the Holy Spirit and claimed that the Church sought to "justify [its] misogyny with [...] ancient mythology."