Article snippet: Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative polemicist whose endorsement of pedophilia instigated outrage over the weekend, resigned on Tuesday from Breitbart News, the hard-right news and opinion website where he was an editor. “I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately,’’ Mr. Yiannopoulos said in an announcement. “This decision is mine alone,’’ he said. Mr. Yiannopoulos’s resignation followed days of tumult that intensified over the weekend after a conservative group called the Reagan Battalion posted a video that showed him condoning sexual relations between men and boys as young as 13 and jokingly dismissing the gravity of pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests. On Monday, the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference revoked its invitation for Mr. Yiannopoulos to speak this week, and the publisher Simon & Schuster also said it was canceling the publication of his book, “Dangerous.” Mr. Yiannopoulos attempted to explain his comments in posts on his Facebook page, saying he was a victim of his own “British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor,’’ but his explanations appeared to have little effect. In a statement on Tuesday, Breitbart News praised Mr. Yiannopoulos’s “bold voice,” adding — in words sure to inflame some liberals — that the provocateur “has sparked much-needed debate on important cultural topics confronting univers... Link to the full article to read more