The campaign mailing from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) of Minnesota was said to be a nasty blast aimed directly at the Catholic Church. Perhaps it was an effort to capitalize on anger at the archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, who last month raised hackles by sending a DVD infomercial against gay marriage to hundreds of thousands of Catholic homes.
In the black-and-white image from the DFL campaign mailer -- at least the version that went zipping around the Internet on Tuesday -- a man in a clerical shirt and Roman collar was shown with a campaign button photo-shopped onto his shirt pocket that read, "Ignore the Poor."
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