A Democrat Party supporting independent non profit group has sent out perhaps THE most anti-Catholic political advertisement I’ve ever seen. Sometimes there’s a little subtlety to anti-Catholic political rhetoric but not this time. This is in your face anti-Catholicism. A postcard was sent out to voters with a photo shopped picture of a Catholic priest wearing a campaign button saying: “Ignore the Poor.”
As you can see below the pic takes up nearly the entire length of the postcard. It’s anti-Catholicism is not one point of many. It’s the point.
October 26, 2010 at 5:08 am
Ignore the Demo's!
October 26, 2010 at 6:31 am
I liked the comment that "there is no merit in being generous with other people's money." Catholic Democrat is right up there with Jumbo Shrimp, in my book.
October 26, 2010 at 9:00 am
FYI: The Minnesota DFL isn't an independent group that supports the Dems, it IS the Democratic Party in Minnesota. In 1944 the Minnesota Democratic Party & the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party merged to form the DFL. This post card was sent out by their state central committee making this officially sponsored by the party.
October 26, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Stand by folks. There'll be more of this and much worse in coming years.
October 26, 2010 at 2:00 pm
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October 26, 2010 at 5:11 pm
This is especially disturbing when 80% of our Catholic Bishops voted Democrat in the last presidential elections.
Great way to show support for your electorate. Outside of the U.S. government, the Catholic Church is the largest provider to the poor in this country. Hypocrites! And ignoramuses! Yuck!
October 26, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Everyone wants to strengthen the weak, lift the wage earner,
help the poor, establish sound security, keep out of trouble
and help man permanently. But the way the Democrats do this doesn’t
work because they’re not really after helping others. They use the
poor to help themselves with the monies from taxes. They use the poor
to stay in power so that they can continue stealing. They’re cheating
right now to keep their positions. People who engage in immoral and
unethical behavior cannot be moral or ethical themselves. Obama even
uses God’s name to justify the slaughter of the unborn. Cfr. video at
http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2010/10/video-you-cannot-do-good-by-doing-evil.html
October 26, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Anti-Catholic? No.
The piece is directed against a Protestant minister who is also the Republican candidate for a state senate seat, the Rev. Dan Hall. Had you included the rest of the flyer this would have been clear.
I'm not sure this was the best piece but I am also sure that the Catholic Church does not own the clerical collar. It is worn by the majority of Protestant and Orthodox clergy in Minnesota.
Why do you choose not to show the whole mailer? It takes issue with Rev. Hall for not supporting a Minnesota Health Care bill endorsed by the Catholic Church.
Rev. Hall makes a big deal that he is a clergyman in his campaign to be a Republican state senator. The DFL respond that he seems to be a clergyman that does not care for the poor the way other clergy including the Catholic Church calls for.
October 26, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I think this might be one of the two times a day the stopped clock is right.
October 26, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Here is Hall's page.
These guys contacted Hall, who says he's never worn a Roman collar.
Dude was the chaplain for the senate, but he's a lay-person and goes to a non-denom church.
Wasn't Minnesota the same place where that blanker, Meyers (University of Minnesota, Morris) solicited for consecrated Hosts, desecrated at least one and put it all on his college's web page?
October 26, 2010 at 11:18 pm
From Foxfire's link, here is DFL's other ad: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Preacher-Politician.jpg, showing a Catholic church sanctuary with election banners hanging from the ceiling. So they are basically appropriating Catholic imagery and applying it to Hall even though it is a massive disconnect. I'd say they are either collosally ignorant, making them absurd to listen to, or they know and don't care, which makes them sleazeballs.
October 27, 2010 at 1:28 am
I found that image to be a very graphic illustration of the slogan: "Faith without works is dead." Whose slogan is that, anyway?
October 27, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Wait. So, I get the fact that the Roman collar is used by all faiths. So, apparently the ad is saying "ministers of all faiths ignore the poor" or "Catholic priests ignore the poor". So, there are no Catholics/Christians in Minnesota to be offended by this right? I mean, who really sends out political ads that are meant to alienate entire swaths of the voting population? Answer: People who want the offended parties to vote the other way. Could it be that there is a mole in the campaign ad department who did this on purpose?