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Catholic Votes is a project of Fidelis. Fidelis describes itself as "a group of Catholic-based political, legal, research and educational organizations whose collective mission it is to formulate, promote, and defend public policies that uphold religious freedom, human life from conception to natural death, and the traditional institutions of marriage and family."

Today - they unveiled a television ad they'll be running on BET - as a way for Catholics across the country to ally with conservative black religious groups to fight abortion rights in America.

This ad - the first of several - is titled "Life: Imagine The Potential" - which shows fetal ultrasound with music and text - then revealing that the baby you are watching in the womb is none other than President Obama. (obviously this is not true, but... nonetheless)

Here is the video:

Looking to create allies with the black conservatives like the catholics did in california around gay marriage issues - this is a startlingly inappropriate ad. I guess I shouldn't be all riled up - because since when did appropriateness and conservative religious activists belong in the same sentence.

But in chatting with

notdefined about this video - this is the kind of outright lying and propaganda that the anti-gay marriage campaigns across the country got away with during the last election. How do we combat this kind of stuff? should we? How do we get a national organization (HRC, Lambda Legal, etc) to respond with this kind of heavy hitting unavoidable kind of media placement? How do we slap our national organizations upside the head and say "Time to get to work representing us, Missy!" (MAJOR BITCH SLAP INSERTED HERE)