Here's some information about Minnesota. Each night, about 9,000 individuals in the state are homeless. Close to 500,000 experience poverty in the state, according to 2008 Census figures. Twenty-five percent of women over the age of 16 experience poverty. And poverty rates among African Americans are the third highest in the country in Minnesota.

Yet a coalition of Minnesota Catholic bishops are urging voters to care more about gay marriage, and are planning to engage in the upcoming November elections under the mantra that same-sex marriage is the number one issue facing Minnesotans.

The stepped up campaign includes a coordinated effort by bishops throughout Minnesota to send DVDs to every Catholic family in the state, demonizing same-sex marriage. Letters will also go out to each household, encouraging Minnesotans to vote against the rights of same-sex couples.

Is this really what the Minnesota Catholic Church wants to prioritize? Don't Minnesotans deserve better?

Send a message to the Catholic leadership in Minnesota that the Church should be fighting poverty, fighting homelessness, and fighting hunger ... and not fighting love.