"Taking a page from President Obama’s political playbook, Michele Bachmann has..."

"... formally left a church in Minnesota accused of holding anti-Catholic views."

... The matter has been tailing Bachmann for much of her political career. She was asked about the church’s statement in 2006, when she was running for Congress.

“It's abhorrent, it's religious bigotry,” Bachmann said then. “I love Catholics, I'm a Christian, and my church does not believe that the pope is the antichrist, that's absolutely false.”