Judge Alito's Fans and Foes Localize the Debate

From the New York Slimes:

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. may not be a household name outside the nation's capital, but as senators return home for the Thanksgiving recess, interest groups on both sides of the battle over his Supreme Court nomination are doing everything they can to bring it up in far-flung places.

On Sunday, parishioners at the predominantly black Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Detroit found attacks on Judge Alito's civil rights record tucked into their church bulletin, courtesy of People for the American Way. The group is distributing 15,000 fliers to African-American churches in 12 states.

My Comments:
Why are predominantly black churches allowed to get away with such blatantly political activity? And just look who's sponsoring this church bulletin initiative - People for the unAmerican Way.

You know darn well that People for the unAmerican Way would be up in arms and on the phone to the IRS if, say, the Catholic League, Fidelis, the Knights of Columbus, or the American Life League were placing pro-Alito propaganda in Catholic parish bulletins across the nation.