Only liberal Dems can politicize in Churches...

[Sassy]

...without losing tax exempt status. Why is that?

Jesse Jackson can raise money in a church (I wonder if J.C. Watts or Alan Keyes could), Mary Landrieu probably won the U.S. Senate race in Louisiana by speaking at churches in Louisiana, and I believe I heard Mario Cuomo say on Fred Dicker's radio show that he was going to speak at a church on behalf of his son (when he was running in the gubernatorial race).

Read "Letter to IRS Regarding alleged church political activity in Louisiana" and "Activist Files IRS complaint over alleged church politicking" at CNSNews.com. Here's some of it:
A conservative political activist has filed an official complaint with the Internal Revenue Service over allegations that churches in Louisiana aided Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in her recent re-election effort against Republican candidate Suzanne Haik Terrell.

Rick Sellers sent a letter to Steven Miller, director of Exempt Organizations of the IRS, claiming that over 300 churches in the state participated in partisan political activity.

"I would like to bring to your attention IRS illegal activity in Louisiana during the recent U.S. Senate runoff by more than 300 churches in support of Senator Mary Landrieu's campaign," he wrote.

Sellers attached three newspaper articles - from the Times-Picayune and the Washington Post - that reported on speeches before churches by Landrieu, as well as quotes from Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) detailing how some campaign workers use church vans for transporting voters.