The fight for your Sunday morning parish parking lot

This Sunday, the last one before next Tuesday's election, folks will likely be placing flyers on cars parked in Catholic parish parking lots around the country.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is trying to stop that phenomenon. They want to keep people in the mindset they already have, and they don't want their minds changed last minute.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good has been roundly criticized by many Catholic bishops, such as Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Martino. They areinvolved with the Democratic party and have been charged with taking money from prominent pro-abortion activists.

Anyway, here is what they are telling their members to do this weekend (underlining mine):

"We are asking our supporters to join us this Sunday to keep our parishes from becoming partisan battlegrounds in this election. Here's what you can do to help:

• Inform your Pastor today of your concern that outside groups may try to flyer cars during Mass on Sunday and encourage him to instruct the ushers to monitor the church parking lot during the worship service.
• Volunteer to monitor your own church parking lot this Sunday, and ask others to join you in monitoring their church.
• If you do encounter people in the parking lot, respectfully ask them to leave and remove their literature, and inform the ushers immediately.
• Refrain from distributing, on any Church property, any election materials except those approved by the USCCB (Faithful Citizenship), your local bishop or State Catholic Conference. Do not distribute any partisan campaign literature or voter guides (even non-partisan guides).
• Do what you can this weekend to help safeguard our Sunday Mass as a sacred time that should never be used for political gain."

Did you get all that? Monitoring the lot, enlisting ushers, removing flyers?

What do you think about this? Do you take the side of Catholics in Alliance or do you think it's fair for other groups to try to get their message out?

What this email tells me is that Catholics in Alliance is primarily trying to neutralize other members of the Church who wish to provide information to their brothers and sisters in Christ on important issues. But I do realize there are other dynamics involved here, which is why I'd like to have your input as well.

So please discuss.

update: LifeNews notes that Catholics United is encouraging the same tactics:

CU spokesman James Salt emailed his pro-Obama team Thursday night and called the literature drops a "final act of desperation" by the "religious far right" and falsely claimed that the distribution of pro-life information "defies" the Catholic bishops -- who have said the pro-life issue trumps all others in the election.

"The goal of this activity is to convince Catholics that it's immoral to vote for candidates who don't subscribe to the right's narrow agenda," Salt claims.

Salt says Catholics United is heading up the campaign to "put the brakes" on the literature drops.

CNA also weighs in.