Barry Lynn From Americans United for Separation of Church and State to speak e

Hear Witty, Delightful
Barry Lynn

Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Speaking on

Piety and Politics:
Why the Extreme Religious Right Is Still Dangerous

on Sunday, September 14, 2008, 7:30 p.m. at the
Greece Baptist Church
1230 Long Pond Road,
(a little north of Ridge Road West, Route 104)
Greece, N.Y.

This event is FREE and open to the public. We invite and encourage everyone to attend.

Presented by

Rochester Chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State

MCPEARL, Monroe Citizens for Public Education and Religious Liberty

Co-sponsored by
Genesee Valley Chapter/N.Y. Civil Liberties Union,
Greater Rochester Section/National Council of Jewish Women,
and The Interfaith Alliance of Rochester

Locally, Americans United supports a suit against the Greece Town board’s practice of sectarian prayer to open board meetings. Americans United and other advocates of civil liberties see the practice as a violation of church-state separation.

Lynn will touch on the Greece suit and will also show how activities of the extreme Religious Right endanger fundamental constitutional rights across the nation. Lynn has written two recent books, Piety and Politics and First Freedom First. Both books discuss the way religious extremists try to erode the wall of separation between church and state.

Barry Lynn is Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He served from 1984 to 1991 as legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. Mr. Lynn also served in the national offices of the United Church of Christ.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College (PA), his law degree from Georgetown University, and a theology degree from Boston University. Mr. Lynn is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He has appeared frequently on television and radio broadcasts — including the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, Nightline, NBC’s Today Show, CNN’s Crossfire, Meet the Press, and Larry King Live — to discuss church-state issues.

For further information, contact Robert H. Goldstein, Rochester Americans United, 585-334-4557, gstn@mail.rochester.edu or Martha Laties, MCPEARL, 585-586-5036, mlaties@rochester.rr.com, www.mcpearl.org [1].