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].

<p>Hear Witty, Delightful<br /> Barry Lynn</p> <p>Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State</p> <p>Speaking on</p> <p>Piety and Politics:<br /> Why the Extreme Religious Right Is Still Dangerous</p> <p>on Sunday, September 14, 2008, 7:30 p.m. at the<br /> Greece Baptist Church<br /> 1230 Long Pond Road,<br /> (a little north of Ridge Road West, Route 104)<br /> Greece, N.Y.</p> <p>This event is FREE and open to the public. We invite and encourage everyone to attend.</p> <p>Presented by</p> <p>Rochester Chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State</p> <p>MCPEARL, Monroe Citizens for Public Education and Religious Liberty</p> <p>Co-sponsored by<br /> Genesee Valley Chapter/N.Y. Civil Liberties Union,<br /> Greater Rochester Section/National Council of Jewish Women,<br /> and The Interfaith Alliance of Rochester</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>For further information, contact Robert H. Goldstein, Rochester Americans United, 585-334-4557, <a href="mailto:gstn@mail.rochester.edu">gstn@mail.rochester.edu</a> or Martha Laties, MCPEARL, 585-586-5036, <a href="mailto:mlaties@rochester.rr.com">mlaties@rochester.rr.com</a>, <a href="http://www.mcpearl.org">www.mcpearl.org</a> [1].</p>