Rev. Barry Lynn in Nashville TONIGHT

Posted by Mary Mancini on November 14, 2006 under Uncategorized |

UPDATE: Rev. Lynn will be on Open Forum with Rev. TJ Graham on The Mighty 147, WVOL 1470 today at 2pm.

Reverend Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will be speaking and signing his book at Scarritt Bennett Center (Harambee Auditorium) TONIGHT, Tuesday, November 14 at 6:30 pm. Rev. Lynn is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, a long-time civil liberties activist, and author of Piety & Politics: The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom.

Lynn offers a call to arms to anyone who cares about America’s separation of church and state, saying that when the Religious Right attacks the constitutionally mandated separation, what they’re really attacking is the open marketplace of religion.

We had him as a guest on the show this morning (interview available shortly) and he did a fantastic job of explaining why the Religious Right, with their ideology-based social agenda - including the push to pass “marriage amendments” that ban same-sex unions and the teaching of creationism in public schools - has it wrong.

He knows, as should we all, that the separation between church and state has been an important ally to religion allowing for the growth and prosperity of hundreds of religions.

Is it possible that this is what the Religious Right doesn’t want? Are 1500 different religions in America just 1499 too many? Could it be them, and not the secular humanists, who are really waging a war on religion?

As Executive Directive of Americans United as well as in his book, Reverend Lynn continuously fights against a group with a real persecution complex - Americans who believe that they, as Christians, are the only ones who deserve to be called “Americans” and “Patriots.”

Go see him tomorrow night. He’s a interesting and dynamic speaker.