Barry W. Lynn Quotes

United States, Director
1948

Barry W. Lynn (born 1948) was the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State from 1992 to November 2017. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a prominent leader of the religious left in the United States. He is known to be a strong advocate of separation of church and state.

On December 20, 2005, Judge John E. Jones III, appointed by President George W. Bush, with the strong endorsement of Pennsylvania's staunch conservative senator Rick Santorum, ruled for our plaintiffs in a superbly written 139-page opinion that shocked many observers.

Barry W. Lynn
The government is, in fact, urging you to pray. That's simply not government's job.

Barry W. Lynn
- Job
- Government
- Pray

A bedrock principle of religious freedom is that freedom is achieved only if it is achieved for all.

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- Freedom
- Achieved
It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

Barry W. Lynn
- Science
- Way
- Evolution
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in religious institutions almost every day of his adult life but never once told a congregation or gathering there for whom to vote.

Barry W. Lynn
Government is supposed to be neutral on religion. It has no business telling people how, when, or where to pray—or even if they ought to pray. Government does lots of things well, but meddling in our private religious lives is not among them.

Barry W. Lynn
- Government
- Religion
- Pray