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For Immediate Release: March 16, 2007
UMW TO HOST LECTURE ON “PIETY AND POLITICS,” APRIL 10
Fredericksburg, Va. – The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, will present a lecture about his newly released book Piety and Politics: The Right Wing Assault on Religious Freedom on Tuesday, April 10, at 4 p.m. The lecture, which is open to the public without charge, will take place in the Red Room of the Woodard Campus Center at the University of Mary Washington.
Since 1992, Lynn has served as executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to the preservation of the Constitution’s religious liberty provisions.
Before accepting the post at Americans United, Lynn held a variety of positions related to religious liberty. From 1984 to 1991, he was legislative counsel for the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he frequently worked on church-state issues. From 1974 to 1980, Lynn served in a variety of positions with the national offices of the United Church of Christ, including a two-year stint as legislative counsel for the Church’s Office of Church in Society in Washington, D.C.
Lynn has appeared on such television and radio broadcasts as PBS’s NewsHour, NBC’s Today Show, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and CBS’s 60 Minutes. Lynn has served two years as a regular co-host of Pat Buchanan and Company with Col. Oliver North.
In 1995, Lynn was the co-author of The Right to Religious Liberty: The Basic ACLU Guide to Religious Rights. He has had opinion pieces published in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.
A long-time activist, lawyer and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Rev. Lynn received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, as well as his theology degree from Boston University School of Theology.
For more information about the lecture, contact the University of Mary Washington Department of Political Science at (540) 654-1146.
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News release prepared by: Andrea Christie