Divine Impulses

Divine Impulses: Barry Lynn

Barry Lynn does not just want to protect the state from religion. He wants to protect religion from the state.

"Religion flourishes best when governments just leave it alone," Lynn said to On Faith's Sally Quinn in the Divine Impulses interview.

»Watch the Lynn, a lawyer, United Church of Christ minister and executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State talk to Sally Quinn about the trouble with the presidential candidate's overuse of religion and why religious people should be skeptical of faith-based politics.

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Comments (5)

Anonymous:

Thanks Ben. People start things they can't finish and are finished and can't figure out why. It was figured out long ago and it never ends. People can do what they want. It's a free country and they hate that too.

Ben Franklin:

The "wall of separation of church and state" was a note made by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams. It is nowhere in the Constitution. Instead, what we have is that "No official church sponsored by the Gov't". But is also says "no persecution of any church". So, the gov't cannot support any official church or religion, but it also cannot prevent the right of Christians (or anybody else) from practicing their brand of religion.
How that translates into religious tolerance of every religion EXCEPT Christianity I can't see. Thank God there are still real Americans who understand the Constitution and will stand up for their rights, even if there are some folks who don't like that, and will even try to shoot that right down as someone trying to
"force their religion" on others. Get real!

deflag:

Justice for money, we all know it's the American Way. The other way is to shoot it out. Sometimes that works better, depending on who gets shot of course.

DOUGLAS FIELD:

THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE JUST MIGHT NEED AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS SUPPORT TO CHANGE ??


***SENATOR OBAMA,PLEASE LET AMERICA KNOW YOUR FEELINGS ON THIS US JUDICIAL INJUSTICE ???

LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS ALSO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS POSSIBLE FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA'S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????

**WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL HORROR CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????

*** WHEN GOD’S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***
THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????

**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.

****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****
The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.

This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.

This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!

Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!

For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.

It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.

This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!

***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!

A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE
MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.
** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !

lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com (424-247-2013)

deflag:

WE, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

He doesn't need to be concerned with Pennsylvania. We don't need guidance from Barry Lynn. They humbly invoked His guidance long before Barry Lynn decided action needed to be taken to protect religion.

"We are going to win this lawsuit because no city or county government has won a case like this in recent memory," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "There is no law supporting keeping this plaque on the building. None." March 21, 2001 http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010321plaque6.asp

"In a decision that could have major implications for a similar case in Allegheny County, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a suburban Philadelphia county can keep a Ten Commandments plaque on the facade of its courthouse."

"Obviously, it's not good news for our side," said Joe Conn, the spokesman. "We'll have to read this ruling very closely and see what the court's reasoning was." Friday, June 27, 2003
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030627plaquereg4p4.asp

They want to know the reasoning. It's a long story of liberty and there is a will. There is a way and it never changes. We are going to win because love conquers all. We already won and we'll win again. It's good news.
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