Published 2015 by Prometheus Books

God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom of Conscience. Copyright © 2015 by Reverend Barry W. Lynn. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Lyrics from “The Christians and the Pagans,” © Dar Williams (1996), reprinted with permission.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Lynn, Barry W.

God and government : twenty-five years of fighting for equality, secularism, and freedom of conscience / by Barry W. Lynn.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-63388-024-5 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-63388-025-2 (ebook)

1. Church and state—United States. 2. Christianity and politics—United States. 3. Religious right—United States. 4. Freedom of religion—United States. 5. Religious pluralism—United States. 6. Religious tolerance—United States. I. Title.

BR516.L96 2015
322’.10973—dc23

2015004942

Printed in the United States of America