God and Government
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God and Government

Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom Of Conscience

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eBook - ePub

God and Government

Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom Of Conscience

About this book

A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil rights lawyer, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he offers a unique perspective and a wealth of experience on church-state controversies. In this lively book, he has compiled his writings from various sources to explore in depth the many ways religious extremists have attempted to erode individual liberties. The topics range from publicly-promoted prayer to efforts to undermine public education and replace it with taxpayer-subsidized vouchers for religious schools, interfering with end-of-life and reproductive rights, censorship, and belligerence directed against nonbelievers and minorities. Lynn concludes that the ultimate goal of these extremist forces-consisting mainly of the Protestant Religious Right and the Roman Catholic hierarchy-is the creation of a corporate theocracy, a decidedly undemocratic system of government in which nonconservative Christians, along with humanist, feminists, and the LGBTQ community, are relegated to second-class status in America.

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Information

Publisher
Prometheus
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781633880252
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Public Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: How I Got Into Fighting the Religious Right
  6. Chapter 1: Schools Are Still a Battlefield, But We Are Winning
  7. Chapter 2: The Evolving Debateā€¦on Evolution
  8. Chapter 3: If We Can't Change Public School Curricula, Let's Just Destroy Public Schools
  9. Chapter 4: The Religious Right: The More Things Change, the More the Weirdness Continues
  10. Chapter 5: Religious Right Tactics: From Initiatives to License Plates to Church Rehab to Taking Over the Military and the Courtsā€¦(and to Sending People to Death Row, for Good Measure)
  11. Chapter 6: When Government Officials Pray, Get Out the TV Cameras; When They Put Up the Ten Commandments, Don't Expect Them to Follow Them
  12. Chapter 7: Does the Religious Right Hate Everybody? Answer: Yes
  13. Chapter 8: The Big Wall-Bangers (aka the Biggest Threats to Church-State Separation)ā€”Faith-Based Funding and Religiously Motivated Refusals
  14. Chapter 9: Religion in Politics
  15. Chapter 10: Why Does Anybody Spend Their Adult Life Doing This?
  16. Concluding Thoughts: The Future Looks Brighter
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. About the Author