This morning Barry Lynn, a minister and lawyer and the high-profile executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, took the stage to talk about how separation is the cornerstone of our religious freedom.

He was incisive and humorous (as Charles Scriven later described) and his point was very clearly made.

In an interview with Club Adventist (h/t Religious Liberty), Mitch Tyner - recently retired Associate General Counsel for the General Conference and former Associate Director of PARL - takes on the argument that legalizing same-gender marriage would disenfranchise pastors and local churches.