Pat Robertson Uses 700 Club To Attack "Americans United"

ABP News reports that controversial Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson yesterday used his 700 Club television show to launch an attack on Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United For Separation of Church and State. Robertson said, "Barry Lynn is so extreme, he has said that if a church is burning down, the city shouldn’t bring the fire department and trucks to spray water on the church because that violates separation of church and state." AU officials deny that this is Lynn's position. Robertson went on to claim that the ACLU had taken over Americans United, and described the ACLU in these terms: "The goal of the ACLU is to strip all religion from the public square. Why? Because the goal of the Communist Party was to weaken America, and they thought that they could weaken America if they took faith out of our public life. That's where it all came from, ladies and gentlemen." In a release by Americans United in response to the attack said "Robertson is not just factually wrong, but increasingly shrill and paranoid."