[1] After law school, Lynn continued to work with the United Church of Christ to gain amnesty for young men who chose desertion to protest the Vietnam War.
He was formerly a weekly commentator on church-state issues for UPI Radio, and served for two years as regular co-host of Buchanan and Company on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
[8] In 2006 Lynn argued that Focus on the Family’s efforts to bring up moral issues in the 2004 election represented “a blatant effort by [James] Dobson to build a partisan political machine based in churches...[Dobson] has made it abundantly clear that electing Republicans is an integral part of his agenda and he doesn’t mind risking the tax-exemption of churches in the process”.
[9][10] A separate organization unrelated to Lynn's Americans United later filed a formal complaint with the IRS over Dobson's political endorsements.
[11] Lynn did not support this complaint, and the IRS determined that since the endorsements were given by Dobson as a private individual, they did not violate federal tax law.
Prison Fellowship Ministries responded with claims that the program was effective in reducing recidivism, citing two studies — a 2002 one by the State of Texas[12] and one done in 2003 by the University of Pennsylvania.
[16] Lynn was very critical of the Stupak–Pitts Amendment, which was supported by the Catholic Church, and which aims to restrict the federal funding of abortion in health care legislation.