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Church-state separationist James Dunn dead at 83

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(RNS) James M. Dunn, a religious liberty advocate who worked the corridors of Washington power for two decades to defend the separation of church and state, died on Saturday (July 4).

He was 83, and died of a heart attack at his Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home, said Cherilyn Crowe, spokeswoman for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.