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One Hundred Years – Religion and the Public Schools
A century ago, the Scopes Trial and Pierce v. Society of Sisters set the course for America’s schools—one ushering in Darwinian evolution, the other defending parental rights. The clash between faith and government control over our children’s education continues to this day.
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Tagged American Civil Liberties Union, Arthur Garfield Hays, Center of the Storm, Charles Darwin, Chattanooga Daily Times, Clarence Darrow, Darwinism, Horace Mann, James C. McReynolds, materialism, naturalism, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, The Butler Act, The Compulsory Attendance Act of 1922, The Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson
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