SOSC 3992 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Butler Act, Academic Freedom, Jury Trial
7 Feb 2018
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Moral corruption of youth with the targets being teachers. Active thinking violates the 10 commandments: thinking is being depicted as immoral. Outlawed the teaching of evolution in tennessee public schools. A crime to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation as taught by the. Bible, and to teach instead that man was descended from a lower order of animals . If you spoke against christianity, you would go to jail. Not an attack on christianity, it is about the law and the appropriateness of this law. The purpose to promote citizenship based on christianity. Schools are a place for adaptation- butler recognized this hence the law. Public schools should promote citizenship based upon biblical standards of morality. Some people argued that it went against constitutional values. A number of critiques emerge against the law: converge around the idea of the unconstitutionality of the law, they were going to find a test case.
