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Direct linkViteritti, Joseph P. – Princeton University Press, 2007
The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Freedom, Social Discrimination, Religion
Peer reviewedMena-Werth, Jose – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
In 1925, Williams Jennings Bryan, a former congressman from Nebraska and a former Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spent two agonizing weeks defending his religious faith that cost him his life a month after. Bryan was a prosecutor of high school teacher John Scopes, who had violated Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution.…
Descriptors: Evolution, Religion, Secondary School Teachers, Court Litigation
Jenkinson, Edward B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Reviews proceedings in "Mozert v. Hawkins County," in which the Sixth Circuit Court found that Holt reading series used by Hawkins County Public Schools caused the plaintiff students to "forfeit a free public education." Implications of this court decision are discussed. The judge narrowed the scope of the decision to the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Censorship, Court Litigation, Cultural Influences
