As far as my civics course taught me, long ago in Jr. High, trials where the
government prosecutes do not take place unless a law is broken. There are no
laws in our country unless a legislature passes them. Since legistatures
respond to public pressure, there could have been no trial unless the citizens
of Tennessee (who were certainly not Bhuddists or evolutionists) had not
lobbied to keep this nasty topic out of their schools.
Scripture would support me here.
Romans 4:15 (NIV) And where there is no law there is no
transgression.
Thus it was the Christians who lobbied for the law, who were the first cause
of the Trial. True, if no one had admitted to having broken the law, there
could not have been a trial.
>
><<It was the Christians
>who lobbied the district attorney to sue Scopes for teaching evolution after
>
>he stated that he had.>>
>
>Wrong again. Rappelyea and the ACLU engineered the publicity, and Scopes
>VOLUNTARILY allowed himself to be arrested. Scopes, of course, WON on appeal
>,
If there had been no law they could not have done this. It would have been
impossible.
><<In other words, if Christians had been a little more tolerant, the whole
>thing might not have blown up in their face.>>
>
>Again wrong. It was the ever "tolerant" Mr.Mencken who handled the world wide
>publicity. No one would even have heard of Dayton if it hadn't been for him.
>His wonderfully fair portrayal of the "anthropoid rabble"was swallowed whole,
>and is a caricature trotted out to this day whenever the issue arises.
There would have been no publicity without a trial and no trial without a law.
Your logic is suspect.
glenn
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