You said Christians "LOBBIED THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY" to file suit. I pointed
out this was false.
You now ask: <<Who told the state to file suit?
No one TOLD the state to do anything. The ACLU swore out the original
complaint, and the state agreed to go forward.
<<The filing of a suit gets the ball rolling. Are you saying that the ACLU
filed the suit charging Scopes with teaching evolution and they then turned
around and defended him?
Exaclty! Now you've got it right. It was George Rappleyea himself, in concert
with the ACLU, who filed the complaint. He swore out the warrant for Scopes's
arrest, and a deputy walked along with him to the drugstore and had Scopes
arrested. Sorry, but that's history. It was the ACLU's lawsuit from the start.
How do the actual facts strike you, Glenn?
<<You are trying your switch and bait tactic here. Accuse me of doing
something wrong then say that my main point was injected later and of course
wrongly.>>
No, you just want to keep the focus on a non-issue, because the ACLU drove the
Scopes trial. Well, if you want to focus on your contention that Christians
lobbied for the LAW to be passed, we can do that, too, because you're even
wrong about that. The law was the brainchild of one John Washington Butler, a
prosperous farmer who became a state rep. On the morning he turned 49 years
old he was thinking what to do on his birthday and decided to write an
anti-evolution law. He wrote it right there at the breakfast table and later
had a stenographer at the capitol type it up, and that's how the law was
worded, just like he wrote it that morning.
So the law came not from lobbying by Christians, but from an ambitious
politician on a morning whim.
The Tennessee house of reps passed the bill, thinking the senate would kill
it. The senate passed it thinking the governor would veto it. But the governor
signed it, saying it would never be enforced!
Well, George Rappleyea was a young man who hated Fundamentalists. When he
heard of the law, "I made up my mind I'd show them up to the world." That's
when Rappleyea hooked up with the ACLU. That's when the ACLU itself, through
it's deputy Rappleyea, had Scopes arrested. Not the Christians, Glenn.
In sum, not one of your main allegations in the "incredible misrepresentation"
message is true. You alleged:
1. Christians lobbied for the law.
2. Christians lobbied the DA to "sue" Scopes.
Both contentions are false. The misrepresentations of history came from you.
Can you see that now?
Jim