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Article: Court kills law requiring teaching of creationism
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 20, 1987
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WASHINGTON - Religious fundamentalists lost a major battle in
the Supreme Court Friday when the justices struck down a Louisiana
law that required schools to balance courses on evolution with
teachings that buttress the Bible's account of how the world began.
The court ruled 7-2 that the law violated First Amendment
separation of church and state.
Justice William J. Brennan Jr. called it a "sham" for the
Louisiana Legislature to enact the law in the name of "academic
freedom." The purpose "was clearly to advance the religious viewpoint
that a supernatural being created humankind," he wrote for the court
majority.
Came under immediate attack
The 1981 law, which came under immediate ...