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Origins of Dominion Theology in American Politics: Southern Agrarians and the Christian Reconstructionists (1930s-1960s) (Part 3)

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"The Scopes Trial, in 1925, of a high school biology teacher (John T. Scopes), who was accused of violating the Butler Act (a Tennessee law which forbade the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools because it was not in agreement with the bible), received international publicity and came to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trials (an allusion, it seems, to the popular but mistaken notion of Evolution that human biological ancestors were monkeys).

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