The Scopes Monkey Trial. A quick perusal of Wiki:
"Scopes Trial"... was an American legal case that tested the Butler Act, which made it unlawful, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible...
The Butler Act? ...the author of the law, a Tennessee farmer named John Washington Butler, specifically intended that it would prohibit the teaching of evolution...After reading copies of William Jennings Bryan's lecture "Is the Bible True?" as well as Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, Butler decided evolution was dangerous.
Just in case you've forgotton about Bryan:
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 - July 26, 1925) was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908...(in a separate section) The trial pitted two of the pre-eminent legal minds of the time against one another; three-time presidential candidate, Congressman and former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan headed up the prosecution....
A law restricting free speech in public schools, sponsored by and named after a DEMOCRAT (http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=B119), the alleged violation of which is prosecuted by a DEMOCRAT, and you refer to the "Scopes Monkey Trial" wing of the Republican Party??? The more fitting analogy here is that Schauer has done about as much for business in the STate of Michigan as the Democrats did for teaching evolution in Tennessee.
Did you read DOE's new rules for lightbulbs? Three hundred and seventy-five pages of rules regarding what kind of lightbulbs manufacturers can make and consumers can buy. Read the bottom of page 13: Lifetime savings for flourescent bulbs = $7.50. Now read the top of page 14 and see just how much money the lightbulb manufacturers will lose. WE, the taxpayers have funded millions of dollars in research and salaries and support staff so we can each save $7.50 per light bulb over 20 years. Now there is some "change" you can believe in.
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