[celmak]

I’m saying the constant refrain of “Well, they started it!” rings hollow.

Fine, I'm not saying either "we started it" or "they started it;" I'm saying states have the rights in teaching children and the SCOTUS had no right to obstruct teaching in the way they did. Though I do disagree with the Butler act; states still have rights, agreed?

[tacticalogic]

Fine, I'm not saying either "we started it" or "they started it;" I'm saying states have the rights in teaching children and the SCOTUS had no right to obstruct teaching in the way they did. Though I do disagree with the Butler act; states still have rights, agreed?

States do have rights. In the case of the Butler Act, the question is whether specifying that only the literal account of Creation according to the Book of Genesis can be taught amounts to an official "establishment of religion", and whether that applies to the States under the incorportation clause of the 14th Amendment.