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| formed in Texas by a group of militant Christian ministers. They felt that nothing they cared about ever got the attention it deserved. |
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Science vs. Religion Sigmund Freud |
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| He is the one who will begin to figure out the inner workings of the human mind. Psycho analysis are birthed under his design for the nature of man's nature and workings. Birthing of the notion that man CAN be understood, from his dreams to his childhood. |
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Science vs. Religion Carl Marx |
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| He is still taught throughout Europe and many of his ideas are considered accurate. |
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Science vs. Religion Albert Einstein |
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| Had to leave Germany to save his life. Father of advanced theoretical astro-physics. All of his most outstanding work was done in one year. |
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Science vs. Religion Charles Darwin |
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| Father of evolutionary biology. |
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The idea of eternal life. His concept was different because he thought the sould was what was really eternal, there was no need to keep the body. All the body is, is a compound thing that will fall apart at your death, but the soul is simple. |
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Separation of Church and State |
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Jefferson was the very first to give religious freedom to Virginia. He also went to Madison and said that ehy needed to include religious freedom in the Bill of Rights. (Note: Jefferson was not religious. He put a library in the center of the U of Virginia at a time when universities wre built around churches.) |
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Scopes Trial "The Monkey Trial" |
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One of the ten major events that changed America. No one won, it was a loss for both sides. Tennessee: 1925: Teaching evolution in the school system. One school teacher decided that he would teach evolution in his class room and he was arrested. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100. |
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William Jennings Bryant Scopes Trial |
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| He took it upon himself to fight evolution. He was trying to make it illegal to teach evolution in schools. |
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Made it a crime to teach anything that went against man's divine origin. |
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| He was a first year science teacher in Dayton TN. He was single, 24, and had no intentions of staying in Dayton. He had nothing to lose. |
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Clarence Darrow Scopes Trial |
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| The nation's most famous criminal lawyer. He had often campaigned against Bryant. He feared that religious led people to be judgemental, he just wanted people to be open-minded. He took the case, of defending Scopes, without pay. This was the only time he would ever do so. |
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| A cruel twist on Darwin's work that justified racism in the 1900s. |
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Video: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design |
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Dover, Pennsylvania. Certain people in the community wanted to teach "Intelligent Design" in the classroom. This is essentially merely creationism, which would violate the student's constitutional rights of the division of church and state. There was a trial with many expert witnesses. |
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Video: The Evolution Will beTelevised Gay rights |
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-Gay culture found its way into pop culture -Disco fueled a sexual revolution in gay men -Challenged military ban on homosexuals in the military |
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Stonewall Riots Gay Rights |
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Grenich Village. A raid on a gay bar caused a riot. Hundreds of people ran through the streets and continued to gather the next few days. Transformed VISIBILITY into POWER. |
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| 1987: a gay rights group formed. They used every resource available they had to educated the community on AIDS. They wre able to bring attention to the epidemic |
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"Culture War" Mission Gay Rights |
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| wantedd to erase all forms of homosexual aspets from the media. They thought it was corrupting America. |
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Maplethorpe War Gay Rights |
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Tax dollars used on projets that people find "morally" obcene to the public. Public money was used to put Maplethore's homoerotic photography on display. Was this right?
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Matthew Shepard Gay Rights |
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Murdered in Whyoming: he was severly beaten then tied to a fence. He died in 1998. This rose public awareness. He was murdered only because he was gay. |
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2003: took the law out of your bedroom. For a period of time there was a law that said sodomy was criminal. Intimate sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected in the constitution. |
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Abortion: Human Life Amendment |
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Congress passed partial birth abortion ban. Still being worked through the courts. |
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Gay Marriage: Federal Defense of Marriage Act |
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1996: Clinton signed it into law in 2004. Gay marriage was legalized in Mass. |
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| A word that changes shape over time. |
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| 1993: a free speech challenge to a hate crime law. |
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1994: the supreme court unanimously upheld a law which allowed an enhanced sentence for this reason. If the defendent intentioinally chooses a person b/c of their ancestry/hate crime they indeed would have a right to ask the court and recieve a sentence that is longer. |
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| 2003: pg 181: concerned burning crosses on peoples property. Approved: upheld the idea of intimidation. If a person is burning a cross it is very difficult to say it is not intended to intimidate another group of human beings. |
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Point of integration in Chicago. Blacks and whites were dancing together. |
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Anthony Comstock Pornography |
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| begins a life long effort to battle sexual expression. He decides that he will establish a committee: The New York Committee for the Expression of Vise. |
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1869: pg 131: important because we get the adoption of a British concept using black stones. Bad Tendency Doctrine: applied it in that decision to obscenity. The Hicklin Rule: the test of obscenity is that whether the tendency of the publication is intended to.. |
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| 1896: pg 135-36: a combination of Comstock: nothing should be allowed that will corrupt a child, viewing all works in the eyes of a pure, virginal child. Any isolated work in a book meant it could be damned. |
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US vs. One Book Called Ulysses |
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| 1933: came the first great setback. for the first time the supreme court has agreed to take up a case involving a mass murderer. |
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| 1937: there was hope that government control of all works could be done, but this reaffirmed the government's right to censor information and even movies could be put on trial. |
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| 1973: taking up a case that seems so insignificant. They wanted to address the question. |
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