COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Creation Science, Comstock Laws, Anthony Comstock
5 Apr 2017
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2: dissenting views concerning private morality, premarital sex, forbidden sex acts, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, group sex, darwinism or creationism, religious movements of the 1800s forbidding the teaching of darwinism. Scopes v state, 1927 (aka the monkey trial ) criminal prosecution of public school teacher for teaching evolution. Epperson v arkansas, 1968 supreme court struck down arkansas" statutory prohibition against teaching evolution: darwinism or scientific creationism, daniel v. waters 1975. In 1857 parliament officially recognized the common-law crime of obscene libel by passing the obscene publications act (aka lord campbell"s act after the bill"s author and leading proponent, lord chief justice john campbell: hicklin rule: In 1868 regina v hicklin created the hicklin rule. In essence, both acts can be used individually or together to override the first. Amendment: comstock act of 1873, anthony comstock, member of the ymca"s society for the suppression of vice, lobbied congress to pass a law to make it illegal to trade in obscene materials.
