Religio-Moral Heresy Flashcards
4 main categories
- Blasphemy
- Scientific messages
- Immoral ideas
- Sexual obscenity.
Burstyn v. Wilson (1952)
Rosselini film “The Miracle”
Blasphemy is not exempted from the First Amendment.
Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952)[2] (also referred to as the “Miracle Decision”), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which largely marked the decline of motion picture censorship in the United States.[1] It determined that provisions of the New York Education Law which allowed a censor to forbid the commercial showing of a motion picture film it deemed to be “sacrilegious” was a “restraint on freedom of speech” and thereby a violation of the First Amendment.
Scientific Messages
- The debate between scientific and creationism.
- sex ed
- contraception
- global warming (bush administration attempted to tell scientists what they could publish)
Heresy (false doctrine)
Teaching “incorrect” religious beliefs.
Scopes Monkey Trail
- One of the first media trials.
- The dispute between creationism and evolution.
- Law was passed that forbid schools from teaching evolution in school.
- ACLU had scopes challenge the law so they could have a case and take it to the supreme court.
- Clarence Darrow was openly critical of religion nd wanted to lose the case so it could go to the supreme court.
- Instead of letting this happen they let scopes go on a technicality so they couldn’t appeal to a higher court.
Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
Supreme court ruled against the law and said that the teaching of evolution is not only allowed but it must be there because it is scientific theory.
Creationist strategy
since 1968 creationists claimed that you shouldn’t be able to teach something to people and force them to believe it (like forced speech)
Forcing teachings to teach something they believe.
McLean v. Arkansas
Creationists argue that there should be equal time in the classroom for creation science. But it was denied because creation science is not a science.
Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
Supreme court struck down the attempt to structure creationism as a science in order to get it into the classroom.
Scopes Monkey Trail
- One of the first media trials.
- The dispute between creationism and evolution.
- Law was passed that forbid schools from teaching evolution in school.
- ACLU had scopes challenge the law so they could have a case and take it to the supreme court.
- Clarence Darrow was openly critical of religion nd wanted to lose the case so it could go to the supreme court.
- Instead of letting this happen they let scopes go on a technicality so they couldn’t appeal to a higher court.
Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
Supreme court ruled against the law and said that the teaching of evolution is not only allowed but it must be there because it is scientific theory.
Creationist strategy
since 1968 creationists claimed that you shouldn’t be able to teach something to people and force them to believe it (like forced speech)
Forcing teachings to teach something they believe.
McLean v. Arkansas
Creationists argue that there should be equal time in the classroom for creation science. But it was denied because creation science is not a science.
Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
Supreme court struck down the attempt to structure creationism as a science in order to get it into the classroom.
