This is something of a contrast with “equal time” laws that were developed subsequently, according to which school had to teach creationism alongside evolution. No, he wanted to re-enact something like the law Scopes violated in Tennessee.
Our pastor's response was to publicly criticize this effort. Dr. Long thought that a battle with the theory of evolution was ill-advised, and said so from the pulpit. The Huntley-Brinkley report, then NBC’s big competitor with Walter Cronkite on CBS, picked up the story, and an excerpt from Dr. Long’s sermon was on the national news.
Your old pastor sounds like a smart man.
ReplyDeleteI am amazed when I realize most people don't know who Huntley and Brinkley were. But then I think how many are thinking "who the hell was Walter Cronkite?"
ReplyDeleteI am old as dirt