Fundamentalist Fairy Tales

February, 1987

Many journalists called it the new monkey trial or Scopes II, as though the hearings in Greeneville, Tennessee, were just another Hollywood sequel. They were wrong. What happened in Tennessee resembled Galileo's meeting with the Grand Inquisitor rather than part two of Inherit the Wind. And what happened in Tennessee--while not devastating in itself--is ominous. It will have far-reaching effects.Last July, born-again Christians from Church Hill went to Federal court to demand that the public sch...