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...After signing the anti-evolution bill in March, said governor Austin Peay: "After a careful examination, I could find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools with which this bill will interfere the slightest manner...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
Governor Austin Peay read this bill with pleasure. He took up his pen, affixed his name in such a position as to make the bill a law, then wrote a letter to the legislators: "Right or wrong, there is a deep and widespread belief that something is shaking the fundamentals of the country, both in religion and morals. It is the opinion of many than an abandonment of the old fashioned faith and belief in the Bible is our trouble in large degrees. It is my own belief...
...Governor Peay of Tennessee can doubtless be awarded honorable mention, if not a prize, for his recent action, a not worthy bit of gubernatorial casuistry. Explaining in a statement to the Tennessee Legislature yesterday why he signed a bill to prohibit the teaching of evolution in the schools of the state, he linked an appeal for return to the old fashioned in the Bible with a citation of "one's right to worship according to the dictates of his conscience...
...trustees, having heard the other unfortunate professors, voted to sustain their discharge. Two dissenting votes were cast-one by Mr. Smith, one by Governor Peay...