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- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District abstract "Wright v. Houston Independent School District was a 1972 American legal case brought by a parent of a student in the Houston Independent School District in Houston, Texas suing on behalf of her daughter and fellow students to prevent the district from teaching evolution as fact and without reference to alternative theories. The plaintiffs claimed evolutionary theory endorsed a secularist religious view, and argued the school's failure to incorporate the teaching of a particular religious alternative to evolutionary theory as derived from the Bible's creation account held that religious view up to ridicule and contempt. To allow evolution while avoiding creationism was unconstitutional, the suit claimed, because it advanced one particular sectarian view over another. The plaintiffs maintained that the school's evolutionary teaching constituted "the establishment of a sectarian, atheistic religion" and was an interference of their own rights to the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the Establishment clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The case is one of a series of legal battles over the teaching of evolution in American public schools, and the first to be initiated by opponents of such teaching.The suit was dismissed prior to trial, the presiding judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas finding Wright had "wholly failed to establish the analogy" between the teaching of evolution and an establishment of religion. The Court held:Plaintiffs' case depends in large measure upon their demonstrating a connection between "religion," as employed in the first amendment, and Defendants' approach to the subject of evolution. The Court is convinced that the connection is too tenuous a thread on which to base a first amendment complaint.The judge Woodrow B. Seals outlined three findings. He found the Houston school district was not following any policy to promote secularism. Further, he found the free exercise of religion did not include any such right to be shielded from scientific theories which are incompatible with a particular religious belief. And he rejected the plaintiffs' proposal that the school district be court ordered to provide "equal time" in the curriculum for alternative theories, finding such an order would constitute unwarranted intrusion into the district's affairs.Wright appealed the decision to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1973 the Appeals Court affirmed the lower court decision dismissing the suit. In June 1974 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and later lawsuits involving restrictions and impositions on evolution in school curricula reaffirmed the Wright decision.".
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- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District citations "17280.0".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District court "United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District courtseal "150".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District decidedate "--10-10".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District decideyear "1973".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District fullname "Rita Wright et al., Plaintiffs, Leona Weber, acting as next friend for Rita Wright, a minor, Plaintiff-Appellant, John R. Brown, Sr., Individually, etc., et al., Intervenors-Appellants, v. The Houston Independent School District et al., Defendants-Appellees.".
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- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District holding "The teaching of evolution does not constitute establishment of secular religion; religious protections do not require shielding those from views they find incompatible with their religion; it would be unwarranted intrusion for courts to compel schools to balance curriculum with alternative theories; District Court decision affirmed".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District judges Charles_Clark_(judge).
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District judges Irving_Loeb_Goldberg.
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District judges Paul_Hitch_Roney.
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District lawsapplied First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution.
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District lawsapplied Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution.
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District litigants "Wright v. Houston Independent School District".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District majority "unsigned".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District prior "--08-03".
- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District subsequent "United States Supreme Court refused appeal June 1974; dismissal affirmed".
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- Wright_v._Houston_Independent_School_District comment "Wright v. Houston Independent School District was a 1972 American legal case brought by a parent of a student in the Houston Independent School District in Houston, Texas suing on behalf of her daughter and fellow students to prevent the district from teaching evolution as fact and without reference to alternative theories.".
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