1. In 1974 violence broke out Kanawha County, West Virginia over comparative religion textbooks. Fundamentalist parents dynamited a school building among other acts of violence. Then the Heritage Foundation stepped in & offered legal defense for the alleged dynamiters.
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And Balloon Juice
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Is there a connection from the 74 WV actions through to the texas schoolbooks war a decade or so later? They seem related to me.
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The creationist thing was kind of a proxy conflict that was a reaction to the Vietnam war and how the best and brightest DC establishment had failed. The worst thing about Dover school board was a rural district losing a million dollars to a city law firm.
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