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History proved Bryan to be right in opposing eugenics and the textbook used in the Scopes trial.  Bryan won the trial and kept Tennessee mostly free from the evolution indoctrination that has plagued the United States and Europe.  To this day Tennessee is among the least intrusive states in requiring evolution.  In the eyes of a liberal, pro-evolution group, Tennessee and a few similar states "fail so thoroughly to teach evolution as to render their standards totally useless."<ref>http://www.edexcellence.net/library/lerner/gsbsteits.html</ref>

History proved Bryan to be right in opposing eugenics and the textbook used in the Scopes trial.  Bryan won the trial and kept Tennessee mostly free from the evolution indoctrination that has plagued the United States and Europe.  To this day Tennessee is among the least intrusive states in requiring evolution.  In the eyes of a liberal, pro-evolution group, Tennessee and a few similar states "fail so thoroughly to teach evolution as to render their standards totally useless."<ref>http://www.edexcellence.net/library/lerner/gsbsteits.html</ref>

Thanks to Bryan's victory in the Scopes trial, Tennessee voters have been educated without oppressive evolution theory for 75 years.  Free from the liberal indoctrination, Tennessee voted against native son Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election - probably the only time a candidate has lost the Presidency due to losing his home state. If Tennessee had a high level of belief in evolution comparable to that of East Germany, then you can bet Gore would have won his state and the Presidency.

In 1967, Tennessee repealed the Butler Act, and in 1968, the Supreme Court ruled in Epperson v. Arkansas 393 U.S. 97 that such bans on teaching are unconstitutional because they are primarily religious in cause.

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