teacher in any of the universities, Normals [schools were high school graduates were trained as teachers], and all other public schools of the State...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,'" (McGowen 31). After the Butler Act was passed on March 21, 1925, no one paid much attention to whether it contradicted the state and national constitution because no one took it very seriously. Even the governor of Tennessee, Austin Peay, was quoted saying, "Probably the law will never be applied....Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute," (Oates 193). Scopes, who was familiar with the law that had set fundamentalists against evolutionists, then wondered what the sudden commotion about his teaching was caused by. The answer was the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
             The ACLU had been formed in 1920 that provided free legal defense for those who were too poor, too ignorant, or too hated to get a lawyer from anywhere else. The ACLU also felt it was their duty to protect the rights provided by the Bill of Rights and the American Constitution. Therefore, when Lucille D. Milner, the executive secr
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