Russian Scopes Trial over

Posted 21 February 2007 by Nick Matzke

Well, I was having a hard time imagining this one anyway:

Anti-Darwin Suit Dismissed The Oktyabrsky District Court in St. Petersburg on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Maria Shraiber, a 15-year-old who argued that being taught the theory of evolution in school violated her civil rights, Interfax reported. The court also dismissed Shraiber's request that the government provide her with a written apology for offending her religious beliefs. Shraiber's representatives vowed to appeal the ruling to St. Petersburg's City Court. (MT)

Next country to watch: the Dominican Republic.

2 Comments

serg · 22 February 2007

"Well, I was having a hard time imagining this one anyway"

I did have certain doubts - that swine, the Patriarch, had implicitly supported the Shrajbers. And the courts are far from free and uncorrupted in Russia. Let's hope nothing happens on appeal.

wamba · 22 February 2007

They should have ruled that she be publicly spanked for wasting the court's time, and her father as well.