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"in 1945, Vashti McCollum... would file a historic lawsuit"

"BILL MOYERS: Welcome to this week's broadcast... Zack is now 19 and a history major at Rice University in Houston. He's with me now."

"I sent an e-mail to Dr. Barbara Forrest, who's an expert about, an expert on this issue."

"and then set up a meeting with me. And we got going from there"

"I got her to agree to sponsor a repeal bill. And that was a great meeting."

"I sent him an e-mail. And he immediately called, he sent me an e-mail back"

"she was an expert witness at the Kitzmiller versus Dover trial"

"She teaches philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana."

"Sir Harry Kroto, who is a Nobel Laureate chemist at Florida State."

"Zack is now 19 and a history major at Rice University in Houston."

"Governor Jindal started voicing his support for intelligent design creationism, he signed the law"

"Teddy Roosevelt, the future president, wrote a biography in which he called Paine "a filthy little atheist""

"BILL MOYERS: Do you think the Gallup poll is simplistic? ZACK KOPPLIN: I think ifs very simplistic."

"BILL MOVERS: Susan Jacoby, welcome back. SUSAN JACOBY: I'm very happy to be back here today."

"Representative Broun is a medical doctor. He is a member of the House Committee on Science. Space and Technology."

"He joined the Republican Party during the Civil War"

"His book The Age of Reason, which was published in 1793"

"so they wrote this law and they passed it on locally to the Louisiana Family Forum"

"the Louisiana Family Forum suggested the law to him"

"So Ingersoll revived Paine's reputation."

"You call Robert Ingersoll... SUSAN JACOBY: That's part of his importance"

"BILL MOYERS: You call Robert Ingersoll, quote, "One of the most important champions of reason""

"this is an idea I borrowed from really the great American religious historian Martin Marty"

"Neal McCluskey at the Cato Institute writes"

"the Illinois State Legislature nearly stopped her and her husband from ever working at the state university again"

"as Ingersoll often spoke of Lincoln"

"Here's what Ingersoll said in the defense of the fellow who was on trial"

"he commuted it to a fine which Ingersoll paid. $200 bucks I think it was."

"because Clarence Darrow had humiliated Williams Jennings Bryan on the stand"

"VICTOR STONE in The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today"

"DAVID MEYER in The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today"

"JIM McCOLLUM in The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today"

"turning Vashti McCollum into an unlikely champion of the separation of church and state"

"WALTER FEINBERG in The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today"

"BILL MOYERS: You mention that Pew Research study... SUSAN JACOBY: Oh, I hate that so much."

"The book is The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought. Susan Jacoby, thank you very much for being with us."

"He was somebody who revered WEB Du Bois"

"she was written out of the suffragists movement for writing a book called "The Woman's Bible""

"The book is The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought"

"Robert Ingersoll said of Thomas Paine. "His life is what the world calls failure and what history calls success.""