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LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- On the 20-year anniversary of a federal court ruling that struck down Arkansas' creation-science law, the case was remembered with a panel discussion-turned-roast at a banquet Wednesday for the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Former Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark, who defended the 1981 state law against ACLU lawyers, told an audience of about 100 that he struggled with the decision to defend the law.
The nine-day trial brought ridicule to Arkansas and comparisons to the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Former Gov. Frank White, who signed the legislation requiring Arkansas' public schools to give equal time to creationism if they taught the theory of evolution, was depicted in editorial cartoons as a bumpkin with a banana.