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Not only in America, teaching evolution is under attack. Indeed, future Turkish children will likely not learn about evolution in school, as soL international reports:
İsmet Yılmaz, the Minister of National Education in Turkey on Friday announced the new curriculum draft for school. After the draft is finalized, textbooks will be published based on the new draft to be used starting from 2017-2018 academic year.
The new curriculum draft brings some radical changes:
[...] Evolution Theory is excluded from Biology courses. The related unit named "The Origins of Life and the Evolution" is replaced with "Living Beings and Environment".
This is actually not the first strike against evolution in Turkey:
In 2013, the government had made a regulation, which let the Intelligent Design model to be included in the curriculum besides the Evolution Theory.
Also at Turkish Minute: Gov't removes evolution theory from new school curriculum
Related: What is Turkey's problem with Darwin?
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:10PM
The sibling poster is correct, many American colonies were about being able to practice their religion.
One of the motivations for the Revolution was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 (made after Canada (Quebec) was made part of the British Empire), which included allowing Catholics to hold office and have various other rights that previously were denied to them.eg the Bill of Rights of 1689 only gave the right to bear arms to Protestants.
Interestingly I recently read that the first woman to be hung in Massachusetts was a Quaker, hung for preaching. Being a woman, she got 3 chances before being hung, unlike the men in her party who were hung without any chances. Much of the New World was similar, religious colonies that didn't put up with what they considered heresy.
It was very good luck that the writers of the Constitution were very open minded for their time.