After John Scopes was found guilty, he was forced to pay a fine of 100 dollars ($1,700 now). The ACLU offered to pay the fine, but 2 years later, the decision came to the Supreme Court, where the fine was dismissed. The entire point of the trial was changed from the ACLU trying to challenge the Act into a publicity stunt to gain attention in the small town. Despite the intentions of the trial, it was still a frontier in giving people their freedoms and restoring the balance of seperation of church and state.​​​​​​​

42 years after the trial, the Supreme Court ruled in Epperson vs. Arkansas that anti-evolution statutes are unconstitutional as they violate the 1st amendment. This also made the Butler Act unconstitutional so it had to be repealed. And on May 18, 1967, the Act was officially gone. Even though the Butler Act is gone, that does not mean the debate for evolution versus Creationism is over. Many people are still debating over who is right and wrong almost a century later.