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Judge rules school must allow access to sexually explicit LGBT sites
Greely Gazette ^ | March 14, 2012 | Jack Minor

Posted on 03/14/2012 6:46:53 PM PDT by Mount Athos

A federal judge has ordered a Missouri school district to unblock its web filters and give students access to sexually explicit material by the middle of March.

A US District Judge issued a preliminary junction against the Camdenton R – III School District banning them from using filtering software. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the district claiming it was deliberately restricting access to homosexual themed sites, while allowing students to view what it claims are “anti-LG BT sites that condemn homosexuality.”

In issuing its ruling, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said the district's custom filtering system "systematically allows access to websites expressing a negative viewpoint toward LGBT individuals by categorizing them as 'religion,' but filters out positive viewpoints toward LGBT issues by categorizing them as 'sexuality.”

Joe Ortwerth, executive director of the Missouri Family Policy Council, says, “When you consider that there's a federal law on the books that obligates school districts to ensure that their computers do not allow access to materials that might be pornographic for minors, this judge's action -- considering that -- is pretty shocking.”

The ACLU’s website claims that schools cannot block LGBT sites claiming that to do so is a violation of the First Amendment. “Programs that block all LGBT content violate First Amendment rights to free speech, as well as the Equal Access Act, which requires equal access to school resources for all extracurricular clubs, including gay-straight alliances and LGBT support groups.”

Among the sites the ACLU says students have a right to view is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. The site provides a link to “It Gets Better” which is a program advocating the homosexual lifestyle founded by Dan Savage, a “gay” sex columnist.

Savage is known for his vulgar and raunchy columns. He was also responsible for “bullying” Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum by creating a “Google bomb” that attached a vile sex term to the candidate’s name.

Savage has engaged in other hateful comments such as saying on Bill Maher’s television show, “I wish all Republicans were f***ing dead.” And has said on HBO that he wanted to rape Santorum.

The ACLU disputes that it is advocating students be allowed to view pornographic material, however, by disabling the filters in order for students to view “safe sites” sexually explicit sites will be permitted as well.

The Alliance Defense Fund, which filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of the school, noted that the “sexuality” filter blocks access to over 8,200 websites of which 7,800 would not be blocked by using the “adult” or “porn” filters and that many of the 7,800 sites contain sexually explicit materials.

The brief provided examples of specific sites that would not be blocked by the filter that provided access to pornographic images and pictures.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Illinois
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1 posted on 03/14/2012 6:46:59 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

This so called “judge” needs to be arrested, indicted, tried and locked up where he belongs.


3 posted on 03/14/2012 6:49:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (“The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid." - Dem pollster, Tom Jensen)
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To: Mount Athos

Rulings like this need to be simply defied. Let the judge send in marshalls to shut the school down....


4 posted on 03/14/2012 6:52:39 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (because REALITY is never digital...)
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To: Mount Athos
Laughrey, Nanette Kay
Born 1946 in Cheyenne, WY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 20, 1995, to a seat vacated by Joseph E. Stevens, Jr.. Confirmed by the Senate on July 24, 1996, and received commission on August 1, 1996. Assumed senior status on August 27, 2011.

Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 20, 1995, to a seat vacated by Joseph E. Stevens, Jr.. Confirmed by the Senate on July 24, 1996, and received commission on August 1, 1996. Assumed senior status on August 27, 2011.

Education:
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1967
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, J.D., 1975

Professional Career:
Assistant state attorney general, Missouri, 1975-1979
Municipal judge, City of Columbia, Missouri, 1979-1983
Private practice, Columbia, Missouri, 1980-1983
Faculty, University of Missouri-Columbia Law School, 1983-1996
Associate professor, 1983-1987
Professor, 1987-1996
Deputy state attorney general, Missouri, 1992-1993

5 posted on 03/14/2012 6:52:39 PM PDT by SmithL (If you reward certain behavior, don't be surprised when you see more of that behavior)
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To: Mount Athos

Evil. Just pure evil.


6 posted on 03/14/2012 6:52:43 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: Mount Athos

If I were a parent in that district, I would demand that they pull every damn computer in that school. Let the teachers use their minds to instruct the children, instead of just plugging them into a machine.

Either that or just cut off all internet access. Not a half bad idea in any case.


7 posted on 03/14/2012 6:54:54 PM PDT by Haiku Guy ("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Mount Athos
Ridiculous- No porn of any kind should be shown or
obtained during school. The whole world is going insane.
Now I am going to read the thread about a Planned Parenthood
exec exposing himself in the park-WTH?
8 posted on 03/14/2012 6:57:39 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Mount Athos

Why do students need access to LBGT websites? Aren’t they there to learn the 3 R’s?


9 posted on 03/14/2012 6:59:09 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: FlingWingFlyer
This so called “judge” needs to be arrested, indicted, tried and locked up where he belongs.

Way too much of an investment when there is one simple solution.

10 posted on 03/14/2012 6:59:52 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: Mount Athos

Only over my dead body will any child of mine EVER set foot, for any reason, inside a public school. IMHO anyone who sends their most precious possession to a public school is guilty of child abuse. When I went to public school the worst that could be said was that the teachers were lazy and uninvolved. Now it is all about some variation of perversion. Why can’t we allow children to be children?


11 posted on 03/14/2012 7:01:09 PM PDT by DonPaulJonesII (WARNING: Poster does not play well with others!)
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To: Mount Athos

Are they going to hand over their children to perversion based on a threat from a federal judge?


12 posted on 03/14/2012 7:02:44 PM PDT by donna (Republicans won't change their ways until conservatives draw the line.)
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To: Mount Athos

I say bring back books.

Disconnect the internet, while it’s appealed.

Just pull the plug, and explain why.


13 posted on 03/14/2012 7:04:00 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: Mount Athos

and Obama’s judges will haunt America for generations! Senate Republicans are idiots for allowing more of Obama’s liberal judges to be confirmed.


14 posted on 03/14/2012 7:04:40 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: SmithL
"Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 20, 1995"

I'll bet Billy Jeff enjoyed that interview.

15 posted on 03/14/2012 7:06:03 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: jakerobins

You’re right.

It’s how liberals take over schools and unions, and television stations, and newspapers.

While we’re out trying to do the right thing.

They’re taking over. They don’t want to do the right thing, they want power.

Yet we just keep trying to do the right thing.

It’s like trying to use logic with a mugger.


16 posted on 03/14/2012 7:06:26 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: Mount Athos; wagglebee
The ACLU’s website claims that schools cannot block LGBT sites claiming that to do so is a violation of the First Amendment. “Programs that block all LGBT content violate First Amendment rights to free speech, as well as the Equal Access Act, which requires equal access to school resources for all extracurricular clubs, including gay-straight alliances and LGBT support groups.”

BUT BUT BUT, how can this be?

They said that homosexuality was about consenting ADULTS in PRIVATE, not minors in public schools.

17 posted on 03/14/2012 7:09:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: AnalogReigns
Rulings like this need to be simply defied. Let the judge send in marshalls to shut the school down....

Exactly. They won't though, schools are scared spitless of the ACLU.

18 posted on 03/14/2012 7:10:56 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Hope springs eternal - maybe the Bucs will break .500 this year)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Soon its going to be time to deal with the mugger the proper way.


19 posted on 03/14/2012 7:11:11 PM PDT by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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20 posted on 03/14/2012 7:11:59 PM PDT by narses
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