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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.


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To: Mount Athos
It really doesn’t matter what other people do in their bedrooms, right?</sarcasm> They become judges, Senators, Congressmen, Mayors, School board Presidents, Principals, Classroom Teachers, and they are activists.
41 posted on 03/14/2012 8:04:06 PM PDT by itsahoot (Tag lines are a waste of bandwidth, as are my comments.)
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To: bossmechanic
Where did the parent’s rights go in all this?

This is what you get with a single payer school system. What, exactly, will it take for conservatives to pull their children out of public schools? At this point, I'm not sure even child molestation would deter them.

42 posted on 03/14/2012 8:05:46 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Mount Athos; metmom; boatbums; caww; smvoice; presently no screen name; Lera; Quix; All
What tragic contrast to its beginnings and much of American education's history: http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Education_in_the_United_States

Early public schools

Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, Volumes 1-2, reports that in the first report of a public school in Washington which they had on file, in 1813 a Mr. Henry Ould states,

55 have learned to read in the Old and New Testaments, and are all able to spell words of three, four, and five syllables; 26 are now learning to read Dr. Watts' Hymns and spell words of two syllables; 10 are learning words of four and five letters. Of 509 out of the whole number admitted that did not know a single letter, 20 can now read the Bible and spell words of three, four, and five syllables, 29 read Dr. Watts' Hymns and spell words of two syllables, and 10 words of four and five letters.”[19]

The Puritan Christian New England Primer was used in New England, which is estimated to have sold upwards to 3,000,000 copies from 1700 to 1850. Introduced in 1690, this reader was used in what now would be the 1st grade, and taught multitudes of children how to read for 200 years, until circa 1900. The alphabet was taught with Bible verses that began with each letter of the alphabet. Lessons had questions about the Bible and the Ten Commandments. An example of the Primer is, A = In Adam's fall, we sinned all. B = Heaven to find, the Bible mind."[20]

In addition, approximately half of all American children learned from the McGuffey Reader, a series of textbooks of which 122 million copies were published (during a time when the population was much less than today, and books were passed on more). The first Reader was published in the 1830's, and was followed by five additional Readers, the last being published in 1885. This was an advanced teaching system for its time, written by William Holmes McGuffey, who later became a Presbyterian minister, and a work which earned him the title, “the Great Schoolmaster of the Nation.” McGuffey believed religion and education were to be interrelated and were essential to a healthy society. McGuffey exalted the Lord Jesus Christ, and used the Bible more than any other source, though the later revised editions (which used McGuffey’s name though he neither contributed to them nor approved their revisions) became more pluralistic in their moral instruction. The Readers were filled with stories of strength, character, goodness and truth, working to instill standards of basic Christian-based morality for more than a century.[21]

McGuffey Readers became the standardized reading text for most schools across the United States, especially throughout the West and South, during the mid to late nineteenth century,[22] [23] and were used widely in America until just after World War I. This resulted in the Readers becoming a unifying force in American culture, giving America a common value-laden body of literary reference and allusion,[24] and “a sense of common experience and of common possession”.[25]

Early elementary schools

The first public elementary schools also taught Christian morality, and even the Unitarian [note 1] Father of the Common School, Horace Mann (4 May 1796 — 2 August 1859), who became Massachusetts Secretary of Education in 1837, evidenced that he rightly understood that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment did not prohibit officially favoring the general, common Christian faith and its morality, but that it forbade official sanction of one particular sect, such as by sanctioning its doctrinal distinctions, stating that “it may not be easy theoretically, to draw the line between those views of religious truth and of Christian faith which is common to all, and may, therefore, with propriety be inculcated in schools, and those which, being peculiar to individual sects, are therefore by law excluded; still it is believed that no practical difficulty occurs in the conduct of our schools in this regard.”[26]

Mann also understood that the “laws of Massachusetts required the teaching of the basic moral doctrines of Christianity.” To critics who were alarmed at the concept of secular schools, he assured that his system "inculcates all Christian morals; it founds its morals on the basis of religion; it welcomes the religion of the Bible...," but he did exhort that Bible reading be without comment to discourage sectarian bickering.[27]

Mann supported prohibition of alcohol and intemperance, slavery and lotteries, [28] and dreaded “intellectual eminence when separated from virtue”, and that education, if taught without moral responsibilities, would produce more evil than it inherited.[29]

While the use of the Bible as a textbook had declined by the 1820s, the reading of it remained a standard practice in public schools, with the contention between Catholics and Protestants in Philadelphia and New York City during the 1840's being which version should be read, which even resulted in riots.[30]

Collegiate education

Reverence and use of the Bible was also prominent in higher education, with the second requirement of Harvard Universities Lawes of 1642 (after requiring literacy in Latin, which language the Scriptures were then mostly translated into), was that "Every one shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life. (Joh. 17:3)[31]

Overall, the nature of early colleges and universities was religious, and this continued at least until the Civil War. Even State colleges had significant religious (most always Christian) components, such as mandatory religion courses and attendance at chapel services, while large numbers of their faculties had formal religious training. [32]

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), the 26th president of the United States (1901-1905), can be seen expressing the importance of the Bible in education:


44 posted on 03/14/2012 8:07:36 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a morally destitute+damned+sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you+live..)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Not to be too nostalgic and all that, but in the old days, there was no internet, and no such thing as internet access in schools. Kids arguably learned more effectively in the old days. That’s a subject for a whole other thread, but, the point being, why do you need computers and internet in a school in the first place? If the judge requires access to pornography, get rid of the computers.

And how is it the responsibility of schools to educate kids about “LGBT” alphabet lifestyles in the first place?


45 posted on 03/14/2012 8:13:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 240B

It’s something called the “march through the institutions”. Some freepers probably know more than I do about it. But years ago, the hippie liberal radical types made decisions to work through the system, to enter education and government and business, in order to change these institutions from within.

Look at college teachers today, and how radical they are. What ever happened to the stereotypical college professor in a tweed jacket, a conservative sort of fellow? He’s long gone from academia.


46 posted on 03/14/2012 8:17:09 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s not, yet some judge in MA declared it is. That is all that this bullying stuff is about, just more gay stuff. Oh and the judge also said parents had no say in what the schools teach.

Get your kids OUT of public school! Put them in Christian school or homeschool. there very lives may depend on it. If your Church doesn’t run one, see about having them start one, My mother helped her congregation to do just that.


47 posted on 03/14/2012 8:38:41 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That is true. It is how they got homosexuality removed from the list of mental disorders.

I think we need to have a wave of class action suits against the schools. And when they reach the courts, do what these perverts do, judge shop!


48 posted on 03/14/2012 8:41:27 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: daniel1212

Bookmark


49 posted on 03/14/2012 8:41:46 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: Haiku Guy

How bout a little Occupy said judges front yard for a couple of months. At least his front sidewalk and in front of his court house.


50 posted on 03/14/2012 8:46:54 PM PDT by biff (WAS)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Well, their ‘master plan’, or whatever, depends completely on people obeying the law and doing what they are told.

The one thing a Leftist has no toleration for is dissension. What they do not seem to comprehend is that when the, so called, ‘law’, becomes utterly absurd, people will simply ignore it. Since, any kind of personal responsibility or personal honor is anathematic to Leftists, they cannot comprehend that a majority of what makes ‘laws’ work is voluntary. When all people simply stop paying taxes, for example, taxes will go away. The old saying, “They can't arrest us all.”, is factually true. They can't.

That will be the end of Leftism. Eventually, as others on the thread have said, people will simply ignore them or move away.

I do believe that even with all of their seeming successes, the Left will fail in the end. The whole Leftist system is built on a corrupt foundation, which is part of the reason it always fails. Leftism is by its own nature, self destructive and self defeating.

When they say they want to ‘change the world’. What they really mean is that they want to change ‘reality’ to fit their fantasy land view of the world. However, reality is a tough opponent and has yet to be defeated.

No matter how much they force us to believe that everyone is basically the same, reality says this is nonsense.

No matter how much they preach to us that homosexuality is the same as heterosexuality, the reality is that it isn't. And homos will still have a much higher percentage of STDs, pedophiles, drug and alcohol abusers than the rest of the population.

The reality is that most parents and adults in general do not want children exposed to this Leftist deviance. That is exactly why the judge ruled this way. The judge is angry that reality is different from the way he/she thinks. The judge is slamming perversion ‘in the face’ of the community and doing it through children. The question of the Left is not that you tolerate homosexuals, but rather you must condone, approve, and even laud homosexuals. It is always about shaping reality. By God! The Leftists said homosexuality is good, dammit, and they are going to force everyone to believe exactly as they do, even if they have to force them to.

This is about changing reality. Reality is the archenemy of Leftism and reality is really what they are at war with, which is why they will ultimately lose.

51 posted on 03/14/2012 8:52:12 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: AnalogReigns

The best defence? Go to the website and print it out.

Stand in front of the school and hand the pages out to the parents as they drop their kids off.

PTA meeting? Bring your print outs.

Board meeting? Bring your print outs.

Anytime any group affiliated with the school gets together, bring your print outs.

They can’t arrest you for distributing what they allow into the schools.

Finally get a board member to take the materials with you to the county DAs office. Show them how the material violates decency laws for schools

Get the board member to make a complaint to the DA.


52 posted on 03/14/2012 8:52:20 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: Mount Athos

I’ll make a prediction: As judges make more and more brazen rulings like these, the judiciary is going to become a very dangerous occupation. It’s not a matter of if, but when.

Lawlessness begets lawlessness. Always has, always will.


53 posted on 03/14/2012 8:56:40 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: Mount Athos
THE JUDGE REMAINS UNIDENTIFIED!

Another Win The Future moment?

A gay judge? A Transexual judge?

Has a judge ever been prosecuted for breaking several laws while making a decision from the bench?
If the judge ordered the principal shot for using common sense would his order have the force of law? How about a lesser crime?

Is this thread for real?

54 posted on 03/14/2012 9:13:12 PM PDT by Publius6961 (“It’s easy to make phony promises you can’t keep.” - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: Haiku Guy
Either that or just cut off all internet access. Not a half bad idea in any case.

The current dysfunctional school-age perverts can access the internet on their phones now.

You think the internet ban blowup was controversial?
Wait until they ban phones!

55 posted on 03/14/2012 9:25:58 PM PDT by Publius6961 (“It’s easy to make phony promises you can’t keep.” - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: SmithL

56 posted on 03/14/2012 9:58:01 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: Dilbert San Diego
It’s something called the “march through the institutions”. Some freepers probably know more than I do about it. But years ago, the hippie liberal radical types made decisions to work through the system, to enter education and government and business, in order to change these institutions from within. Look at college teachers today, and how radical they are. What ever happened to the stereotypical college professor in a tweed jacket, a conservative sort of fellow? He’s long gone from academia.

Are you thinking of Bill Lind's article "The Origins of Political Correctness"? He goes into the detail of what you are saying and what happened. Here it is

57 posted on 03/14/2012 11:17:36 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Mount Athos

Since when in hell are schools subject to the 1st Amendment. So let me get this straight. I can go to the lecture hall at my local college and I can shout down the professor because I have a 1st amendment right to free speech, right? Bullcrap. Aint going to happen. There is NO free speech right on a school campus, or every kid would have the freedom to talk all through every class.

I loathe the ACLU, liberals, leftists, socialists. When do we get to start shooting them?


58 posted on 03/14/2012 11:52:37 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: 240B

“they cannot comprehend that a majority of what makes ‘laws’ work is voluntary.”


And with that simple statement you illustrate why ALL leftist regimes ALWAYS turn to FORCE and Violence or the threat of violence to get “the People” to do what they want them to do.

And why in the end their regimes always come crashing down.


59 posted on 03/15/2012 3:38:52 AM PDT by The Working Man (No child left behind should be: No Child left a dime.)
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To: The Working Man
And why in the end their regimes always come crashing down.

In the end? Look back through world history and see what has been the default regime-style.
60 posted on 03/15/2012 4:05:47 AM PDT by aruanan
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