School board settlement with ACLU stirs anger in Camdenton
Nothing stirs up a small town quite like the American Civil Liberties Union.
When attorneys for that group demanded that the high school in Camdenton, Mo., stop using an Internet filter that discriminated against gay-friendly websites, folks packed school board meetings.
How dare this New York City bunch come in here and tell how us to raise our kids!
They wanted to fight. The local tea party rallied the troops. The crowd at a Friday night football game cheered wildly when a plane flew over pulling the banner: THANK YOU CAMDENTON! GET LOST ACLU!
That was last fall. Now this lake town is really fuming.
Earlier this week, the Camdenton school board agreed to settle a federal lawsuit brought against the district, agreed to allow sites such as that of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and agreed to pay $125,000 for the plaintiffs’ legal fees.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/29/3523456/school-board-settlement-with-aclu.html#storylink=cpy
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