Tennessee schools sued for blocking LGBT sites

[WillParkinson]

Tennessee schools sued for blocking LGBT sites

(Nashville, Tennessee) The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Tennessee filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against two Tennessee school districts, charging the schools are unconstitutionally blocking students from accessing online information about LGBT issues.

The lawsuit names Knox County Schools and Metropolitan Nashville Schools and was filed on behalf of two high school students in Nashville, one student in Knoxville and a high school librarian in Knoxville who is also the advisor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA).

Students at Knox County and Metro Nashville schools and others are being denied access to content that is protected speech under the First Amendment as well as the Tennessee state constitution, the lawsuit says.

Students who need to do research for assignments on current events can only get one viewpoint, keeping them from being able to cover both sides of the issue.

When public schools only allow access to one side of an issue by blocking certain websites, they’re engaging in illegal viewpoint discrimination, the ACLU said.

http://www.365gay.com/news/tennessee-schools-sued-for-blocking-lgbt-sites/

[joeybee12]

1. Hmmm...Tennessee...home of the Scopes trial...

...and apparently nothing has changed there since then.

[pleah]

2. K&R Good.