Atheist, LGBT & Freethought Sites Censored by School District

parents have a right to say what their children (minors under their care) should be exposed to, not the school. Put it to a vote at a PTG meeting

our educational system is archaic as they come & already a decade late for an update! but then to block avenues of learning even further? sounds just like america.

Do they block their home computers as well? Shouldn't students actually be in CLASS learning math, science, english, etc?

Well, this could get ugly.

I am going to write these folks I think young adults have to see all options of religion or beliefs. What is going on with the religious right nowadays,they are trying to shove their thoughts on everybody.

This is bullshit. If this spreads to other parts of Indiana (which it probably will) Something is going to have to happen at the Federal level to fix this.

I remember when I was in school, they used to censor anything regarding socialism, communism or Marxism. It made doing reports a little annoying.

Not only that, but it didn't work. Smart kids figured out ways to get around the screening, so all it did was punish kids actually trying to get work done.

What I think is hilarious is that the same cunts that instituted this policy would probably go home and watch the news about Chinese internet and snort about how much better it is to be free in America.

Much like how national politics works, there is this annoying minority of stuck-up, conservative fucktards who yell and scream as loud as they can to censor and lock away things to "protect" children. And the administrators are either too cowardly, too dumb or too fascist to care about it.

I live in Indianapolis. It dosn't amaze me to much about not allowing students to compare religious beleif. If it was up to the school board around here the earth would only be 10000 years old, and the only book that would realy count is the bible. If it was up to our government system many would be burnt at the stake for herasy. They would also sell tickets to the event by privetizing the rights for exectution.

It's getting scary in this country, remember the school in missouri that caved in to parents about the Brass Evolutions band tshirts? Now this, I am so sick of certain religious groups in this country. What they don't realize is that we left england because we wanted to get away from a religious-ran state, now the religious-right wants to become exactly that, which is the most un-american thing I can think of and most of the founding fathers would be rolling in their graves if they knew what was going on now. The conservatives have been on the wrong side of history in almost every case when it pertains to social issues and progression of cultural values in this country.

c'mon delia, you can't indoctrinate young minds with that sort of extreme philosophy. they should only be exposed to points of view that are grounded in sound moral values; otherwise they're bound to become misguided radicals.

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Methinks the district is being responsive to the parents that actually pay for it as opposed to outside pressure groups that this article is designed to stir up. Mind your own business, raise your own kids if you have them, and pay attention to your own local districts and quit pestering these people.

the proper link to this article is http://ffrf.org/news/2009/censoredatheistwebsites.php

This is a terrible move on Indiana's part but what can you expect from a state that led the crowds in book burning this past century? Good luck to FFRT in their campaign to protect freedom of information.

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No such thing as free speech in school. Sorry.

I would write a letter....but the reason behind writing one is terrible and therefore I won't and I write great letters. I get responses.

Oh dear, our school system keeps on shooting itself in the foot doesn't it? Did they really think they could get away with that? Dumb move guys, dumb move.

Indeed, such an outrage. There should be no filters at all on school computers. After all, suppose a child wanted to do a report on the biological consequences of having raucous gay buttsex? Should they not, then, be able to view pornographic homosexual websites? Also, they should be able to watch violent videos of the war overseas, so that they have no innocence and are forced to deal with all the fucked up people in this world, whether they like it or not. This shouldn't even be an issue, it's absolutely ridiculous.

Haha how ridiculous... to try to block stuff that like that... the only thing the school will bring to itself with regulations like these, are protests like these from different social / religious groups. I can understand blocking stuff like pornography or other explicit content, but not this kind of stuff.

Haha well, while i agree that those things being blocked is sort of discrimantory... the school has a right to those filters. So does your job because those are not free networks.
That issue remains solely with the parents and school board i seriously doubt they would consider the opinions of random citizens who aren't directly affected.

I don't think the question is simply "Do they have a right to them", but "are they discriminatory?" - If sites with sexual information are inappropriate, all sex related sites should be banned,not just LGBT. If you don't want people looking at religious sites, why only block "alternative religion" but give a pass to the mainstream ones? The schools/my job may have the right to filters, but do they have the right to openly support one religion or sexual orientation over another?

Not everything is religion just because people say it is.

Ohno do you know what they block at work? They block porn and chat sites and all kinds of places that use videos. They are ruining my first amendment rights. Woe.....is me.

my school blocks google.

What the religious right seems to not care about is the fact that there NEEDS to be a separation of church and state...and that includes ALL learning centers, or we will become a country that is run by religious zealots.
Hmmm...want to live under religious rule? Go back to burning witches and stoning women to death? No laughter allowed, no music unless it's religious....yep...sounds like a lot of fun.
NOT!