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Education

Apr. 9, 2011

Textbook Censorship Sends Troubling Message

Omitting achievements of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans from textbooks amounts to viewpoint discrimination. By Gialisa Gaffaney.


In 2009, two school districts in Tennessee were sued for using filtering software to block pro-gay Web sites (including one that provided information on college scholarships for gay and lesbian students), while not blocking Web sites that were anti-gay. Franks v. Metropolitan Bd. of Public Education The First Amendment does not allow a state actor to censor some views and not others. Thus, blocking pro-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth Web sites wh...

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