http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/11/e-d-wash-library-prevails-over-aclu-again-courts-says-it-can-filter-porn/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/11/e-d-wash-library-prevails-over-aclu-again-courts-says-it-can-filter-porn/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:25:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130887 Seattle Times: Judge Edward Shea of the Eastern Washington Federal District Court ruled that the North Central Regional Library (NCRL) is not violating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by filtering some adult Internet content on library computers. | Related ACLU Information Page ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/11/e-d-wash-library-prevails-over-aclu-again-courts-says-it-can-filter-porn/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/17/mo-viewpoint-discrimination-in-k-12-school-library-filtering/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/17/mo-viewpoint-discrimination-in-k-12-school-library-filtering/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:45:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126106 The Volokh Conspiracy: As I’ve said before, the Supreme Court has never decided whether K-12 schools may remove books from school libraries based on their viewpoints, or may filter out Web sites based on their viewpoints . . . This makes yesterday’s Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays, Inc. (PFLAG) v. Camdenton R-III School Dist. (C.D. Mo. Jan. 15, 2012) especially interesting . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/17/mo-viewpoint-discrimination-in-k-12-school-library-filtering/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/01/washington-mother-challenges-viewing-of-internet-porn-at-library-girl-saw-it/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/01/washington-mother-challenges-viewing-of-internet-porn-at-library-girl-saw-it/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:24:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124679 Seattle Times Newspaper: After her 10-year-old saw porn on a man's computer screen at the Lake City library, a mom objected — to the library and to the media. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/01/washington-mother-challenges-viewing-of-internet-porn-at-library-girl-saw-it/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/14/texas-marble-falls-library-policy-under-fire/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/14/texas-marble-falls-library-policy-under-fire/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:21:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/14/texas-marble-falls-library-policy-under-fire/ Austin News KXAN.com: "Burnet County Commissioners voted in favor of changing a Marble Falls Public Library policy this afternoon that states, 'Meetings in which a religious worship service are held are not permitted," after the Alliance Defense Fund , a non-profit Christian organization, charged it was religiously discriminatory. The library is among 151 government entities who received a written letter from the ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster last month.'Christians shouldn’t be excluded and restricted from using public meeting rooms and other facilities simply because they plan to express a Christian viewpoint,' Oster said in a recent press release." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/14/texas-marble-falls-library-policy-under-fire/feed/ 0