New York Times article examines lawsuit against Camdenton Schools over software that blocks gay information sites

The ACLU's lawsuit against the Camdenton Schools' over filtering software that blocks gay information sites has reached the New York Times.

In today's edition, the Times explores the lawsuit, beginning this way:

Students using the computers at Camdenton High School here in central Missouri have been able to access the Web sites for Exodus International, as well as People Can Change, antigay organizations that counsel men and women on how to become heterosexual.
But the students have not been able to access the Web sites of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.
They have been able to read Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 Supreme Court ruling that upheld a Georgia statute criminalizing sodomy. But they have been blocked from reading Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court ruling that held that laws criminalizing sodomy were unconstitutional.

The article explores what is known about the man in England who devised the filtering software. The only thing it really doesn't address is that the two sides are close to an agreement on the issue.

Previous Turner Report coverage can be found at these sites:

Judge: Camdenton School District cannot block gay websites

Camdenton School District, ACLU reach agreement on gay websites lawsuit