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Article: Odd alliances, new foes in Minneapolis porn case; The fight of 12 library workers to rid the library of sexually graphic Web sites is at the forefront of a nationwide debate.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 5, 2001
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Byline: Kevin Diaz; Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. -- Wendy Adamson, a 58-year-old Minneapolis librarian, says she doesn't want to be seen as a "right-wing prude."
So she's a little uncomfortable that the Family Research Council has championed her as one of the "Minneapolis 12" - a reference to the dozen downtown library workers who complained about the hard-core porn sites that they see on public Internet terminals.
The year-old case has created strange bedfellows of family-values groups and civil-rights advocates.
To the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which preliminarily ruled in their favor May 24, their unwilling ...