Posted on 06/27/2025 8:11:24 AM PDT by DFG
The Supreme Court upheld the religious freedom of Maryland parents who challenged a school district policy that prevented them from opting their children out of lessons involving LGBTQ books.
The court ruled, 6-3, that the Maryland parents were entitled to a preliminary injunction.
The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, involved Maryland parents of various faith backgrounds—Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim—asking the court for a temporary injunction, allowing them to opt their kids out of instruction that utilize LGBTQ books that Montgomery County Public Schools has mandated schools teach.
Although Maryland law requires schools to allow parents to opt their children out of “all sexuality instruction” and to provide advanced notice for such lessons, the policy excluded any opt-out right. The school district initially granted the opt-out but later revoked it, saying that too many parents requested to opt out and that the LGBTQ books are exempt from the law because they are taught as literature. The school district defended the policy as advancing the cause of inclusion.
“These books are, in fact, teaching explicit sexual orientation and gender identity issues as early as pre-K,” Will Haun, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, previously told The Daily Signal. The associated reading instructions he said, “Require teachers to make dismissive statements about a student’s religious beliefs, to shame children who disagree, and to teach as facts things that some would not agree are facts.”
The Pride storybooks include selections such as “My Rainbow,” which tells the story of a mother who creates a rainbow-colored wig for a child the book presents as “transgender.”
“Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope” recounts the tale of a biological girl who identifies as a boy and who struggles to convince the world that she is male.
“Prince & Knight” and “Love, Violet” tell same-sex romance stories.
During a Montgomery County school board meeting, board member Lynne Harris said, “Because saying that a kindergartener can’t be present when you read a book about a rainbow unicorn because it offends your religious rights or your family values or your core beliefs is just telling that kid, ‘Here’s another reason to hate another person.’”
Harris also insisted that “transgender, LGBTQ individuals are not an ideology, they’re a reality.”
More winning.
6-3 for sanity, again. Those 3 chicks are bat-crap crazy.
Alito's comments pretty much made that obvious.
First, abolish public “education “
If they can’t then have an “opt in” program. Guarantee no one will opt in.
Perfect.
and care nothing for the law.
Just for the record, ACB has voted right in 7 straight cases, plus wrote the scathing opinion in the national injunction case against Jumpin’ Jackson Brown, in addition to voting right previously on guns, affirmative action, abortion, private sector vax exemptions, Trump immunity, Trump ballot access, SEC, EPA, Chevron, and others.
This decision is simply an acknowledgment of that conflict because if the unenumerated rights of sexual deviancy are truly Constitutional rights, then the state has the power to suppress religious objections as bigoted.
They can't square that circle and eventually either the 1st Amendment or "gay rights" will have to go.
Excellent
Predictably Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Not sure what happened to Barrett. Sane again. And Roberts too. Who scared them straight?
No, they are suffering from a mental disorder.
More good news today.
When kids absent themselves from school for a day, and I’m totally in favor of doing it here, the school loses state money targeted for those kids, at least in some states where public ed is state funded. So if morality and common sense don’t win the day here, maybe economics will.
Those books (and grooming courses) shouldn’t be in any school to begin with.
The court ruled that the parents were entitled to a preliminary injunction.
Doesn’t seem like it’s over
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