Posted on 05/22/2024 6:19:25 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Despite national attention and thousands of protesting parents, a federal court is refusing to allow parents to opt their children out of LGBT courses in school. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided on Wednesday that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland does not have to allow parents to opt their children out of LGBT-themed lessons. Judge G. Steven Agee, a George W. Bush appointee, claimed that the parents seeking to opt their children out of the lessons in question did not provide sufficient evidence to justify a preliminary injunction.
In March of last year, MCPS added nearly two dozen “LGBTQ+ inclusive texts” to the pre-K through 8th grade curriculum. According to a lawsuit filed in May, parents were told that “no notice will be given” of when LGBT-themed lessons will be taught and that “no opt-outs [will be] tolerated because [students] must learn to be more ‘LGBTQ-Inclusive.’” The federal lawsuit was brought by a group of Christian and Muslim parents who wished to remove their children from LGBT-themed lessons on religious grounds. Over 1,000 parents — including Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox, evangelical, Muslim, and Jewish parents — attended a subsequent MCPS board meeting to protest the decision to rescind parental opt-outs.
Then, in August, Biden-appointed U.S. District Court judge Deborah Boardman ruled against Maryland parents, claiming that mandatory LGBT lessons do not constitute a religious liberty infringement. She wrote that reading books about transgenderism, drag queens, and bondage fetishes to children as young as three “is not indoctrination” and does not “directly or indirectly” coerce children into activity “that violates their religious beliefs.” Instead, she suggested that concerned parents — who, according to the policy Boardman sanctioned, have no notice of when these lessons are being taught — discuss the lessons with their children at home after school...
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> Muslim family was part of the lawsuit. <
Yes. I should have been clearer in my previous post, and noted that.
My comment relates more to what will happen behind the scenes, at each individual school. Christian and Jewish kids will be forced to sit through the LGBT nonsense. The Muslim kids will quietly be accommodated.
“Mohammed, we’re going to discuss something now that will not interest you. Report to the library and do some homework.”
That might not happen immediately. But I’m betting it will happen.
““is not indoctrination” and does not “directly or indirectly” coerce children into activity “that violates their religious beliefs.””
If that is the case, then neither does the teaching of Christian values.
“It is clearly stated in the Holy Quran:
‘Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by committing great sins)’
[al-A’raaf 7:80-81]
It is very clearly mentioned in this verse that the people of Lut were engaging in homosexuality and it was a manifest sin. Many other verses imply the same meaning and verdict without any disagreement or discrepancy on the matter.”
https://www.anic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Islams-Clear-Position-on-Homosexuality.pdf
My son’s conservative Christian private school is turning away applicants because they don’t have enough room or teachers to accommodate them. Several grades are adding an extra class next year, as we try to make more classroom space. The crap in this article is a lot of the reason for the demand.
Only if individual parents permit it — fundamentally lazy ones.
Sue individuals involved. Go after them by name. Allow no hiding behind “institution policies”. People signed off on those, get names and sue them.
“Decriminalize homosexuality”, they said. “We just want to be left alone”, they said.
Yes they can, if they homeschool.
“Federal Court Rules Maryland Parents Cannot Opt Children Out of LGBT Lessons”
It should be noted that the UK is in the process of OUTLAWING this crap for kids under 10 and also allowing parental opt-out for kids over 10, while most ‘backwards’ countries (think Africa and Russia) don’t allow any of this crap.
That’s how SICK the US has become.
“Since the prohibition has come from his Lord, the Muslim should not wait until medicine proves that harm befalls the one who does that which Allah has forbidden. Rather he must believe firmly that Allah only prescribes that which is good for people, and these modern discoveries should only increase his certainty and confidence in the greatness of Allah’s wisdom.”
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/10050/why-does-islam-forbid-lesbianism-and-homosexuality
My guess is he does and is in favor of it.
and the state will still vote blue
but keep voting dem
The children belong to the parents, not the state. WE choose what our children are exposed to (with obvious exception to the vile), not the state.
It’s time We The People remember that we’re supposed to be in charge, not a tyrannical government.
Something wrong with this clown. Either a fruitcake or a pedophile.
Worst part is the puny percentage of parents who WOULD opt out.
The public schools and the government have to keep working on behalf of Satan! ...imho
“Totalitarians think they own your children.”
Totalitarians think they own you, me and all we own too.
We shouldn’t have to sue to get them to do the right thing.
We need to beef up how we go about impeaching judges who decide special groups have “rights” but the rest of the public does not.
This is what a Satanic nation under occupation looks like.
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