Posted on 06/09/2023 7:06:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
Washington D.C., Jun 8, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). A group of Muslim parents joined parental and religious freedom rights advocates Tuesday to protest a Maryland school system’s new policy that removes the parents’ authority to opt their children out of coursework that promotes homosexuality and transgenderism.
The June 6 protest at the Montgomery County public school district’s headquarters was led by a group called Family Rights for Religious Freedom. About 50 parents and activists carried signs that read “family rights” and “restore the opt-out” while chanting slogans such as “protect our children” and “religious freedom now.”
Maryland law requires that school districts allow parents to opt out of coursework that deals with “family life and human sexuality.” However, the school district decided in March that it does not consider reading materials that discuss subjects related to homosexuality, transgenderism, and other aspects of gender ideology to be a part of “family life and human sexuality instruction.”
For this reason, beginning on May 1, the school district no longer notifies parents of such material in the coursework and will not allow them to opt out.
“We don’t want to be put aside as basically irrelevant,” Wael Elkoshairi, who leads Family Rights for Religious Freedom, told CNA.
The school district has approved several books that discuss subjects related to homosexuality and transgenderism for students as young as 3 or 4 years old. This includes a book called “Pride Puppy!”, which seeks to teach children the alphabet through a story about a homosexual pride parade and introduces them to words like “drag queen,” “leather,” and “zipper.” It also introduces them to Marsha B. Johnson, who was a drag queen, a gay rights activist, and, temporarily, a prostitute.
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Hmm. I wonder what reading the victim-ometer will settle on in this case.
Coursework that promotes homosexuality and transgenderism. Not only should parents be able to opt their children out of these, but they shouldn’t be in schools at all. I don’t agree with Muslims on most things, but if they want to throw a few pedophiles from tall buildings I’ll look the other way.
its indeed a thorny case
The Government and MSM solution will be to remove it from the news entirely.
Wow. The Muslims may save us before they behead us.
Yes, I should have thought of that. I'm sure you're right.
In 2016 a significant percentage of Hispanics voted for President Trump. The Drive-By Media went bonkers. The Muslims in America may not rejoice in America, but they, like most parents anywhere, do not want anyone messing with their children. Cannot wait for some democRAT to complain about this.
Of course not.
I hate to say this but someday a parent is going to go in and shoot up a school board meeting and maybe then they will get the message.
Heads may roll.
Muslims aren’t ready to give their kids to Satan, unlike most other religions in this country. They deserve respect.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, it has been said.
“They deserve respect’’.
I haven’t forgotten 9/11.
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