Posted on 06/27/2025 9:10:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Maryland parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed, the court ruled.
Public schools in Maryland must allow parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes in which storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes are discussed, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s liberal members in dissent.
The case extended a winning streak for claims of religious freedom at the court, gains that have often come at the expense of other values, notably gay rights.
The case concerned a new curriculum adopted in 2022 for prekindergarten through the fifth grade by the Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system.
The storybooks included “Pride Puppy,” an alphabet primer about a family whose puppy gets lost at a Pride parade; “Love, Violet,” about a girl who develops a crush on her female classmate; “Born Ready,” about a transgender boy; and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” about a same-sex union.
At first, the school system gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed, along with the opportunity to have their children excused. But school administrators soon eliminated the advanced notice and opt-out policy, saying it was hard to administer, led to absenteeism and risked “exposing students who believe the storybooks represent them and their families to social stigma and isolation.”
Parents of several faiths sued, saying the books violated the First Amendment’s protection of the free exercise of religion. The books, their complaint said, “promote one-sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning and focus excessively on romantic infatuation.”
The parents said they did not seek to remove the books from school libraries and classrooms but only to shield their children from having to discuss them. (The school system...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Another 6-3. Probably the most conservative court in 100 years. WINNING.
And according to the nyslimes the problem is?
When is Sotomayor quitting? I need 7-2 winning. 6-3 is not enough.
You ask this question. I ask this question. We all ask this question
Leftist union educrat scum will never answer it. They just want the money and the power.
This is a case of doing the wrong thing the right way.
Good decision, but invalid because the feds (including SCOTUS) have no constitutional power to regulate constitutionally sovereign states and state schools. That begins with unconstitutional federal interference with/support of State Teacher’s Unions.
There’s still no right way to do the wrong thing.
States and the people of each state must decide how to run their own schools and education.
A win for our side.
Exactly.
It’s both sad and shocking there are three justices on the SCOTUS that believe parents have no right to opt their children out of perversion glorification in a public school. IOW, the kids must be exposed to this evil even if their parents object.
Thanks!
At first, the school system gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed, along with the opportunity to have their children excused.
But school administrators soon eliminated the advanced notice and opt-out policy, saying it was hard to administer, led to absenteeism and risked “exposing students who believe the storybooks represent them and their families to social stigma and isolation.”
Parents of several faiths sued, saying the books violated the First Amendment’s protection of the free exercise of religion. The books, their complaint said, “promote one-sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning and focus excessively on romantic infatuation.”
The parents said they did not seek to remove the books from school libraries and classrooms but only to shield their children from having to discuss them. (The school system...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Problem not solved. Grooming won’t end in public school until superintendents, principals and teachers are perp walked out for child sexual abuse.
“Another 6-3. Probably the most conservative court in 100 years. WINNING.”
It is the most conservative court in the adult life span of my wife/me and our siblings and grandkids in school.
The NYT is nothing less than candid here. Apparently such minor considerations as freedom of religion come at the expense of other values the NYT thinks are more important. That their view of "Gay Rights" includes the sexual propagandization of small children and supersedes freedom of religion is apparently a given to them.
“gains that have often come at the expense of other values, notably gay rights”
“Are they finally admitting that they see recruiting children as one of those “rights”?
Apparently so, I suspect every person at the NY Times believes it’s a right.
Degeneracy is still the default.
Some parents will opt out, but a majority of of schoolchildren will still get state sponsored degeneracy training.
Oh, this is great!
The Weird Sisters stick together...
“Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn and cauldron bubble”
So in Maryland kids don’t have to go to school 😳
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