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Supreme Court Requires Schools to Allow Opting Out From L.G.B.T.Q. Stories
The New York Times ^ | June 27, 2025, 10:57 a.m. ET | By Adam Liptak

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...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigwin; childabuse; education; groomers; grooming; homosexualpolicy; lgbtq; publicschoolgroomers; publicschoolgrooming; scotus; winning
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1 posted on 06/27/2025 9:10:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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Another 6-3. Probably the most conservative court in 100 years. WINNING.


2 posted on 06/27/2025 9:14:33 AM PDT by nwrep
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Why in the world did they think prekindergarten children needed to know about homosexuality?

That's not education; it's brainwashing and grooming.
3 posted on 06/27/2025 9:14:57 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And according to the nyslimes the problem is?


4 posted on 06/27/2025 9:15:12 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When is Sotomayor quitting? I need 7-2 winning. 6-3 is not enough.


5 posted on 06/27/2025 9:17:20 AM PDT by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"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"?
6 posted on 06/27/2025 9:17:39 AM PDT by fluffy
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Why in the world did they think prekindergarten children needed to know about homosexuality?

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.

7 posted on 06/27/2025 9:17:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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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.


8 posted on 06/27/2025 9:18:18 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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A win for our side.


9 posted on 06/27/2025 9:19:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: Jamestown1630

Exactly.


10 posted on 06/27/2025 9:24:30 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


11 posted on 06/27/2025 9:25:38 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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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 ...


12 posted on 06/27/2025 9:26:02 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Drones have forever changed fighting wars/with Navy/Army top water or below and anything that flies)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Problem not solved. Grooming won’t end in public school until superintendents, principals and teachers are perp walked out for child sexual abuse.


13 posted on 06/27/2025 9:27:20 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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“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.


14 posted on 06/27/2025 9:28:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Drones have forever changed fighting wars/with Navy/Army top water or below and anything that flies)
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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 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.

15 posted on 06/27/2025 9:32:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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“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.


16 posted on 06/27/2025 9:36:31 AM PDT by DAC21
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A good decision under the circumstances, but I fear we are still past the point of no return.

Degeneracy is still the default.

Some parents will opt out, but a majority of of schoolchildren will still get state sponsored degeneracy training.

17 posted on 06/27/2025 9:38:25 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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Oh, this is great!


18 posted on 06/27/2025 9:43:03 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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The Weird Sisters stick together...

“Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn and cauldron bubble”


19 posted on 06/27/2025 9:43:55 AM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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So in Maryland kids don’t have to go to school 😳


20 posted on 06/27/2025 9:49:23 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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