Supreme Court Allows Parents To Opt Children Out Of LGBT Propaganda In School

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The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled Friday that parents are allowed to opt their children out of homosexual and “transgender” propaganda in school, noting that a school district forcing young children to be confronted with the perverse sexual program violates parents’ religious liberty.

The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, arose from a group of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, seeking to remove their young children from course material that “tells children as young as 3 or 4 to look for ‘underwear,’ ‘leather,’ ‘[drag] king,’ and ‘[drag] queen’ in a ‘pride’ parade,” and actively advocates gay marriage, “transgender”-identifying children, and that a “gender identity” can change at any moment.

While Montgomery County schools initially allowed parents to opt their children out, the number of parents requesting such accommodations was so high that the school district cracked down and forced the highly sexual material in front of children. A group of parents sued based on religious liberty grounds protected by the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court decided that the parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction — meaning they can pull their children out of the instruction — as their lawsuit proceeds. The three left-wing justices on the court issued a dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

“[W]e hold that the Board’s introduction of the ‘LGBTQ+-inclusive’ storybooks — combined with its decision to withhold notice to parents and to forbid opt outs — substantially interferes with the religious development of their children and imposes the kind of burden on religious exercise” that the high court has previously ruled is unconstitutional, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. “These books — and associated educational instructions provided to teachers — are designed to ‘disrupt’ children’s thinking about sexuality and gender. … A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses ‘a very real threat of undermining’ the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill.”

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