A nonprofit religious freedom organization is providing tools for parents to help them opt out of public-school LGBTQ+ instruction, curriculum and materials after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Friday.
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Maryland school board’s introduction of “LGBTQ+-inclusive” books and curriculum “combined with its no-opt-out policy, burdens the parents’ right to the free exercise of religion.”
The school board previously allowed for an opt-out policy but reversed it, arguing it was too difficult to manage, The Center Square reported.
Because the school board refused to allow an opt-out option, the court held that if it didn’t issue an injunction to halt the school district’s policy, parents would be forced to keep making the same choice. They would be forced to “either risk their child’s exposure to burdensome instruction, or pay substantial sums for alternative educational services,” the ruling states. “As we have explained, that choice unconstitutionally burdens the parents’ religious exercise, and ‘[t]he loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.’”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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