CNN senior legal analyst Ellie Honig said Friday that Supreme Court oversight, along with parents who want to select their children from mandated LGBTQ storybook lessons, was the first amendment victory.
The court ruled 6-3, and held that parents argued that the Montgomery County Board of Education rejected in March 2023 to infringe their First Amendment rights by allowing them to opt out of required measurements, including pronouns, transgender children and parades of pride. On the “Situation Room,” Honig said the ruling was marked “an expansion of the free exercise of the first amendment of religious principles.” (Related: CNN’s Elie Honig says that if the court “doesn’t agree” with his decision, then he can’t make a “second guess” Trump.
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“Public primary schools have adopted a curriculum that includes stories that include LGBTQ characters and themes. Parent groups from various religions are opposed to religious-based free exercise, and now the Supreme Court has agreed to their parents,” Honig said. “They say, yes, parents have the right to separate students from certain ranks under the First Amendment, religious freedom, and the free exercise of religious provisions… primary school students at Maryland public schools.”
“Look, this is a victory and an expansion of the free exercise of the first amendment of religious principles,” he continued. “This coincides with where this Supreme Court went. And while it’s a set-up for the school district, it’s a real victory for the parents who sue us here.”
A group of Christian and Muslim parents sued the district in May 2023.
Judge Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion that the school board refused to reject his parents and refused to choose to give their parents the right to freely exercise their religion, unconstitutional. He was a man with his parents. He added that he demonstrated that he was entitled to a preliminary injunction until the end of Taylor’s lawsuit.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissent, added by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, that schools should “provide education and opportunities for children of all faiths and backgrounds to practice life in our multicultural society.”
“That experience is important to the vitality of our nation’s citizens,” writes Sotomayor. “But if children must be insulated by exposure to ideas and concepts that may contradict their parents’ religious beliefs, then it becomes merely a memory.”
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