The Supreme Court hears the challenge Tuesday for Maryland parents to ban young children from ousting their children from reading storybooks about Pride Parade, gender transitions and drag queens.
Behind mostly Muslim and Christian parents caseMahmoudv. Taylor argues that the Montgomery County Board of Education is violating the free rights of movement under the First Amendment.
“The orthodox imposed by the new government on what children assume to think about gender and sexuality is not a constitutional basis for putting their children’s parents aside,” parents, supported by the Beckett Fund for Religious Freedom, wrote to them. petition.
Books elementary school teachers read to their students include “Pride Puppy.” This involves asking students to look for images of items such as “underwear” or “controversial LGBTQ activists and sex workers.”
The school board initially allowed parents to oust their children from the program, but later changed their decision and refused to even provide parental notices.
That’s what opt-out is like Available For Sexed Ed’s class required at high school, yet district Negation Parents’ petitions say they are opting out of the “LGBTQ inclusive” storybooks needed for elementary school students in just 2022. My parents sued in May 2023.
“We have a long tradition in our country that respects the right of parents to decide when and how to introduce such sensitive topics to our children. And we are confident that the courts will support lasting freedom here.” statement.
WASHINGTON, DC – September 28: The guardian or law created by sculptor James Earl Fraser is on the side of the US Supreme Court on September 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Al Drago/Getty Images)
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Found 2-1 Last year, parents’ rights to free movement were not borne by the school board not being forced to “change their religious beliefs and behaviors.”
“[S]Listening to other views does not necessarily pressure us to act in a way that is different from what our religious beliefs require,” the court retained.
The Supreme Court agreed to file a lawsuit in January. (Related: Exclusive: Blue State Schools facing Trump’s Management Survey helped hundreds of children change gender last year)
district Make a claim “There is no evidence that a parent or child was punished for his or her religious beliefs, and was asked to confirm opinions that are contrary to his or her beliefs, or prohibited or prevented from engaging in religious practices.”
Trump administration, a Easy In favor of parents, the lower court wrote that “relevant religious practices overlook that the integrity of parents are faithful beliefs.”
“The board’s policies require parents to “throw away their religious beliefs” about how to raise their children within their faith. They cannot embrace the school’s instructions regarding picture books without violating those beliefs,” they write.
Mahmoudv. Taylor is one of several religious freedom cases on the Supreme Court this term. In March, the judiciary heard a lawsuit filed by a Catholic charity and challenged the decision to deny unemployment tax exemption for religious groups in Wisconsin.
Justice does that too Consider On April 30, the Oklahoma Supreme Court found the country’s first religious charter school challenge – a violation of the First Amendment establishment provision.
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