Politics
NEW: Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Victory For Parents Against Woke Schools
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday that schools must allow parents the opportunity to opt their children out of lessons centered around LGBTQ topics, based on religious grounds. Experts on religious freedom are proclaiming this to be a massive victory for families dedicated to following the principles of their faith.
Justices sided with parents in Maryland who were protesting being left with no options to protect their children from questionable content found in six storybooks being read to them in school.
According to The Guardian, the ruling means that the Montgomery County Board of Education, which includes some schools in the wealthiest parts of our nation’s capital, must now provide opt-out facilities. The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, features three sets of parents, one Muslim, the other two Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian, respectively.
The parents argued that the board’s policy forced their kids to hear stories that they say pushed “political ideologies about family life and human sexuality that are inconsistent with sound science, common sense, and the well-being of children.”
One of the books, “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” is centered around a homosexual character who is getting married to a same-sex partner. Another, “Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope,” contains a storyline focused on a transgender child.
“The parents in the case filed a complaint after education authorities decreed that parents should not expect to receive prior notice before one of the books was read out loud in class, thus enabling a child to leave the room for that period,” the article read. “The ruling was handed down after an initial hearing in April at which several of the court’s conservative justices – who form a 6-3 majority on the bench – appeared sympathetic to the plaintiffs’ case after lower courts refused to force the education authorities to change its policy.”
Rosalind Hanson, a member of Moms for Liberty, a conservative group, said to Fox News in a recent interview that she, along with a number of other parents who assisted in getting the case to the Supreme Court weren’t “trying to change the curriculum” for the parents who wanted their children to hear these lessons and read the books.
“The majority of states across the country have said you can have an opt-out for these very sensitive issues and topics, especially because of the religious component, but also because of the age appropriateness,” Hanson explained.