The court ruled against a Maryland school district.
By Catholics for Catholics
In another victory for conservative parents’ rights, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that schools transgress the religious liberty of parents when they prohibit them from taking out their children from classrooms that teach from LGBT themed books.
According to The Daily Wire, Supreme Court justices voted 6-3 along sociopolitical lines to back a group of religious parents associated with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, who argued they should be able to opt their children out of lessons with LGBT themes.
The divisive LGBT books included “Prince and Knight” about a prince who falls in love with a knight instead of a princess and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” about a girl’s uncle who marries another man.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion, writing that the school district incumbered the parents’ First Amendment rights.
“Today, we hold that the parents have shown that they are entitled to a preliminary injunction. 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,” Alito wrote.
The “storybooks unmistakably convey a particular viewpoint about same-sex marriage and gender” and the school board has “specifically encouraged teachers to reinforce this viewpoint and to reprimand any children who disagree. That goes far beyond mere ‘exposure,’” Alito wrote.
Writing the dissent article was Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was joined by the other two progressive justices in which she disapproved of the court permitting “parental veto power over curricular choices long left to the democratic process and local administrators.”
“The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations,” Sotomayor wrote.
One of the plaintiffs in the case, said she is “thrilled” with the decision. “I am thrilled with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold religious liberty and parental rights against our authoritarian school district pushing a one-sided agenda,” Rosalind Hanson told The Daily Wire.
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