by Dean Bowen, America Outloud:
In a stunning blow to those who wish to indoctrinate our children with deviant sexual ideologies, the Supreme Court ruled that Maryland parents can, for religious reasons, opt their children out of lessons that use LGBT-themed books.
Background
In 2022, the Montgomery County School District began using in their English and language arts curriculum a series of books with LGBT themes. The curricula covered kindergarten through fifth grade.
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Parents complained profusely, so the school board agreed to allow them to opt out of the lessons. However, within the year, the school board rescinded the opt-out policy, effectively forcing children to sit in on the lessons.
The board’s rationale was that a growing number of students skipping the reading sessions disrupted the classroom. Yet, in court documents, the Board stated its decision to include the books was to reflect a changing culture.
“A growing number of students” asking to be excused from the lessons does not reflect a “changing culture.” Perhaps the Board’s true goal was to change the culture into what they wanted it to reflect.
They further complained that notifying parents of the lessons placed a strain on school resources, and admitted to their concerns that students whose parents allowed them to attend these reading sessions would face stigma from classmates who opted out.
As a result of the school board rescinding the opt-out policy, several Catholic, Muslim, and Eastern Orthodox families sued, claiming their religious and parental rights were being violated.
Parental Rights Restored
Both the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the School Board; however, the Supreme Court overturned the lower courts’ decision and affirmed that parents do indeed have the right to opt their children out of lessons that infringe upon their deeply held religious beliefs.
The ruling was 6–3, with the three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson — dissenting in favor of the School Board having more control over what children are learning than parents.
Writing the minority opinion, Justice Sonja Sotomayor stated that the majority’s ruling gives parents too much power over educators via the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
“Today’s ruling threatens the very essence of public education,” she wrote, further adding, “The Court, in effect, constitutionalizes a parental veto power over curricular choices long left to the democratic process and local administrators.”
Justice Sotomayor is continually wrong in her thinking. Parents can never have too much power over the education of their children.
Neither did the Court “constitutionalize parental veto power.” The Constitution did that all on its own. The six conservative Justices merely affirmed that right. Curricular choices were never intended for local administrators without parent input.
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