The Supreme Court in A 6-3 decision In the ideological point of view, on Friday in favor of the parents in Montgomery County, Md., They tried to decide their children of lessons who apply books with LGBTQ topics.
There is another victory to supporters of religious rights that have regularly received the conservative majority of the High Court in a number of top -class cases.
Judge Samuel Alito, who wrote for the six judges appointed for the six judges, probably found the lack of an opt-out option essentially the constitutional law of the parents to freely exercise their religion.
The decision returns the case to a lower court to receive a final decision as to whether the district has to make an opt-out available. In the meantime, Alito said that the school district must notify the parents in advance and enable them to remove their children from class.
“In the absence of an injunction, the parents will continue to be decided: either risk the burden of your child from stressful lessons or pay essential sums for alternative educational services. As we have explained, the choice of parents of the parents is unconstitutional,” Alito wrote.
The three democratically appointed judges of the court were opposed.
“The result will be chaos for the public schools of this nation,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor, together with the Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“The requirement to cause the schools to give a preliminary notice and the opportunity to avert any teaching plan or at any time of the history that could imply the religious beliefs of a parent, the schools will impose impossible administrative stress on,” continued Sotomayor. “The damage is not only worn by educators: children will also suffer. Interruptions and absences in the classroom can cause long -lasting damage to the learning and development of the students.”
Montgomery County is located directly opposite the Washington border, DC and operates one of the country’s largest and most diverse public school systems.
In autumn 2022, the district began the introduction of books with gays and transgender characters in the language art curriculum in primary schools. First of all, the county allowed opt-outs before moving up the option as a flood of parents to do so for religious reasons.
A coalition that includes an organization that was founded to combat politics and a group of Muslim, Roman Catholic and Ukrainian orthodox parents.
The parents appealed to the Supreme Court after a federal district judge rejected his offer to request an option and the 4th Court of Appeal of the US cycle confirmed the appeal in a 2-1 vote.
The parents were represented by the Becket Fund for religious freedom, What brings regularly Religious cases Before the High Court.
They were supported by the Trump administration, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the past few days and other religious groups, more than five dozen republican members of the congress, 26 Republican prosecutors and various conservative legal groups.
Montgomery County was supported by another coalition of religious groups, democratic general prosecutor from Washington, DC, and 18 countries, the American Civil Liberties Union and the LGBTQ interest representation.
The case is one of several at the Supreme Court in this term that implies religious rights.
The Court rose 4: 4 to create the nation’s first publicly financed religious school and intact a lower judgment that blocks the contract of the Oklahoma School.
And the judges who ruled unanimously have to extend a religious tax exemption to the Catholic charity and reject the state’s argument that the office did not qualify for the carve-out, since its operations were not primarily religious.
