Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court decided on Friday that parents of Maryland can draw their children with LGBTQ story books from public school hours with religious objections.
With the six conservative judges in the majority, the court opened the decisions of the lower square in favor of the school system of Montgomery County in suburb of Washington. The High Court decided that the schools could probably not request primary school children to employ lessons with the books if the parents expressed religious objections to the material.
The lack of an “opt-out”, Justicer Samuel Alito, wrote for the Court of Justice: “A constitutional burden on the rights of parents puts on the freedom of their religion.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in Dissent for the three liberal judges that exposure to various views in a multicultural society is a critical feature of public schools. “Nevertheless, it will be a mere memory if children have to be isolated from exposure to ideas and concepts that are conflicting with their parents’ religious beliefs,” wrote Sotomayor. “Today’s governing heralds in this new reality.”
In this case, the decision was not a final decision, but the judges emphasized that the parents will win in the end. The court decided that guidelines such as the guidelines of the strictest review level in the case are exposed to the case, which they almost always do to fail.
The school district presented the storybooks, including “Prince & Knight” and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” in 2022 to better reflect the diversity of the district. In “Uncle Bobby’s wedding”, a niece fears that her uncle doesn’t have so much time for her after having married another man.
The judges have repeatedly supported claims for religious discrimination in recent years, and the case is one of the cases of religious legal rights in court during this term. The decision is also made in the middle of the escalate in recent years in books that are banished by public school and public libraries.
Many of the distances were organized by Moms for Liberty and other conservative organizations that are committed to more parental contributions about which books are available to the students. Shortly after President Donald Trump, a Republican, took office in January, the educational department described the book as “joke” and dismissed 11 symptoms that were submitted to Trump’s predecessor, President Joe Biden, a democrat.
In a court report in the case of Maryland, the Pen America author group said that the objections against the objections wanted “a constitutionally suspicious book ban with a different name”. Pen America reported that more than 10,000 books were prohibited in the last school year.
“By pulling their children out of their classrooms when they apply against certain content, the judges put the basis for a new border in attack on books of all kinds in schools,” said Elly Brinkley, lawyer for the Us Free Expression programs of the U.S. “In practice, opt -outs for religious objections will relax what is taught in schools and initiate closer orthodoxy in order to insult the fear of insulting an ideology or sensitivity.”
The lawyer Eric Baxter, who represented the parents in Maryland at the Supreme Court, said the decision was a “historical victory for parental rights”.
“Children should not be forced to talk about Drag Queens, Pride parades or gender transitions without the permission of their parents,” said Baxter.
The parents were allowed to decide their children for religious and other reasons, but the school authority reversed the course a year later, which demanded protests and finally a lawsuit.
In the event of arguments in April, a lawyer of the school district informed the judges that the “opt -outs” had become disturbing. Sex education is the only teaching area in the schools of Montgomery, of which the students can be excused, said lawyer Alan Schönfeld.
The case hit unusually near home when three judges live in the county, although they did not send their children to public schools.
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