The Supreme Court will soon hear a decisive case for parents’ rights to opt their children out of explicit sexual content at school.
Justices are set to hear arguments on April 22 in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case in which Maryland parents are challenging their school district’s removal of parental notice and opt-outs for explicit LGBT content. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is representing Muslim, Christian, and Jewish parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, in court.
“Despite faith differences, these parents believe the new storybooks are age-inappropriate, spiritually and emotionally damaging for their kids, and inconsistent with their beliefs,” reads a press release from Becket.
The Montgomery County Board of Education introduced “LGBTQ-inclusive” storybooks for young children in November 2022, with the radical aim of filtering books by whether they “‘reinforced or disrupted’…
