LGBTQ rights supporters hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, as the court hears oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, April 22, 2025./Oliver Contreras/AFP/Getty
On Tuesday, a group of religious parents had their day at the Supreme Court, hoping the justices would grant them something extraordinary: the ability to pull their kids out of a classroom whenever instruction verges into territory that contradicts their religious beliefs. Based on the justices’ responses in oral arguments, those parents are very likely to win the day—and public education may never be the same.
The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, came out of Montgomery County, Maryland, where a group of Christian and Muslim parents, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Christian legal advocacy firm, are…