SCOTUS Likely To Side With Anti-LGBTQ Parents

The Washington Post reports:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to side with a group of religious parents seeking to pull their children from public school lessons with LGBTQ+-themed books — a significant expansion of the long-standing practice of allowing opt outs for reproductive health classes. The lawsuit over story time and books with titles such as “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” and “Love, Violet” is one of three major religious-rights cases on the Supreme Court docket this term.

At issue for the justices is whether public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, illegally burden the First Amendment rights of parents to freely exercise their religion when they require children to participate in discussions that touch on gender and sexuality that conflict with their faith. During more than two-and-a-half hours of argument on Tuesday, several justices read aloud from the text of the disputed storybooks, some of which referred to drag queens and same-sex marriage.

From an earlier Vox report:

The Supreme Court will hear a case that could impose a regime similar to Florida’s original Don’t Say Gay law on every public school in the country. The plaintiffs in Mahmoud v. Taylor — a group of Muslim and Christian parents — don’t specifically ask the justices to ban discussions of homosexuality or gender identity from classrooms.

Instead, they seek a right to be notified if their children are about to be taught from certain books they claim contain LGBTQ themes, as well as an opportunity to opt those children out of the lessons.

To grant this request, they want the Court to embrace a legal rule that would place such heavy obligations on teachers who discuss these topics that it is unclear whether they would practically be able to do so. Furthermore, even if public schools tried to comply with these disclosure requirements, they are so burdensome that doing so would likely be impossible.

From a January 2025 SCOTUSblog report:

The dispute over the storybooks has its roots in the county’s 2022 approval of books featuring LGBTQ characters for inclusion in its language-arts curriculum. One book used for young children, Pride Puppy, tells the story of a puppy that gets lost during an LGBTQ Pride parade.

When the county announced in 2023 that it would not allow parents to opt to have their children excused from instruction involving the storybooks, a group of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian parents went to federal court.

The parents are represented by the anti-LGBTQ Catholic hate group, the Beckett Fund For Religious Liberty, which represented Hobby Lobby in its successful bid to deny birth control to employees. The Liberty Counsel has filed a supportive brief. The hater in the final clip below works for Laura Loomer.

Dueling rallies outside the Supreme Court ahead of LGBTQ books argument:

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— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM

Do read this from Nathalie Baptiste:

The Supreme Court Is Getting Involved In The War On Books

The high court will decide whether public schools requiring students to read books with LGBTQ+ themes is a violation of their religious freedom.

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— Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral argument today about LGBTQ-inclusive picture books in public schools and a small group of parents objecting to their presence. Fact sheet on the case here.

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— GLAAD (@glaad.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM

Billy Moges, director of Kids First, joins @johnrobertsFox to discuss how The Supreme Court is weighing parent’s rights in LGBTQ+ curriculum.#AmericaReports pic.twitter.com/7TRDZ7oswF

— America Reports (@AmericaRpts) April 22, 2025

The Left’s Washington, D.C. anti-Trump “protesters” are rallying outside the Supreme Court of the United States for kindergartners to be subjected to LGBTQ propaganda. It’s amazing; the anti-Trump “protesters” are now against parental rights. Stay tuned to @LauraLoomer for more… pic.twitter.com/PB3RTf7xuE

— Charles R Downs (@TheCharlesDowns) April 22, 2025

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