Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Books Bans in Schools Are OK
Pakes the prohibitions of the book.
The Supreme Court slowed down on Friday with a group of Maryland parents Mahmoud c. TaylorDecision 6–3 To allow them to withdraw their children from the teaching which involves LGBTQ +themes.
In 2022, the Montgomery County School Board approved the use of tales on the LGBTQ + theme for primary school children, including a book in which a child goes to the homosexual marriage of his uncle and a book where a puppy is lost in a pride parade. At the node of the case of Friday, a decision taken the following year by the School Board of the county of Montgomery preventing parents from withdrawing their children from the courses.
The complainants, who included a Muslim couple, two Roman Catholics and an Ukrainian Orthodox individual, argued that the program raped their religious freedoms under the first amendment and had brought them out of their right to teach sex and sexuality to their children under their own belief systems.
The majority of judges considered the problem as relatively simple, wondering if there would be at all if the parents were authorized to remove their children from the texts.
In a 135 -page opinionJudge Samuel Alito stressed that “the introduction by the Council of Books of Tales” LGBTQ + Inincivus “, as well as its decision to retain withdrawals, impose an unconstitutional burden on the rights of parents on the free exercise of their religion.”
“We have been recognized for a long time,” wrote Alito, “the rights of parents to direct” religious education “of their children. And we have judged that these rights are violated by government policies which interfere considerably with the religious development of children. ”
But not everyone was aligned.
“Today’s decision threatens the very essence of public education,” said judge Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissident opinion, repressing the court’s decision to constitutionalize a parent’s right of veto on decisions has historically left local administrators. “The reverberations of the court error will be felt, I fear, for generations.”
The decision arrives at a particularly volatile moment for the LGBTQ +community, as conservatives Target On transgender athletes and fear on access to the bathroom, while being prohibitions overvoltage across the country. The decision and scam of LGBTQ + freedoms are also presented on the heels of another decision of the Supreme Court.
Last week, the highest judicial system of the country ruled on the ideological lines US c. Skrmetti That states can prohibit minors from receiving gender care, such as hormonal treatments and puberty blockers – ironically, denying parents the right to choose that Alito was advanced in Friday’s decision.
