In a 6-3 decision on Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court ruled that parents can opt their young children out of sexuality and gender instruction in school based on their religious beliefs. The court’s three liberal judges dissented. This is a major win for religious freedom.
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Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the court has “long recognized the rights of parents to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children” and that forcing this type of education without notifying parents or allowing them to opt out “does interfere with the children’s religious development and imposes a burden on religious exercise.”
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that “Public schools, this Court has said, are ‘at once the symbol of our democracy and the most
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