The Supreme Court has sided with Maryland parents who wanted to have their children removed from the classroom during lessons using LGBT storybooks.
In the 6-3 ruling Friday, Justice Samuel Alito noted that the Montgomery County, Maryland, board of education in 2022 “introduced a variety of ‘LGBTQ+-inclusive’ storybooks into the elementary school curriculum. These books — and associated educational instructions provided to teachers — are designed to ‘disrupt’ children’s thinking about sexuality and gender.”
At first, the school district allowed parents to opt their children out of the teaching, but a year later decided it “could not accommodate the growing number of opt out requests without causing significant disruptions to the classroom environment.”
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Some of the books included “Prince & Knight” and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding.”
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