Court of Appeals: Maryland Parents Can’t Opt-Out K-5 Kids from Public School LGBTQ Curriculum

Montgomery Maryland Opt Out LGBTQ

A federal court of appeals just held, in a 2-1 ruling, that Maryland parents cannot opt out of required LGBTQ grade school curriculum that exposes their kids as young as kindergarten to concepts like “intersex flag,” “drag queen,” “leather,” and other topics associated with the LGBTQ community.

Fox News has the story: Parents can’t opt K-5 children out of LGBTQ curriculum: appeals court:

Maryland’s largest school district does not have to allow parents to opt their K-5 children out of classes and books that discuss LGBTQ topics like sexuality and gender, at least for now, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

The 2-1 ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision denying a preliminary injunction on the basis that the parents had not shown how the policy — initiated by the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) board — would violate their children’s First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.

The parents had argued that refusal to provide an opt-out from their children’s exposure to LGBT-themed books and related discussions violates federal and state law.

The Plaintiffs are three sets of religiously observant parents, one Muslim and two Christian, who believe that the LGBT-themed books are harmful to their kids because it interferes with their religious upbringing. And how could it not, as it exposes kindergarteners, among other things, to a book entitled “The Pride Puppy” with drawings of drag queens performing on a stage, a cart with vegetables inside with a sign labeled “queer farmers,” and “an image of a celebrated LGBTQ activist and sex worker, ‘Marsha P. Johnson.'”

Incidentally, you can read innumerable glowing life stories about Johnson, who apparently was indeed a sex worker, or what we used to call a prostitute, i.e. someone who gets paid cash money to perform various sex acts with total strangers. Apparently Johnson was born male but “enjoyed wearing clothes made for women“, and is now celebrated like some kind of Mother Theresa. See:

You get the idea.

Anyway, back to Fox News and religious parents being forced to let their kids be exposed to outrageously inappropriate material in school:

Some of the book titles include “The Pride Puppy,” “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding [if you think Uncle Bobby is marrying a woman, you’d be wrong]” and “Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope.”The parents argued that the books contradict their religious duty to train their children in accordance with their faith on “what it means to be male and female; the institution of marriage; human sexuality; and related themes….”However, the court ruled that the mere exposure to ideas contrary to one’s faith is not enough of a burden to implicate the First Amendment and that exposure to issues that one disagrees with, even for religious reasons, is “part of the compromise parents make when choosing to send their children to public schools,” the ruling states.

You can review this awful ruling, if have the stomach for it, here.

The only bright light in this dismal ruling is that it was on appeal from the denial of a motion for preliminary injunction, i.e. a motion at the very start of the case, which asks the judge to stop the government from doing something before evidence is gathered, principals are deposed, etc. This means that while the court isn’t stopping the [extremely] objectionable practices right now, it might later:

“We take no view on whether the Parents will be able to present evidence sufficient to support any of their various theories once they have the opportunity to develop a record as to the circumstances surrounding the Board’s decision and how the challenged texts are actually being used in schools,” U.S. Circuit Judge G. Steven Agee, a President George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the majority in the opinion.”At this early stage, however, given the Parents’ broad claims, the very high burden required to obtain a preliminary injunction, and the scant record before us, we are constrained to affirm the district court’s order denying a preliminary injunction.”

The other sliver of good news is that there was a dissent in the case:

U.S. Circuit Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr., who was appointed by former President Trump, dissented, writing that he disagreed with the district court motion finding the parents failed to establish that the board burdened their First Amendment rights.”The parents have shown the board’s decision to deny religious opt-outs burdened these parents’ right to exercise their religion and direct the religious upbringing of their children by putting them to the choice of either compromising their religious beliefs or foregoing a public education for their children,” Quattlebaum wrote.”I also find that the board’s actions, at least under this record, were neither neutral nor generally applicable. Finally, I find the parents have established the other requirements for a preliminary injunction. So, I would reverse the district court and enjoin the Montgomery County School Board of Education from denying religious opt-outs for instruction to K-5 children involving the texts.”

Once again we see the utterly overwhelming importance of electing President Trump to another term this fall. Over and over we have seen Trump-appointed judges saying no to the seemingly relentless advance of the leftist agenda.

The Constitution really is our last line of defense, but if judges aren’t going to uphold it, what the heck good is it?

Tell everyone you know to register to vote and to get out there and vote in November.

And while I don’t normally editorialize in my posts because I am a “just the facts, ma’am” kind of guy, I can’t tell you how much this disgusts me. Introducing kindergarteners to ANY sexualized material is the very definition of evil, but to introduce them to the concept of drag queens and that ilk is beyond evil, and you don’t have to be religious to understand that. Leave the kids alone for God sakes.

And, if you can afford to, homeschool your kids. No way in hell I’d have sent my daughter to Montgomery County public schools. No way in hell.

Tags: College Insurrection, Freedom of Religion, LGBT

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