Supreme Court restores parental opt-outs for Pride Storybooks

We’re celebrating Independence Day with another huge win for religious freedom right after our Catholic Charities victory earlier this month.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that parents have the right to opt their children out of storybooks that push one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Montgomery County Board of Education took away parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate gender transitioning, pride parades, and pronoun preferences with kids as young as three and four. The instructions for these lessons encouraged telling children that doctors “guess” gender at birth and that gender is fluid like the weather. The parents whose children were required to be taught these stories weren’t asking that the books be removed. They were asking for notification and the ability to opt out, a right afforded them on every other subject but this one.

Becket represents a diverse coalition of religious parents, including Muslims, Christians, and Jews, who argued that parents have the right to direct the moral and religious upbringing of their children. (Watch this short video to learn more.)

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