THERE’S money to be made over homophobia and transphobia . This became clear this week after the US Supreme Court sided with religious parents who threw a fit over the inclusion of two books — “Pride Puppy!” and “My Rainbow” — in the curriculum of the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland.
Religion News Service reports that the payout came after the Montgomery County Board of Education was sued by Muslims Tamer Mahmoud and Enas Barakat; Jeff and Svitlana Roman, who are respectively Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox, and Catholics Melissa and Chris Park.
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The parents filed the suit in May 2023 after the school system introduced a pre-K through fifth grade English/language arts curriculum in 2022 with some LGBTQ themes and removed the option for parents to opt students out of the lessons. The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material promoted a particular ideology.
The settlement ought to signal public schools that parents should have “the final say” on their children’s education, wrote Eric Baxter, above, the plaintiffs’ attorney and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. This lunatic outfit exists to “protect the free expression of all faiths.”
The numpty said:
Running roughshod over parental rights and religious freedom isn’t just illegal — it’s costly. Their [the plaintiffs’] victory reshaped the law and ensured that generations of religious parents will be able to guide their children’s upbringing according to their faith.
The school system initially allowed parents to opt children out of the lessons discussing the material before changing its policy in March 2023, arguing it wasn’t “feasible or consistent with its curricular goals to accommodate requests for students to be excused from classroom instruction using the LGBTQ-Inclusive books,” according to a motion opposing the preliminary injunction sought by the parents.
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