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Parents can now opt kids out of LGBTQ classroom material.

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Isaac Saul

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4.7817 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, the Supreme Court voted 6–3 in favor of a group of Maryland parents who had wanted to opt their elementary-aged children out of instruction that included LGBTQ+ themes. The majority agreed to grant the parents a preliminary injunction while their lawsuit proceeds in lower courts, allowing them to withhold their children from such curriculum. The court’s three liberal justices dissented.



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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Mahmoud v. Taylor, another Supreme Court ruling that has generated a lot of conversation and attention. This is the case about a group of Maryland

1:12.4

parents who want to opt their children out of instruction that included LGBTQ themes and succeeded

1:19.6

in doing so via the Supreme Court. So we're going to talk about exactly what happened. And then I'm

1:24.6

going to share some opinions from the left and the right and then my take

1:28.3

and this is an interesting one for me because I went in with some priors and my view is changed

1:33.8

after learning more reading the opinion, reading the dissent, reading much of the commentary

1:40.7

and analysis. So yeah, just an interesting take today because my prior is kind of

1:46.0

flipped after I learned more. Before we jump in to the main story, though, I want to give you a

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quick reminder and heads up that tomorrow we're going to live stream at 8 p.m. on YouTube,

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probably some other platforms like Instagram as well. An interview, sit down between me and

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Camille Foster, our new editor at large. We're going to be discussing his piece on the 2020

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