Supreme Court Sides With Religious Parents, Allows Kids to Opt Out of LGBT Instruction
Facts Matter
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of parents who were having a dispute with their local school district. Specifically, these were religious parents who wanted to make sure that their elementary-aged kids were not being exposed to LGBT storybooks.
The parents wanted to be able to opt their kids out of having to learn that material.
After several years of litigation, the parents proved successful in their case, and in the process they opened the door for the rest of the country to do the same.
Let’s go through the details together.
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| 0:00.0 | Late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a new ruling in favor of parents who were having a dispute with their local county school board. |
| 0:08.6 | Specifically, these were religious parents, mostly Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Christians, who wanted to make sure that their young kids were not being exposed to LGBTQ plus storybooks. |
| 0:20.0 | The parents wanted to be able to ob their kids out of having to learn |
| 0:22.6 | that material and they proved successful. And in that process, they opened the door for everyone |
| 0:26.9 | in the whole country to be able to do the same. Let me give you the background on this particular |
| 0:30.6 | case. Back in November of 2022, you had a Maryland school district decide to mix it up a little |
| 0:36.5 | bit in regards to what they were |
| 0:37.8 | going to teach kids in elementary school. You see, the Montgomery County Board of Education in November |
| 0:42.9 | of 2022 issued a mandate requiring school employees to find what they called LGBTQ inclusive |
| 0:50.3 | storybooks in order to promote issues like gender transitions, pride parades, as well |
| 0:57.1 | as same-sex romantic relationships among young children. |
| 1:00.5 | Specifically, according to core documents that wound up being made public, quote, |
| 1:04.9 | The Montgomery County Board of Education told employees responsible for selecting the books |
| 1:09.5 | to review options through an LGBTQ plus |
| 1:12.6 | lens and to ask whether stereotypes, cis normativity, and power hierarchies are reinforced or disrupted. |
| 1:19.6 | Then the core documents went on to give some concrete examples of the types of books that were actually selected. |
| 1:26.6 | You have titles like Pride Puppy, a picture book that tells kids what they might find at a pride parade |
| 1:32.3 | and also urges the kids to search up images of things like underwear, lip rings, leather, and drag queens. |
| 1:38.3 | You had another book called What Are Your Words, which told the story of a transgender child whose pronouns change by the day? |
| 1:46.2 | Another book called Love Violet told the story of a homosexual playground romance. |
| 1:51.7 | Another book called Born Ready told the story of a girl who identified as a boy. |
| 1:56.0 | And then another book called Jacob's Room to Choose features a teacher in the book convincing her class to support gender-free bathrooms. |
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