Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I thought this may come up in one of our

episodes, but it is not. So let me just jam it in here. Why were we thinking? Oh, it was the

Supreme Court case. There was a Supreme Court case heard on Tuesday about LGBTQ books that were

mandated in a Maryland County school district. And at first,

the school board said, you can opt out. It was pre-K through fifth grade. And you can opt out

of this. So many parents opted out that instead of the school saying, oh, wow, I guess we shouldn't

mandate these books clearly. They said, all right, fine, no one can opt out anymore. We're going to give you no notice and you're not allowed to opt out. What? So it made it all the way up to the Supreme Court and it seems like the justices are on the side of the parents. But the two previous court decisions were against the parents in favor of the school. So one of the books is called Pride Puppy.

And it's for the pre-K, so three, four-year-olds.

And it's, you know, I is for intersectional justice and all this stuff.

And it's about a puppy that gets lost to the pride parade.

So just to make the point of how far we've fallen, I bought this book the other day

by Eric Sloan. I just bought, actually bought all the books by Eric Sloan. And I haven't read

enough of them yet to fully praise them, but they've been great so far. I'm reading this one called

American Barnes and Covered Bridges. And it's just about

wood. It's about wood and our founding fathers and before that and their love of wood and their

use of wood and their infatuation with wood. And it's awesome. It's super fun so far. Anyway, so I was

just thumbing through the pages and I haven't gotten to this page yet.

I don't even know why he put this in here.

But this is one of those ABC books.

You know, like today it's A is for Apple, B is for banana, C's for cat, right?

Well, I guess really today it's, you know, G is for what, I don't want to say it on this pocket, but you know, it's like horribly inappropriate

stuff.

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