The school district had previously allowed opt-outs but then revoked that option, forcing children to participate without parental notice or consent.

Although the ruling appears to only apply to elementary school children, it is being celebrated by parents across the country as a big win. But how big a win is it really?

School districts pushing LGBTQ storybooks on young children has been a problem since at least 2005, when the David Parker case (in Massachusetts) made national headlines. As we reported at the time, Parker was arrested and briefly jailed when he protested his six-year-old son being read a "gay marriage" book in kindergarten. He sued the school district in Federal District Court and the Appeals Court using the same First Amendment argument—and lost. However, SCOTUS would not take the case.

Leftist groups immediately work to subvert Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling
Within days of that ruling, the powerful leftist organizations that support the radical agendas in our schools got to work to exploit any possible loophole in the text to subvert it, and find ways for schools to continue to push the LGBTQ agenda on young children without parents' consent. The National Education Association (NEA)—the country's largest teachers' union—and various state School Committee Associations are leading the way.

National Education Association
On July 6, days after the Mahmoud ruling, the NEA approved a resolution in response. It was not meant to be seen by the public, but school choice activist Cory DeAngelis got a copy and posted it in his X account.

The NEA is pledging to "protect educators in the classroom who are teaching LGBTQ+ curriculum/content," and help them avoid any disciplinary action when they mix it into other subject areas.

The NEA also announced its plans to publish a "Know Your Rights" document about the ruling, and hold "virtual town hall" meetings to help its members safely push the LGBTQ agenda "in this new political climate."

Massachusetts Association of School Committees
The statewide school committee associations across the country, which are unfamiliar to most parents, are ostensibly run to help school committees across the state keep up with important current issues, training, and new committee member orientation. But in recent decades, most of them have become poisonous leftist advocacy groups that push and normalize virtually all the radical agendas to school committee members.

The Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) sent an email to school committees throughout the state on July 3. (It is also reprinted on their website.)

MASC didn't mince words about the Mahmoud ruling's order to allow parents to opt out. It said, "this case has been viewed as an attack on the LGBTQ+ community," and is a "direct challenge" to school districts' "responsibilities" to present this material to young children whether the parents agree or not.

In the memo, MASC recommends against adopting a universal opt-out policy. Instead, they provided a list of ways that schools could circumvent that requirement and avoid granting any opt-out requests by parents. They also offered to provide legal assistance to their "questions and concerns."

Here's what we really need to do
As good as the Mahmoud ruling is, it unfortunately just serves as a stopgap measure. It applies to elementary school students, only certain books, require opt-out (versus opt-in), and applies to parents claiming religious beliefs. Moreover, the leftist forces that are already in the schools are working overtime to find loopholes and sleazy workarounds. It will take more litigation by parents to fight those.

Moreover, bad books in elementary schools are just the tip of the iceberg. Schools from K-12 are infested with toxic propaganda and radicalism. From "gay clubs" to gender ideology, comprehensive "sex-ed," anti-Americanism, DEI, transgenderism, Marxism, pro-Hamas lessons, and more. Students are learning less actual academics, reading skills, thinking skills, etc.

In other words, whether parents like it or not, we are at war! It's a war that we must win.

Schools need to deliver what parents and taxpayers actually want and expect when they enroll their children. MassResistance is working with parent groups in school districts to:

• Completely get rid of all the radicalism and propaganda from the schools.
• Replace it with actual academics and legitimate learning.
• Remove teachers and staff members who work against that goal.

It's a big job that involves confrontation with bad leftists. If parents don't win the battle this way—completely—the assault on children's minds will never end.

This fight can definitely be won. If you want to start this battle in your district, contact us!

Half-baked measures will never work
The conservative movement is famous (or infamous) for not having the fortitude to fight this battle the way it needs to be fought. They want to testify before their school board, elect a few "good" school board members, or "inform" the community. In practice, this never succeeds. Testifying falls on deaf ears. "Good" school board members can rarely change things. Just because the public is "informed" doesn't mean that they will actually do anything effective.

It's ironic that about a month before the Mahmoud ruling came out, MassResistance was attempting to help a parents' group in Montgomery County, MD—where the Mahmoud lawsuit originated— deal with these issues in their schools. (They did not know when or how SCOTUS would rule on this.) The parents we worked with did not want to actually fight. They were afraid of the teachers' union. They wanted to try and elect good school committee members. But mostly (they told us), they wanted to inform the public about what was happening in the schools.

Final thoughts
We have a lot of problems with the "religious freedom" argument when fighting LGBTQ propaganda in the schools. What about people who don't have "sincere religious beliefs" on the LGBTQ issue but still don't want their children exposed to it? (And how does someone prove his beliefs are "sincerely held"?) Most parents we talk to simply find it to be disgusting perversion that harms children. It perpetuates behaviors that cause disease and mental health problems. This is the real argument—which parents for hundreds of years would have immediately made. But unfortunately, too many conservatives today are too cowardly to use it.

And finally, we're tired of this "opt-out" nonsense. None of this toxic material should be there at all. Contrary to the left's absurd talking points, none of it does any child any good. In particular, pornography (and most certainly LGBT pornography) is destructive to everyone, especially children. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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