Supreme Court Signals Support for Parents Fighting to Opt Children Out of LGBT School Lessons

Doug Mainwaring : Apr 23, 2025
LifeSiteNews.com

Even left-wing Justice Elena Kagan seemed to side with parents against the Montgomery County, Maryland, school board's opt-out ban forcing young kids to be exposed to extreme LGBT material.

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The US Supreme Court [on Tuesday], appeared to be on the side of a diverse group of parents in what promises to be a landmark case concerning parents' rights to opt their children out of pro-LGBT school instruction aimed at students as young as three years old and that promotes a one-sided, left-wing ideology on gender and sexuality. (Screengrab image: via C-SPAN)

"In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Montgomery County, Maryland Board of Education took away parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate gender transitioning, pride parades, and pronoun preferences with kids as young as three and four," explains a statement from the Becket Fund, the attorney group representing a coalition of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish parents.

The books in question were not even intended for use in human sexuality classes but as an integral part of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) English and Language Arts classes.

Even left-leaning Justice Elena Kagan seemed to side with the parents against the MCPS's drastic opt-out ban forcing young children to be exposed to extreme LGBT and "gender identity" material that not only many religious but also non-religious parents would likely object to.

Kagan said she, too, was struck by the "young kids' picture books" and, "on matters concerning sexuality, I suspect there are a lot of non-religious parents who weren't all that thrilled about this. And then you, … add in religion and that's, you know, even more serious."

Fox News' justice correspondent, David Spunt, standing in front of the Supreme Court building said, "It looks like the justices will rule in favor of these parents."

"This is not education, this is indoctrination," said Billy Moges, a Montgomery County parent who serves as director of Kids First, in a Fox News interview immediately following today's hearing... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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