SCOTUS seems to lean toward parents’ position in controversial storybook case

The conservative majority of the Supreme Court provided strong support for parents looking for the right to religious freedom to inform their children and penetrate them from reading materials in primary schools that they say contradict their faith.
Montgomery County withdrew the Marilia School Board of Directors of the policy of canceling the original subscription of sex and sex books, leading to a federal lawsuit.
In an oral argument in the marathon race, the judges discussed whether the parents were unfairly burdened in the exercise of their constitutional rights.
It is one of three cases of a high-level religious nature, the Supreme Court will decide this term-including disputes over tax exemptions of religious groups, and taxpayer financing for private religious rental schools-which will be discussed next week.
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Judge Sonia Sotomoor and her liberal colleagues appear to support boycott position in stories. She noted that the lower appeal court has rejected a preliminary order to temporarily re -temporarily cancel the subscription.
“They have never reached the issue of whether or not there was disruption, or the motive behind the withdrawal,” said Sotomi. “What they decided that there was no coercion here, and that there is just an exposure.
But Judge Samuel Aleo echoed the views of many of his conservative colleagues, about a return to the previous policy that he said that most schools throughout the country allow.
“What is the big deal to allow them to withdraw from this?” He asked.
Supreme Court Judge Samuel Alerto. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Alito also questioned the content of many books that were raised in the appeal that deals with gay marriage.
“I don’t think anyone can read it and say: well, this tells only that there are occasions that men marry other men.” “It has a clear moral message, and it may be a good message. It is just a message that many religious people do not agree.”
Hundreds gathered on both sides of the case outside the court, and some carry signs such as “invite parents and parents” and “all families”.
Washington province in the suburbs introduced new books with LGBTQ personalities and topics in the primary curricula in 2022, as part of the “totalitarian” initiative in the province.
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One of the books that were challenged in the calls He is “Prince & Knight”, described as a “modern fairy tale” for ages 4 to 8 years, male who falls in love after working together to fight a dragon threatening their kingdom, and later married.
Another book has been repeatedly mentioned in the court’s plenary session, “Uncle Bobby’s wedding”, about the reaction of a young girl to the plans of her favorite relative to marry a man.
The educational zone refused to allow parents to participate

Grace Morrison is one of the parents who submit a petition to the Supreme Court of the ruling that the ban on the Mariland School region to cancel the parents ’participation is unconstitutional. (BECKETY IMAGES)
The educational zone refused to allow parents to withdraw from their primary school from the reading program – in the same way that older students can give up sex instructions.
While the school council initially allowed parents to keep their children out of this curriculum, the prosecutors say that the officials quickly reflected a path, announcing in March 2023 that no exceptions will be granted and that parents will not be notified before entering books in the classes of their children. Officials pointed to the increase in absenteeism as one of the reasons for change.
“We felt as fathers that we were presenting these things to our children as if we had always, when they were ready to receive them. Especially the child with special needs, it is difficult for them to understand,” said Grace Morrison, one of the prosecutors. She and her husband, both Catholics, are now at home, their daughter, after the school rejected accommodations.
“Begin to present the ideological issues between the sexes of a child like this can be very confusing and destroyed, not to mention the belief that we are raising it,” she told Fox News Digital.
The Federal Court of Appeal in the educational zone ruled, and the conclusion of the teachers did not prove any pressure on children to abandon their religious beliefs, and “simply hearing about other opinions does not necessarily exert pressure on belief or behavior differently, which requires religious belief.”
State officials told courts that parents who choose to send their children to public schools are not simply “Ekharan” by exposure to the semester there to the ideas attached religiously.
The practical feasibility of the policy of canceling the participation in the plenary session of the Supreme Court was.
Judge Elena Kagan said: “Once we clarify such a base, it will be like, choose everyone,” said Judge Elena Kagan.
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But Kagan raised concerns about the exposure of young children to some books presented in Montgomery Province.
“I also, I was shocked by these young children, pictorial books, and on matters related to sex. I think there are many uncommon parents who were not all happy with this.”
Judge Brett Cavano, who indicated that he grew up in the province of the wealthy and is still living there with his wife and daughter at the age of school, said that he was “inappropriate” in the reason for canceling the boycott policy of canceling the original subscription.
Some of the bench have raised concerns about a comprehensive “selective” discretionary authority that parents must object to what is happening in schools.
“What about a transformed student in the class?” Judge Kitanji Brown Jackson said. “There is a student in the classroom. Should the teacher notify the parents of the student’s presence and give them the cancellation of the subscription to be in the same class with this child?”
Dozens of summaries were presented by the call groups on both sides of the case, including the competing alliances of the states and legislators.

Participating judge Kitanji Brown Jackson stands where she and members of the Supreme Court are a new collective image after its addition, in the Supreme Court building in Washington, October 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Many teachers say that they should be granted respect for the development of lessons that reflect society as a whole, and that moving into a flood of individual religious rights will make the classroom teaching and cooperation very problematic.
The rights of religious fathers and groups should not be forced to participate in reading activities that undermine the teachings of their families and spirit. The Beckett Religious Freedom Fund, which represents the parents who filed a lawsuit for the school’s policy, has launched “the instructions concluded”.
The Trump administration supports parents, saying in a written summary that the policy of non -cancellation of the Council [religious] Beliefs regardless of whether their children feel pressure or coercion from education. ”
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The case is Mahmoud against Taylor (24-297). The ruling is expected to be before the summer vacation to the court in late June.
Christine Parks and Jessica Sonkin contributed to this report.
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2025-04-22 19:26:00