LGBTQ opt-out case before the Supreme Court a ‘cultural zeitgeist’, expert says

Many Supreme Court judges have indicated on Tuesday’s sympathy with parents who seek to choose their children from the classrooms titled LGBTQ. An education expert said that the case could lead to a ruling that expands parental rights in public schools at the country.

“This seems greatly promising to parental subcontinents in this case,” said Sarah Parcel Perry, Vice President and her legal colleague at the People’s Follow -up, which defends education. “I heard a lot of the very aggressive interrogation of the three liberal judges, but regardless of how to cut these apples, this seems to be a very clear violation of the first modification, as it is practiced through the fourteenth amendment to directing the child’s religious education.”

Perry previously worked as a major lawyer at the Minister of Civil Rights Assistant at the US Department of Education from 2020 to 2021, where the Civil Rights Office (OCR) formulated to congress.

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“They are very flexible,” Perry said of children between the ages of 4 and 5 in the case. “They are a lot through their environment, with what they are exposed to, and they do not have a meaningful agency to be able to cancel the subscription, objection or retreat. Therefore, these individuals learn their family values ​​while exposure to the materials that are, such as justice [Amy Coney] Barrett and justice [Neil] The designer, the designer, indicated to influence their thinking.

In Mahmoud’s heart against TayoP It is a lawsuit filed by religious fathers – Muslims, Roman Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox – which argues that the educational region policy violates the first amendment rights by forcing their children to communicate with the instructions that contradict their faith.

The fourth department court, a federal appeal court last year, ruled that there was no violation of religious exercise rights, saying that politics did not force parents to change their religious beliefs or that parents still teach their children abroad From school.

Many conservative judges, including Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alto, seemed sympathetic to parents’ concerns during the oral discussion for two and a half hours. Alto asked about the moral messages transmitted by books such as “Uncle Bobby’s wedding”, indicating that this content may conflict with deep religious beliefs. Judge Brett Cavano also pressed the lawyer for the educational boycott about the reason for the inability to extend the rulings of the cancellation of the subscription, similar to those in sexual education, to include these short books.

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Scotos appears to prefer straight women in the case of discrimination. (Istock)

Meanwhile, the liberal judges argued that merely exposure to these books may not constitute coercion or violation of religious freedoms. The educational region has claimed that policy enhances inclusiveness and exposure to LGBTQ views is not equal to the changes of forced beliefs.

“I think it was somewhat predictable,” Perry said about the liberal arguments of the judges. “They are trying to prove that there will be a lot of burden on the educational zone to allow these children to withdraw because the consequences, for example, may be disastrous for a public school’s ability to manage its own affairs.”

“The reason we see such an issue in the Supreme Court is that these cases are directly related to religious freedom and are directly related to the very early cognitive stages of development for minor children.” “It is very clear … the court must be treated seriously, and the burden of religious freedom within public education must be given seriously and respect must be given to religious parents if the burden is very clear.”

“I think in this case, it’s really completely clear,” she added.

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Among the books of stories in the middle of the case “Prince & Knight”, a recent fairy story targeting children between the ages of 4 and 8, which tells the story of two men in love after joining a dragon defeat and married later. Another book was referred to frequently during the oral arguments is the “Uncle Bobby’s wedding”, which follows a little girl who addresses her uncle’s favorite decision to marry another man.

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“Given that the rights of parents have become a kind of cultural age of what we are on this day and the political age, I think we are sure to see more litigation, not less, and more decline,” Perry said.

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case by late June.