{"id":53087,"date":"2025-07-08T19:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=53087"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:50","slug":"supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-parents-in-lgbt-curriculum-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-parents-in-lgbt-curriculum-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooggerechtshof oordeelt in het voordeel van ouders in geschil over lhbt-curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The U.S. Supreme Court on June 27, 2025, ruled Maryland parents can opt out of LGBT-themed lessons in public schools, upholding their right to the free exercise of their respective religions. \/ Credit: PT Hamilton\/Shutterstock<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

CNA Staff, Jun 27, 2025 \/ 12:26 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a group of Maryland parents who had sued a school district over its refusal to allow families to opt their children out of LGBT-focused lessons. <\/p>\n

In a 6-3 decision<\/a> in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the court ruled on June 27 that the parents \u2014 who included Catholics, Orthodox, and Muslims \u2014 were \u201centitled to a preliminary injunction\u201d against the Montgomery County Board of Education, one that will allow them to excuse their children from the controversial lessons while the case is remanded to lower courts for further proceedings. <\/p>\n

The parents \u201care likely to succeed on their claim that the board\u2019s policies unconstitutionally burden their religious exercise,\u201d the court said. <\/p>\n

The reading materials, the Supreme Court said \u2014 which include promotions of same-sex \u201cmarriages\u201d \u2014 are \u201cdesigned to present certain values and beliefs as things to be celebrated, and certain contrary values and beliefs as things to be rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The materials go beyond mere \u201cexposure,\u201d the justices said, and \u201cburdens the parents\u2019 right to the free exercise of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the district\u2019s policy, the school board only permitted opt-outs in narrow circumstances, mostly related to sexual education in health class. It did not permit opt-outs for coursework that <\/strong>endorsed <\/strong>the views that there are more than two \u201cgenders,\u201d that a boy can become a girl, or that homosexual marriages are moral.<\/p>\n

Some of the coursework initially introduced in the curriculum was designed to promote these concepts to children as young as 3 years old in preschool.<\/p>\n

One book involved in the dispute, called \u201cPride Puppy,\u201d taught preschool children the alphabet with a story about a homosexual pride parade, which introduced children to words like \u201cdrag queen,\u201d \u201cleather,\u201d and \u201czipper.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also introduced young children to Marsha B. Johnson, a drag queen, gay rights activist, and prostitute.<\/p>\n

Lawyers with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty represented the parents in their lawsuit. On Friday, Eric Baxter, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, called the ruling \u201ca historic victory for parental rights in Maryland and across America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKids shouldn\u2019t be forced into conversations about drag queens, pride parades, or gender transitions without their parents\u2019 permission,\u201d he said. \u201cToday, the court restored common sense and made clear that parents \u2014 not government \u2014 have the final say in how their children are raised.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit against the school district, located just north of Washington, D.C., was filed in May 2023. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court took up the controversial case in January of this year<\/a> after two lower courts ruled against a group of parents who sued the Montgomery County board over the school district\u2019s having provided LGBT-themed lessons and reading materials to their children. <\/p>\n

Both the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against the parents<\/a>, claiming they had no right to be notified or opt their kids out of the sexuality-themed literature. <\/p>\n

The school district initially allowed the parents to opt out but changed its policy less than a year later. It removed the LGBT puppy book and another book<\/a> from the program curriculum last year, though the books were still available at school libraries.<\/p>\n

During oral arguments in April, most of the justices on the high court appeared sympathetic toward the parents<\/a> in their lawsuit. <\/p>\n

In a dissent to the Friday ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor claimed the decision could usher in \u201cchaos\u201d for public schools around the country.<\/p>\n

Sotomayor suggested that the LGBT materials in the dispute represented merely \u201ca range of concepts and views\u201d and \u201cnew ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRequiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent\u2019s religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools,\u201d she alleged.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/265057\/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-parents-in-lgbt-curriculum-dispute<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof oordeelde op 27 juni 2025 dat ouders in Maryland hun kinderen kunnen laten vrijstellen van lessen met een lhbt-thema op openbare scholen, waarmee hun recht op de vrije uitoefening van hun respectievelijke religies wordt bevestigd. \/ Bron: PT Hamilton\/Shutterstock CNA-staf, 27 juni 2025 \/ 12:26 uur (CNA). Het Hooggerechtshof oordeelde vrijdag in het voordeel van een groep [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":55464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-53087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Supreme-Court-rules-in-favor-of-parents-in-LGBT-curriculum-dispute.webp?fit=800%2C534&quality=75&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72301,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/massachusetts-removes-lgbt-ideology-requirements-for-foster-care-parents\/","url_meta":{"origin":53087,"position":0},"title":"Massachusetts removes LGBT ideology requirements for foster care parents","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"februari 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"null \/ Credit: New Africa\/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 \/ 12:54 pm (CNA). 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