{"id":101930,"date":"2024-05-18T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101930"},"modified":"2024-05-18T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:48:32","slug":"101930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101930","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal Court Rules Maryland Parents Can\u2019t Opt Kids Out Of Classes With LGBT Content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 against Maryland parents who sued their local school board for not letting their children in grades K-5 opt out of\u00a0reading books supporting transgender ideology and gender transitioning.<\/p>\n

The Montgomery County Public Schools board denied the parents their request to be notified when the books would be read to their children and the opportunity to opt out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board is violating the parents\u2019 inalienable and constitutionally protected right to control the religious upbringing of their children, especially on sensitive issues concerning family life and human sexuality,\u201d The\u00a0Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, litigated the lawsuit,\u00a0stated<\/a>, explaining:<\/p>\n

In fall 2022, the Montgomery County Board of Education announced over 20 new \u201cinclusivity\u201d books for its\u00a0pre-K through eighth grade classrooms. But rather than focusing on basic civility and kindness, these books champion\u00a0pride parades,\u00a0gender transitioning, and pronoun preferences for children.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For example, one book tasks three- and four-year-olds to search for images from a word list that includes \u201cintersex flag,\u201d \u201c[drag] queen,\u201d \u201cunderwear,\u201d \u201cleather,\u201d and the name of a celebrated\u00a0LGBTQ activist and\u00a0sex worker. Another encourages fifth graders to discuss what it means to be \u201cnon-binary.\u201d\u00a0Other books\u00a0advocate a child-knows-best approach to gender transitioning, telling students that a decision to transition\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0have to \u201cmake sense\u201d\u00a0and that\u00a0doctors only \u201cguess\u201d when identifying a newborn\u2019s sex anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A district court ruled against the parents, prompting them to appeal to the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied the parents\u2019 request for a preliminary injunction but allowed the possibility of changing its position once the classes have already been taught,\u00a0writing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We take no view on whether the Parents will be able to present evidence sufficient to support any of their various theories once they have the opportunity to develop a record as to the circumstances surrounding the Board\u2019s decision and how the challenged texts are actually being used in schools. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At this early stage, however, given the Parents\u2019 broad claims, the very high burden required to obtain a preliminary injunction, and the scant record before us, we are constrained to affirm the district court\u2019s order denying a preliminary injunction.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judge Marvin Quattlebaum dissented, writing, \u201cI disagree with the majority\u2019s conclusion that the parents have not produced enough evidence to establish that their free exercised rights have been burdened. The parents have met their burden. They have produced the books that no one disputes will be used to instruct their K-5 children. They produced declarations explaining in detail why the books conflict with their religious beliefs. They have produced the board\u2019s own internal documents that show how it suggests teachers respond to students and parents who question the contents of the books.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal Court Rules Maryland Parents Can\u2019t Opt Kids Out Of Classes With LGBT Content. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 against Maryland parents who sued their local school board for not letting their children in grades K-5 opt out of\u00a0reading books supporting transgender ideology and gender transitioning. The Montgomery County Public … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35,59,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-culture","category-education-schools","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101931,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101930\/revisions\/101931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}