对马里兰州小学的“包容性”故事书的摊牌将前往最高法院

父母有权从涵盖性别过渡,骄傲游行和同性浪漫史的指导中选择他们的孩子?在马里兰州小学的“包容性”故事书中,送达最高法院的“包容性”故事书首次出现在Next上。

来源:Education Next 博客

If you wanted to design a case to encourage the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to keep expanding its application of the Free Exercise Clause, you could hardly do better than Mahmoud v. Taylor. This case began in 2023 when the Montgomery County School Board in Maryland rescinded a policy that parents could opt their elementary school children out of instruction in the school district’s mandated “inclusive” storybooks, which introduced students as young as kindergarten to gender transition, pride parades, and same-sex romance.作为回应,包括穆斯林,犹太人和基督徒在内的1100多名宗教父母签署了请愿书,要求董事会恢复政策。 When the school board refused to relent—even though the district provided similar state-mandated opt-outs for sex-ed instruction in health classes, including in high school—the parents sued, requesting an injunction forbidding the school district from implementing the policy while the case was being litigated.父母在联邦地方法院和第四巡回赛面板之前丧生,但在一月份,最高法院同意审理此案。

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事实对学区看上去并不有希望。 When the parents asked for the opt-out to be reinstated, school board members said the parents were promoting hate and likened them to “white supremacists” and “xenophobes.” At the very least, these uncharitable comparisons indicate more than a little anti-religious animus, which the Supreme Court has repeatedly said public officials must avoid. As well, Maryland statutes require schools to “establish policies, guidelines, and/or procedures for student opt-out regarding instruction related to family life and human sexuality objectives.”

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