SCOTUS: Parents can pull kids from school lessons that include LGBT

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks.

The justices reversed lower-court rulings in favor of the Montgomery County school system in suburban Washington. The high court ruled that the schools likely could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections to the material.

The decision was not a final ruling in the case, but the justices strongly suggested that the parents will win in the end.

The court ruled that policies like the one at issue in the case are subjected to the strictest level of review, nearly always dooming them.

The school district introduced the storybooks, including “Prince & Knight” and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” in 2022 as part of an effort to better reflect the district’s diversity. In “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” a niece worries that her uncle won’t have as much time for her after he gets married to another man.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-religion-maryland-schools-c0b0fb4b96531636fcb98b08aabc3cf9?taid=685eb153c9d3720001821c80&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

[PartySick 172,545]

This is no different from pulling kids out of school due to desegregation

[REALITY 80,166]

We're regressing so much, it's exhausting

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Happy Pride 🌈

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When people tell me they agree with stuff like this, I think I have a good response:

When children find out about the existence of gay people, their minds don't fill up with images of gay sex.  That's a "you" problem".  You're either gay or a pervert.  I'm not joking.  

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20 minutes ago, PartySick said:

This is no different from pulling kids out of school due to desegregation

I mean, SCOTUS decided that was okay and took 58 years to go "oh no actually". 
It's not like SCOTUS has a history of getting things right. 

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Shielding your kids from the reality that gay people exist isn’t gonna do them any favors in life. 

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3 minutes ago, badmonsterkid said:

Shielding your kids from the reality that gay people exist isn’t gonna do them any favors in life. 

But that’s exactly what they want, the purpose is to make us strangers for them. 

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F*ck out my way when you see me

Im rolling with the LGBT

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48 minutes ago, REALITY said:

We're regressing so much, it's exhausting

Hmmm I’m not sure it’s really regression in the larger sense.  I can’t imagine this even being a topic of discussion when I was in school in the 90’s.  Maybe resistance to a quickly changing society perhaps? 

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Remember when nazis burned all the Jewish books? This screams of that. 

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1 hour ago, REALITY said:

We're regressing so much, it's exhausting

 

59 minutes ago, MACATL said:

Hmmm I’m not sure it’s really regression in the larger sense.  I can’t imagine this even being a topic of discussion when I was in school in the 90’s.  Maybe resistance to a quickly changing society perhaps? 

I don't think this is a societal change at all. If anything, more people than ever support the LGBTQ community and equal rights.

No, what we're seeing is, imo, a pushback by the powerful. And it's not even a direct attack. It's just a distraction.

Lawmakers and the people that bought them are trying to start/continue a culture war among the rest of us so we're so busy fighting for our lives and rights or fighting each other that we don't see things like Republicans slashing entitlement and welfare programs and funneling all the "money saved" up to the richest people alive or the executive branch abusing power that it doesn't have.

Can't talk about welfare when you're worried about being abducted by ICE 'cause your skin is brown or you're worried you'll be branded a pedophile for being noticably gay in the vicinity of a child.

We're scapegoats. The victims of a sociopathic distraction campaign.

It'd be different if they hated us, we'd have a clear fight to fight. But they simply don't care about us.

[MACATL 2,128]

Definitely a lot truth in that for sure.  But there is cultural pushback at the micro level as well from the religious right.  Yes - support for equal rights is better now than ever before, BUT now steps are being taken to put it in schools for children - that’s a whole issue, and brand new.  

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Ugh and now new generations of kids will be validated in learning their parents homophobia. Why America why.

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23 minutes ago, PartySick said:

 

I don't think this is a societal change at all. If anything, more people than ever support the LGBTQ community and equal rights.

No, what we're seeing is, imo, a pushback by the powerful. And it's not even a direct attack. It's just a distraction.

Lawmakers and the people that bought them are trying to start/continue a culture war among the rest of us so we're so busy fighting for our lives and rights or fighting each other that we don't see things like Republicans slashing entitlement and welfare programs and funneling all the "money saved" up to the richest people alive or the executive branch abusing power that it doesn't have.

Can't talk about welfare when you're worried about being abducted by ICE 'cause your skin is brown or you're worried you'll be branded a pedophile for being noticably gay in the vicinity of a child.

We're scapegoats. The victims of a sociopathic distraction campaign.

It'd be different if they hated us, we'd have a clear fight to fight. But they simply don't care about us.

No, support for the LGBTQ community and rights have been decreasing.