(American Family News) After a federal court agreed elementary-age school children must sit for story time about homosexual parades and transgender pronouns, Maryland parents are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will disagree and uphold their parental rights.
The issue the high court is being asked to consider, an opt-out policy for students, comes from Montgomery County, the state’s largest county, which includes 160,500 K-12 children in Montgomery County Public Schools.
The multi-parent lawsuit, Mahmoud v. Taylor, lost on appeal in May. On behalf of the parents, attorneys at Becket Law have appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. Becket filed its Petition for Certiorari Sept. 12 and will learn this fall if the high court will hear it.
In 2022, the school board approved 20-plus LGBT-themed books for the English language arts curriculum in an effort to promote diversity, equity, and nondiscrimination in grades K-5. (Read More)
