{"id":86064,"date":"2026-09-02T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86064"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:05:11","slug":"court-allows-parents-to-opt-their-children-out-of-school-lessons-involving-lgbtq-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/court-allows-parents-to-opt-their-children-out-of-school-lessons-involving-lgbtq-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Allows Parents To Opt Their Children Out Of School Lessons Involving LGBTQ+ Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>SCOTUSblog:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Friday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/24-297_4f14.pdf\">ruled<\/a>\u00a0that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the parents \u2013 who are Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox \u2013 that the Montgomery County school board\u2019s refusal to provide them with that option violates their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that \u201ccourts are not school boards or legislatures, and are ill-equipped to determine the \u2018necessity\u2019 of discrete aspects of a State\u2019s program of compulsory education.\u201d But he emphasized that \u201cwhat the parents seek here is not the right to micromanage the public school curriculum, but rather to have their children opt out of a particular educational requirement that burdens their well-established right \u2018to direct \u2018the religious upbringing\u2019 of their children\u2019\u201d under\u00a0\u00a0the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From SCOTUSblog: The Supreme Court on Friday\u00a0ruled\u00a0that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86065,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86064\/revisions\/86065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}