A wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., doesn’t inherently object to shielding even older students from sexually mature material. It just doesn’t want to give the choice to parents.
Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools pulled a novel that celebrates a promiscuous gay teen sex columnist from high school libraries even as the district was arguing in court that parents cannot opt out their pre-kindergarten children from LGBTQ “storybooks” that portray sex workers, kink, drag, elementary-age romance and gender-identity transitions.
The district, backed by the ACLU and 18 Democrat-run states led by Maryland and Massachusetts, is fighting to uphold a federal judge’s refusal to impose a preliminary injunction on what MCPS calls its “blanket no-opt-out policy.”
The Muslim, Christian and Jewish parents who challenged the policy as an infringement of their parental rights and violation of state law, meanwhile, are getting support from 23 Republican-run states led by Virginia and a group of First Amendment scholars who argue the judge relied on “outdated, out-of-circuit authority that is largely irrelevant” to deny the injunction.
The plaintiffs, defendants and third parties filed…
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