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Many school districts across the nation now are adopting mandatory LGBT indoctrination programs for students.
Sometimes described as “sex education,” sometimes as “diversity,” their common factor is that they promote the LGBT ideologies to young children.
It is this very issue, when it arose in Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers banned it, that Disney lobbied for the ideology, provoking what now is a war between the state and the company that for decades had provided children’s entertainment.
Now the fight over the issue has been escalated, with a lawsuit on behalf of parents in Maryland who are charging that the Montgomery County Board of Education simply decided to violate state law and require children to endure the leftist lessons.
According to Becket, which fights in America’s courts for religious rights, it has filed a federal lawsuit against Monifa McKnight, superintendent of the board, the board itself, and members Shebra Evans, Lynn Harris, Grace Rivera-Oven, Karla Silvestre, Rebecca Smondrowski, Brenda Wolff and Julie Yang.
The legal team explained, “A group of parents filed a federal lawsuit last night against the Montgomery County Board of Education for mandating storybooks that push extreme ideology regarding gender identity and sexuality. Maryland law and the school board’s own policies require parental notice and opportunity to opt out of any instruction concerning ‘family life and human sexuality.’
“But after mandating new books that advocate pride parades, gender transitioning, and pronoun preferences for kids, the board announced it would no longer follow the law: parental notice will not be provided, and opt-outs will not be tolerated.”
Becket said it is representing Muslim and Christian parents “who simply want their kids to have alternatives to storybooks that are age-inappropriate or inconsistent with their religious beliefs and sound science.”
“Children are entitled to guidance from their own parents, who know and love them best, regarding how they’ll be introduced to complex issues concerning gender identity, transgenderism, and human sexuality,” explained said Eric Baxter, a lawyer at Becket.
