The majority of the United States Conservative Court agreed on Friday, June 27, the parents of students who affirm, in the name of religious freedom on Friday, June 27, to be able to withdraw their elegant children when the books that address the LGBT+ themes are used there.
By six votes against three, those of the six conservative judges against those of the three progressive magistrates, the greatest jurisdiction of the United States considers that depriving students’ parents about the possibility of not exposing their children to LGBT+ issues in progress is “an unconstitutional attack” to their freedom of worship and “substantially interfere with the religious development of children.”
“It was a great victory for parents” who had “lost control of schools and their children,” said the president of the United States, Donald Trump, during a press conference at the White House.
Books against prejudices introduced into certain courses
At the origin of the case, the parents of the students of the public schools in Maryland, near Washington, disputed the introduction in 2022 in the course of the nursery and the primary schools of children’s books destined to combat the prejudices of homosexuality or gender identity.
The school authorities, after initially planned to notify families that allow them to request that their children receive lessons when these books were used, they have canceled this option.
The parents of Muslim or Christian faith confiscated justice invoking religious freedom, guaranteed by the first amendment to the American Constitution.
Works that “impose a set of values,” according to a judge
“These books impose on children a set of hostile values and beliefs on the religious beliefs of their parents” and “exert (about them) psychological pressure to fulfill these specific views,” he writes on behalf of the majority, the conservative judge Samuel Alito, citing the example of the works that deal with the marriage of same -sex people.
“Books are undoubtedly normative. They are designed to present certain values and beliefs as things to promote, and others, against, such as things to condemn”, and this with “impressive young children,” he continues.
“For many believers, few religious acts are more important than the religious education of their children,” observes the judge of Alito.
“Familiar with our multicultural society,” according to another judge
In her opinion on disagreement, progressive judge Sonia Sotomayor argues that public schools “offer children of any confession and origin (…) the opportunity to become familiar with our multicultural society.”
“This essential experience in the civic vitality of our nation (…) will be a simple memory if children are deprived of any exposure to ideas and concepts that can conflict with the religious beliefs of their parents,” he worries.
“This decision runs the risk of causing damage to public schools, hindering the fundamental decisions about their school programs and compromising their ability to prepare for students to live in our pluralistic society,” said Daniel Mach, a legal specialist in the organization of defense of the ACLU of US civil liberties, taking into account that he could lead to reopening, for example, the question of teaching the theory of evolution.
On the contrary, the circle of the Heritage Foundation of Ultra-Conservator reflection greets “a resounding victory for US parents, affirming their fundamental right to carry out the moral and religious education of their children.”
Source: BFM TV
