Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 55 other amici in fighting for the fundamental right of all parents to protect their children from being exposed to sexually explicit material in schools. In Montgomery County, Maryland, the School Board introduced more than 20 pro-LGBT books to the English curriculum for elementary school students. While state law gives parents a right to be notified and opt their children out of sex education materials they find objectionable, there is no equivalent law protecting parents against indoctrination in the English curriculum. Along with the books, teachers were instructed to answer student questions with canned responses including that telling elementary school students that “When we’re born, people make a guess about our gender,” that “Our body parts do not decide our gender,” and that “When someone tells us what our gender is, we believe them.” A religiously diverse group of parents thus sued to protect their children from being exposed to such pernicious lies.
AAF filed an amicus brief supporting these parents for the second time, now at the Supreme Court, asking the Court to take up the case and protect the fundamental right of parents around the country to direct the upbringing of their children.
“Parents send their children to school expecting them to learn. They do not send them to school to be indoctrinated into novel ideologies,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “For decades, in the death grip of the teachers unions, public schools have repeatedly failed to teach our children reading and math at grade level. Now, schools are junking up curricula with ideologies that reject basic reality. The brave parents in this case are rightly standing up and fighting back.”
Read the full brief here.
