MD federal court says parents have no "fundamental right" to opt their kids out of radical gender theory curriculum

“The Hebrew word for parents is Horim, and it comes from the same root as Moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will have.” – Rabbi Kassel Abelson

No matter what anyone says, it's parents who are the ultimate role models and teachers of life for their children, even if they don't intend it to be so, but a federal court in Maryland on Thursday ruled that parents do not have the right to opt their children out of a leftist curriculum that includes books on radical gender theory.

Deborah L. Boardman, a Biden-advisor-appointed judge said that parents'  “asserted due process right to direct their children’s upbringing by opting out of a public-school curriculum that conflicts with their religious views is not a fundamental right,” Fox News reported.

Now if that isn't unconstitutional then nothing is unconstitutional. 

The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) introduced 22 new books last year into elementary-aged classrooms. These books featured lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer characters (LGBTQ) and radical gender theory topics and prohibited parents from opting their children out of the sexuality and gender instruction in March.

The indoctrination program predictably enraged numerous religious parents and others who don't want to see their children being coaxed into having their genitals cut from their tiny bodies. Becket Law in conjunction with these parents filed a lawsuit challenging the district's decision in May. Many concerned parents requested a preliminary injunction to permit them to opt out their children from the LGBTQ curriculum when school begins in a week.

The curriculum is slated to teach children from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. It includes gender mutilation procedures referred to as sex change procedures, men dressed as whorish-looking women known as drag queens, gay pride parades, and forced speech in the guise of preferred pronouns.

One of the books in question claims that doctors "guess" a baby's sex at birth, and those who believe that having to guess the sex is not crazy also believe that they follow the science.

“Today, the district court decided parents have no right to notice when extreme ideology is pushed on their elementary-age children during story hour,” Becket senior counsel Eric Baxter posted to X Thursday. “With the new school year beginning, the case is on the fast track to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals—and the parents plan to appeal the decision.”

“Children are entitled to enjoy a period of innocence and be guided by their own parents on how and when to approach the complex and sensitive issues being pushed by the School Board,” he added.

The leftist judge argued that the school district banning the opt-out policy does not infringe on parents’ religious beliefs evidently due to her belief that the schools and the government should raise our children.

“The no-opt-out policy does not pressure the parents to refrain from teaching their faiths, to engage in conduct that would violate their religious beliefs, or to change their religious beliefs. The policy may pressure them to discuss the topics raised by the storybooks with their children, but those discussions are anticipated, not prohibited, by the parents’ faiths,” Boardman said. “The parents are not pressured into violating their religious beliefs in order to obtain the benefits of a public education.”

Meanwhile, the MCPS school district has been involved in many sexual abuse cases in recent years and has been forced to pay out over a million dollars in settlements after lawsuits accusing teachers and school staff of sexually assaulting children that were supposed to be in their care.

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