Absolutely no one won at the U.S. Supreme Court this term more than America’s parents and children.
Parents, not public schools, can direct the upbringing of their children especially in religious matters, the high court ruled Friday in Mahmoud v. Taylor.
The case is an ongoing tug-of-war between parents and Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools over whether the district can expose the youngest of children to LGBT books touting alternative sexual lifestyles without the parents’ consent.
The high court said in unequivocal terms that schools cannot do so.
“We have long recognized the rights of parents to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court’s 6-3 majority. “And this is not merely a right to teach religion in the confines of one’s own home. Rather, it extends to the choices that parents wish to make for their children outside the home.”
The ruling is a de facto parents’ bill of rights.
Common sense would dictate this outcome, if the Constitution did not. Americans cannot truly be considered to be free citizens if their government decides what their children can and cannot be exposed to at the earliest of ages.
While the district initially allowed parents to opt their children out of its sexual indoctrination, it decided to stop allowing that because so many parents were opting out – creating what it said was a burden on the district.
This is where common sense yielded to dictatorial government thinking: The district stopped allowing the opt-outs, rather than considering the possibility that its sexualization of young children was actually the problem.
Here we have a fundamental, historic fork in the road: Do kids belong to parents or governments?
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates made it clear where she stands in a speech on Monday.
“‘CTU thinks your children are its children,’” she snidely mocked critics of saying – brazenly adding, “Yes, we do. We do. We do.”
This is blatant Bolshevism. Thank heaven above the U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with her Friday.
Powerful parental rights nonprofit Moms for Liberty immediately heralded the court’s landmark decision.
“The Supreme Court just sided with parents over the authoritarian schools in Maryland that sought to FORCE elementary school children into explicit, sexual education against the will of their parents,” CEO and Co-Founder TinaDescovich said in a release.
“I’m so proud of Moms for Liberty’s own Rosalind Hanson who was a petitioner in Mahmoud v. Taylor and fought tirelessly for the right to raise our children as we parents see fit. We do not co-parent with the Government – and we are winning!”
And so are America’s parents and children.
