A coalition of Muslim and Christian parents vowed to appeal a Thursday court ruling that denied their request for the restoration of a parental opt-out option for LGBT storybooks in a Maryland school district.
The group of parents had sued Montgomery County Public Schools earlier this year after the school district stopped notifying parents of a series of LGBT-themed storybooks in classroom instruction and forbade parents from opting out of it, a change from previous district policy. The parents alleged that the lack of an opt-out option forced them to violate their religious beliefs by allowing their children to be exposed to material that did not conform to their religious practices.
In a footnote, Boardman noted that one of the plaintiffs has a child with a learning disability and is incapable of differentiating between the instruction of the teacher and any rebuttal attempt by the parents. Nevertheless, the judge ruled this did not violate the family's religious exercise rights.
The coalition is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which vowed to appeal the ruling in a statement.
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