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Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents’ authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework. | Credit: The Religious Freedom Institute
By Francisco Zuniga, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 21, 2023
Francisco Zuniga is a 16-year veteran of Catholic education with experience teaching language arts at the elementary and middle school levels. Francisco has contributed news articles and commentary pieces to online publications American Briefing and Prolife Update. He holds a masters degree in philosophy from George Mason University. Francisco and his wife live in Silver Spring, Maryland with their five daughters.
On August 9, Catholic, Orthodox Christian, and Muslim parents took the school board of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland to court over its refusal to allow parents to have their children opt out of participation in an LGBTQ+ book curriculum. The curriculum relies on a policy that allows teachers to introduce, read, and discuss books about homosexuality and transgenderism in their classrooms without parents’ knowledge or consent. Represented by Becket, a nonprofit legal and educational institute dedicated to the defense of religious freedom, the plaintiffs are hoping a decision will be reached before school starts on August 28. …Related posts
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