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The majority conservative US Supreme Court has agreed to parents of students on Friday who claim. Similarly, in the name of religious freedom, to be able to withdraw their classy children when books addressing LGBT+ themes are used there.
By six votes against three. However, those of the six conservative judges against those of the three progressive magistrates, the highest jurisdiction of the United States considers that depriving parents of students of the possibility of not exposing their children to the LGBT+ themes in progress is “an unconstitutional attack” to their freedom of worship and “interfere in a substantial manner with the religious development of children”.
“It was a great victory for the parents” who had “lost control of schools. In addition, their children,” said American president Donald Trump quickly during a press conference in the White House.
At the american supreme court agrees parents origin of the case. parents of pupils of public schools in Maryland, near Washington, disputed the introduction in 2022 in the course of nursery and primary schools of children’s books aimed at fighting prejudices on homosexuality or gender identity.
School authorities. after initially planned to notify the families to allow them to request that their children be given lessons when these books were used, have canceled this option.
Parents of Muslim. Christian faith then seized justice by invoking religious freedom, guaranteed by the first amendment to the American Constitution.
“Essential experience”
“These books impose on children a set of values and beliefs hostile to the religious beliefs of their parents”. “exert (on them) psychological pressure to comply with these specific points of view”, writes in the name of the majority the conservative judge Samuel Alito, citing the example of works dealing with the marriage of people of the same sex.
american supreme court agrees parents
“Books are undoubtedly normative. They are designed to present certain values and beliefs as things to promote. and others, contrary, as things to condemn “, and this with” impressable young children “, he continues.
“For many believers, few religious acts are more important than the religious education of their children,” observes the Alito judge.
In her opinion of disagreement, progressive judge Sonia Sotomayor argues that public schools “offer children of any confession and origin (…) an opportunity to become familiar with our multicultural society”.
“This essential experience in the civic vitality of our nation (…) will be a simple memory if children are deprived of any exhibition to ideas. concepts likely to conflict with the religious beliefs of their parents,” she worries.
“This decision risks doing damage in public schools. hindering fundamental decisions about their school programs and compromising their ability to prepare for students to live in our pluralist american supreme court agrees parents society,” said Daniel Mach, a legal specialist in the organization of defense of American civil liberties Aclu, believing that it could lead to reopen, for example, the question of teaching the theory of evolution.
On the contrary. the circle of ultra-conservative reflection Heritage Foundation salutes “a resounding victory for American parents, affirming their fundamental right to conduct the moral and religious education of their children”.
American supreme court agrees parents
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