To the editor: After studying the complete textual content of the Supreme Court docket’s determination in Mahmoud vs. Taylor, there’s little doubt in my thoughts that this precedent shall be used to restrict the flexibility of public faculties to show LGBTQ+ historical past in any respect ranges, regardless of some ambiguous and unconvincing sops to age appropriateness (“California law faces revise as high court allows parents to ‘opt out’ of LGBTQ+ school stories,” June 27).
When dad and mom are instructed they will choose and select what historical past is taught to their kids based mostly on their faith, the door is opened to ignorance, persecution and the proverbial doom of repeating historical past’s previous errors.
In what sounded disturbingly like a political, not judicial, determination, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. made reference to the truth that “many People” oppose same-sex marriage, as if that was a justification for denying the truth of years of discrimination. He awkwardly threw in, as an apart, that in Maryland same-sex marriage is the legislation after which acted as if this didn’t matter the place kids’s training was involved. He couldn’t disguise his disgust on the considered a same-sex marriage being roundly celebrated even in a kids’s fairy-tale guide.
Sadly, 4 justices who I may need thought knew higher went alongside.
Thomas Bailey, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: As a Christian, I’m deeply disheartened by the Supreme Court docket’s determination to permit dad and mom to make use of spiritual beliefs as grounds for opting their kids out of books that includes LGBTQ+ characters. This ruling raises issues about different situations the place spiritual beliefs could be used to exclude books that depict interracial {couples}, ladies working, males doing family chores, racial equality, evolution, non-Christian religions, civil rights and rather more. Many Christians have traditionally held these beliefs, and it’s seemingly that many nonetheless do, which might result in widespread opt-outs of necessary literature, science and historic matters.
Public training has been and continues to be a energy of our nation. It exposes us to information, after all, but in addition the good variety of individuals and concepts in order that we’re not divided into and by small silos of knowledge.
Chris Soltow, Thousand Oaks
