To the editor: After studying the complete textual content of the Supreme Courtroom’s choice in Mahmoud vs. Taylor, there’s little doubt in my thoughts that this precedent can be used to restrict the power of public faculties to show LGBTQ+ historical past in any respect ranges, regardless of some ambiguous and unconvincing sops to age appropriateness (“California regulation faces revise as excessive court docket permits mother and father to ‘decide out’ of LGBTQ+ faculty tales,” June 27).
When mother and father are informed they’ll decide and select what historical past is taught to their youngsters primarily based 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, choice, 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 fact of years of discrimination. He awkwardly threw in, as an apart, that in Maryland same-sex marriage is the regulation after which acted as if this didn’t matter the place youngsters’s schooling was involved. He couldn’t disguise his disgust on the considered a same-sex marriage being roundly celebrated even in a youngsters’s fairy-tale guide.
Sadly, 4 justices who I might 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 Courtroom’s choice to permit mother and father to make use of non secular beliefs as grounds for opting their youngsters out of books that includes LGBTQ+ characters. This ruling raises issues about different eventualities the place non secular beliefs is perhaps 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 may result in widespread opt-outs of essential literature, science and historic subjects.
Public schooling has been and continues to be a energy of our nation. It exposes us to details, after all, but additionally the good variety of individuals and concepts in order that we’re not divided into and by small silos of data.
Chris Soltow, Thousand Oaks
