SCOTUS reminds schools: Parents, not bureaucrats, raise America’s children
Parents, not bureaucrats, raise America’s children and the Supreme Court agrees Parents have a Constitutional right to parent their children
Parents, not bureaucrats, raise America’s children and the Supreme Court agrees Parents have a Constitutional right to parent their children
(FOX) - The United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that should strike fear into woke school boards across America. In Mirabelli v. Bonta, the Court held that a California law preventing schools from disclosing to parents their child’s claimed “gender identity” at school violated parents’ free exercise rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment and their substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court determined that California’s policy of socially transitioning children to a different gender at school without parental consent likely violates the free exercise rights of those who have “sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs.” The court went on to note that this “unconsented facilitation of a child’s gender transition is greater than the indoctrination of LGBTQ story books” that the court addressed last summer in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The court similarly found in Mahmoud that Montgomery County Public Schools violated the rights of objecting parents. That school district paid out $1.5 million to settle the case.
The court also made clear that California’s policy requiring schools to keep a student’s “gender identity” secret from parents likely…