Moms for Liberty founder Tina Descovich clarified that the Supreme Court case on public school curriculum goes beyond religious affiliations.
The case is centered on Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools deciding in 2023 to eliminate opt-outs for its students. This meant parents could no longer pull their children out of classes on sensitive subjects for any reason. Now it’s facing a challenge from the Becket Fund representing parents of all religious backgrounds and also nonreligious parents.
“It’s ultimately about the fundamental right, your right given to you by God to raise your children and direct their moral and religious upbringing, their medical care and their education, and most certainly their education when they’re out of your care, and sitting in a public school, and so this case touches a lot of those areas,” Descovich said of the case on Fox News’s My View with Lara Trump on Saturday. “But if you listen to some of the arguments, it was fascinating and a little bit disgusting to hear Supreme Court justices saying words like leather and bondage and lace, and underwear and things they had to discuss that were in books for three years in Montgomery County.”
So far, the Supreme Court justices are seemingly leaning toward the parents, considering the children involved were so young.
“At a certain age, children may not yet be able to distinguish between a teacher’s moral authority and their parents’ beliefs,” Justice Samuel Alito said.
Meanwhile, Moms for Liberty representatives held demonstrations outside the courthouse where the case was being heard in Washington, D.C. Other groups like plaintiff Kids First also sent representatives to be outside the steps as counterprotesters joined in favor of LGBT books.
The court’s decision is expected in late June.
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Descovich also praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to abolish the Department of Education, saying parents, not the federal government, should have “control and input over what is happening to our children on the local level.”
“You have to be involved in education policy, especially when President Trump finishes dismantling the Department of Education, it is going to be more important than ever that parents get active and involved,” Descovich said.
