To the editor: After studying the total textual content of the Supreme Courtroom’s resolution in Mahmoud vs. Taylor, there’s little doubt in my thoughts that this precedent might 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 regulation faces revise as excessive courtroom permits mother and father to ‘choose out’ of LGBTQ+ faculty tales,” June 27).
When mother and father are informed they will decide and select what historical past is taught to their youngsters 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, resolution, 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 e book.
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 Courtroom’s resolution to permit mother and father to make use of spiritual beliefs as grounds for opting their youngsters out of books that includes LGBTQ+ characters. This ruling raises issues about different eventualities the place spiritual beliefs is likely to be used to exclude books that depict interracial {couples}, ladies working, males doing family chores, racial equality, evolution, non-Christian religions, civil rights and far more. Many Christians have traditionally held these beliefs, and it’s possible that many nonetheless do, which may result in widespread opt-outs of vital literature, science and historic matters.
Public schooling has been and continues to be a power of our nation. It exposes us to info, in fact, but in addition the nice range of individuals and concepts in order that we aren’t divided into and by small silos of data.
Chris Soltow, Thousand Oaks
