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Maryland school district agrees to pay parents $1.5 million, allow opt-outs for LGBT books

Montgomery County Public Schools has reached a settlement with parents who sued over its LGBT indoctrination policy and will now give parents advance notice about materials on sexuality.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Feb 24, 2026Feb 25, 2026

Court rules Maryland school district can force teachers to use ‘transgender’ names, pronouns

Montgomery County Public Schools had required a substitute teacher to refer to children by preferred pronouns and names despite her Christian beliefs.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Feb 4, 2026Feb 5, 2026

Supreme Court rules parents can opt children out of LGBT books

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Maryland parents seeking to opt their children out of school lessons featuring pro-LGBT books, in a major victory for parents’ rights.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Jun 27, 2025Jun 28, 2025

66 Republicans urge SCOTUS to stop LGBT indoctrination of children in Maryland without parental consent

66 Republican members of Congress filed a brief to the Supreme Court supporting parents who are suing a Maryland school board that mandates LGBT indoctrination as early as kindergarten without parental consent.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Mar 13, 2025Mar 14, 2025

Virginia school district reinstates teacher fired for opposing gender ideology on social media

Montgomery County Public Schools had dismissed a teacher for dissenting from transgender orthodoxy in personal social media posts.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Jan 31, 2025Feb 3, 2025

Supreme Court to decide if parents can opt their kids out of pro-LGBT school lessons

‘The Court must make clear: Parents, not the state, should be the ones deciding how and when to introduce their children to sensitive issues about gender and sexuality,’ Becket Fund attorney Eric Baxter said.

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Doug Mainwaring

• Jan 20, 2025Jan 21, 2025

Becket Fund asks US Supreme Court to pursue slate of religious liberty cases in fall term

The nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty says government bureaucrats are generating more and more cases, but it hopes the recent ruling in the Chevron case reverses the trend.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Sep 20, 2024Sep 23, 2024

Supreme Court refuses to hear case against Maryland school district’s secret ‘transitioning’ policy

The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the petition of three parents regarding a Maryland school district’s gender transitioning policy after a lower court dismissed their case over a lack of standing.

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Joseph Summers

• May 21, 2024May 22, 2024

Federal court rejects parental challenge to Maryland school district’s pro-LGBT reading list

Religious liberty law firm Becket says it will appeal the ruling, which effectively forces students to be exposed to books like 'Prince and Knight,' 'Rainbow Revolutionaries,' and 'The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope.'

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Calvin Freiburger

• May 20, 2024May 21, 2024

19 state attorneys general file brief challenging parents’ rights to protect kids from LGBT materials

The attorneys general filed the brief in response to a lawsuit brought by three religious families – Muslim, Ukrainian Orthodox, and Catholic – who seek to opt their children out of reading required LGBT books for religious reasons.

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Ashley Sadler

• Nov 6, 2023Nov 14, 2023

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Maryland school district agrees to pay parents $1.5 million, allow opt-outs for LGBT books

Court rules Maryland school district can force teachers to use ‘transgender’ names, pronouns

Supreme Court rules parents can opt children out of LGBT books

66 Republicans urge SCOTUS to stop LGBT indoctrination of children in Maryland without parental consent

Virginia school district reinstates teacher fired for opposing gender ideology on social media

Supreme Court to decide if parents can opt their kids out of pro-LGBT school lessons

Becket Fund asks US Supreme Court to pursue slate of religious liberty cases in fall term

Supreme Court refuses to hear case against Maryland school district’s secret ‘transitioning’ policy

Federal court rejects parental challenge to Maryland school district’s pro-LGBT reading list

19 state attorneys general file brief challenging parents’ rights to protect kids from LGBT materials