Religion = denial of reality.

It should be illegal for religious people to indoctrinate children with their religious beliefs.
But in USA they have turned it on its head, and made it illegal to teach the truth because of religious superstition!

I see this as a complete parenting fail. It is not your job as a parent to 'protect' your child from the world, it is your job to prepare them for it.

That poor kid is gonna need a lot of therapy later in life after he/she moves out on their own.

And now because of the Streisand Effect, their child knows all about LGBTQ+ people while also having the knowledge that their dad is a piece of shit.

Doesn’t this open the way for a parent to sue the school over Christian symbolism? A parent could should take that school to court over a Christmas tree.

Christianity has harmed more people that LGBTQ people have. Many types of Christians have to try and save you by converting you. LGBTQ folks aren't trying to convert you.

Ok, no more Bible. After all eve came from Adam's rib right?

I don't believe in Christians

Amazing they enroll someone in school to not learn things. Devout ignorance.

Kid is going to have a rude awakening when he runs a web query on his dad and everything that comes up has “gay” in the title.

Your Religion = What YOU can't do, NOT what I can't do.

Ban books that show people wearing clothes with mixed fabrics! Its against mah religion!

Why do fundamentalist Christians choose homosexuality specifically as their hill to die on?

Leviticus 19:19

“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.”

Deuteronomy 22:11

“You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.”

As a Christian, I object to books featuring rich people, people who don't help poor people, people who don't heal the sick, and people who are mean to foreigners. Unless the perpetrators of those unChristian acts get their comeuppance, of course. Can I now demand from schools that my kid doesn't get exposed to those kinds of books?

That is when you know you are losing when you have to hide the truth from your kid.

Death. At this point, I just wish death upon these hateful people.

Bigotry ftw

As the Boston Herald reported, the father, identified in court documents as Alan L., is described as a “devout Christian” who objects to the inclusion of certain children’s books featuring LGBTQ+ characters in the kindergarten curriculum of Joseph Estabrook Elementary School, where his son, identified as J.L., is enrolled.

Seems like an ideal candidate for home-schooling, though that's a shitty thing to do to a kid.

I didn't even find out what gay people were until like 5th grade. This is all completely unnecessary to achieve their bigotry.

The case isn't finished yet, I see, so maybe sanity can yet prevail. So far it's just a preliminary injunction.

“The question presented here is not whether the viewpoints of plaintiff, or those of the school officials, are ‘correct’ as a matter of religious faith or political or social belief. Nor is it whether the materials should be part of the kindergarten curriculum for other students,” Saylor, a George W. Bush appointee, explained. “Instead, this case presents a narrow question: whether these specific defendants have provided the required notice and opportunity to review materials that this specific plaintiff may find objectionable, so that he may opt his child out of classroom instruction that violates his religious beliefs.”

In granting Alan L.’s request for a preliminary injunction, which will remain in place while the case proceeds, Saylor ordered the school and district to “make reasonable efforts to ensure that J.L. is not taught or otherwise exposed to the content of the Identified Books, whether in the classroom or any other school setting” and to ensure J.L. receives “reasonable age-appropriate alternative instruction.”

Lawyers for Lexington Public Schools, however, said the district looks forward to “aggressively defending against these claims.” In a statement, attorneys Douglas I. Louison and Alexandra M. Gill noted the district’s existing religious-based opt-out program and that the Supreme Court’s Mahmoud decision “made it clear that depicting the mere existence of potentially-offensive values or lifestyles is not enough to warrant an opt-out, and that it is the messaging associated with those potentially-offensive materials that determines whether an opt-out is warranted.”

“In this case, the materials are not associated with any LGBTQ+-focused curriculum or paired instruction, nor was the student even exposed to the two books at issue,” Louison and Gill added, according to the Herald.

Louison and Gill also noted the burden opt-out demands like Alan L.’s place on schools.

“This is not like a student with a peanut allergy, where the implementation of an accommodation to protect the student is reasonably clear,” they wrote. “Schools are burdened enough without having to scour the pages of a storybook for potentially gay-appearing characters. At what point, for instance, is a character’s haircut too short to presume they are a woman? Are two men sitting together at a restaurant presumed to be gay, or might they just be friends? There are innumerable scenarios like these, and schools are now being forced to make near-impossible judgments.”

is never exposed to books featuring LGBTQ+ characters

Bad news on that Bible, buddy

If there's a gilod, this guy's kid will be gay, and not shy about it.

$20 says this fuck rubs it to gay porn.

Nothing inspires curiosity more than making something forbidden.

That kid is gonna find out ALL KINDS of information that his dad doesn’t want him to know about from his peers. Some of it good, most of it inaccurate, but you go ahead, dad.

To think, if we'd had this kind of majority 20 years ago, we could have removed the entire study of evolution from high school criteria.

That dude is probably on Grindr

If he cares that much about giving his kid a warped view of reality, he should be homeschooling.

This seems a lot like "schools have to participate in santa claus kayfabe" and it seems stupid and unworkable.

What if your belief is that sun orbits the earth? That germ theory isn't real?

The supreme court should be in jail for making a ruling this stupid.

Edit: On the funnier side this suggests schools cannot legally mention marriage and it would be perfectly fine for them to ban things like wedding bands to prevent children from learning about sexuality. Malicious compliance needs to be done here.

He'll find out when his dad is the bad guy in the documentary.

Wait until neonazis will use this to opt out their kids from holocaust education!

A Boston judge has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts dad who sued his local school district to ensure his five-year-old son is never exposed to books featuring Christian characters.

As the Boston Herald reported, the father, identified in court documents as Alan L., is described as "queer" who objects to the inclusion of certain children’s books featuring Christian characters in the kindergarten curriculum of Joseph Estabrook Elementary School, where his son, identified as J.L., is enrolled.

Morons just won the Morons vs Reality case

impressed with y'all for chasing that guy out

I really hope that kid comes out as LGBTQ in the future. I can just imagine them as Columbia at a Rocky Horror shadowcast midnight screening. Seriously!

I would argue that this is inhumane treatment of the child. Depriving people of publically available knowledge in order to enforce an ideology is mistreatment and oppression of said people.

Ideological control and enforcement should not be a parental right; this is child abuse. They're forcing the child into the parents' ideology, which violates the child's right to free thought.