A father didn’t want his five-year-old son exposed to any lessons and programs related to sexual orientation and “gender identity.” But a school district in Massachusetts disregarded the father’s request and exposed the elementary-school child anyway.
The father sued Lexington Public Schools for violating his First Amendment right to raise his child according to his religious beliefs.
Liberty Counsel (LC) announced on Monday that a federal judge granted the father’s request for a preliminary injunction against the school district while the case is pending.
Lexington Public Schools and Joseph Estabrook Elementary School must notify the father of such material and allow him to opt out his son.
Government schools must have young minds to indoctrinate. Officials don’t want parents opting out, but they’re running into a barrier: the U.S. Constitution.
“Judge Saylor based his ruling heavily on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025 Mahmoud v. Taylor decision that found compelling children to undergo LGBTQ-themed instruction without giving parents a choice to opt-out violates the First Amendment,” according to LC.
The Supreme Court ruled in Mahmoud that Montgomery County Public Schools violated parents’ right to opt their children out of homosexual “transgender” indoctrination under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. The school district also failed to notify parents.
Mat Staver, LC’s founder and chairman, said that forcing children “to be exposed to offensive instruction that is antithetical and hostile to their parents’ religious beliefs is unconstitutional.”
The government knows best? Not by a long shot. Government bureaucrats know least. Parents get to decide how they want to direct their children’s education and upbringing — even if the government doesn’t like it.
