4TH CIRCUIT HOLDING ON LGBTQ BOOKS IN SCHOOLS
Exposure to LGBTQ Books Does Not Infringe on Parents’ Religious Freedom
Religious liberty is indelibly embedded in American history and the U.S. Constitution. The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which is made applicable to states under the Fourteenth Amendment, provides that governments “shall make no law … prohibiting the free exercise” of religion. This protection “requires government respect for, and noninterference with, the religious beliefs and practices of our nation’s people.” — Cutter v. Wilkinson (2005). And in considering the claims of religious adherents, the Supreme Court has reiterated that “religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent or comprehensible to others in order to merit…
