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Thomas W. Taylor et al., Respondents In 2022, the Montgomery County School Board in Montgomery County, Maryland, adopted a number of “LGBTQ-inclusive” storybooks for use in its schools’ classroom instruction. During the 2022–2023 academic year, a number of parents chose to opt their children out of any instruction using the material, citing religious objections. In March 2023, however, the school board decided to end parental opt-outs for the LGBTQ books for the following school year, asserting that managing such requests had become unwieldy. A group of parents then sued the school district, alleging that the new policy violated their…
