By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether schools may read LGBTQ+ books to elementary school students without giving parents the ability to opt their children out on religious grounds. The lawsuit over a Maryland school district’s policy landed at the Supreme Court amid raging culture war fights about transgender rights and how much control parents should have over school curriculum. A group of mostly Muslim a…

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US Supreme Court to hear dispute over LGBT books in Maryland school district

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by religious parents to keep their children out of classes in a Maryland public school district when LGBT storybooks are read, the latest case to come to the justices involving the intersection between religion and LGBT rights.

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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from parents in suburban Washington who want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.

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Supreme Court will hear case of Maryland parents who object to LGBTQ books in their kids' classes

In the 'Pride Puppy' alphabet book, kids chase a dog through a pride parade. 'Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope,' is a about a transgender boy.

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`Pride Puppy': Supreme Court takes up parents' fight over LGBTQ+ books

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether schools may read LGBTQ+ books to elementary school students without giving parents the ability to opt their children out on religious grounds.

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Supreme Court to weigh if elementary schools may require LGBTQ+ reading

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a legal challenge over whether parents can opt their children out of LGBTQ story time in public elementary schools.

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Supreme Court takes up parents' challenge to LGBTQ story time in elementary school

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Parents in Montgomery Count, Maryland, want to be able to opt out of instruction on gender and sexuality that they say goes against their religious convictions.

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The case involves whether parents' religious rights were violated when a Maryland school district declined to allow them to opt their children out of gender and sexuality instruction.

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Supreme Court takes up Maryland parents' bid to opt kids out of lessons with LGBTQ books

The parents, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, sued Montgomery County Public Schools in 2023 after the school district said it would no longer honor opt-out requests or notify families if a book referencing gender or sexuality would be read in class.

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