San Diego, CA—Hailing the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling Mahmoud v. Taylor as a game-changing boost for parental rights and religious freedom, the National Center for Law & Policy is urging parents to be intentional and proactive in protecting their children from the harms and dangers of the growing ideological indoctrination occurring in public school classrooms across America.
The NCLP has two specific recommendations. First, parents should become fully informed about the many ways public schools are actively undermining religious faith, including, but not limited to, inculcating LGBTQ+ identity ideologies with younger and younger students. Second, parents should exercise their right to be notified and opt out of any objectionable instruction that poses a threat to undermining and harming the religious beliefs and practices they are instilling in their children.
When it comes to the religious training of children, the U.S. Supreme Court has appropriately restored the power of parents to inculcate faith and protect their children from statist ideological harm. To that end, the NCLP has created a powerful model opt-out letter for concerned parents, which, consistent with the Mahmoud decision, requires public schools to notify parents in advance about religiously objectionable materials in public school classrooms, along with the right to excuse their child from such instruction.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, “…to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical…” Yet that is precisely what most of public education has become in America. Parents are coerced into paying taxes to support public schools that are working five days a week to teach children things that contradict and undermine the religious beliefs and values instilled at home. Public schools focus far too much precious educational time indoctrinating our children to be good little woke Marxists, who affirm all things LGBTQ+. This is not freedom. This is sinful and tyrannical.
“For far too long, our taxpayer dollars have been misappropriated and abused as a form of ideological warfare and tyranny against us, employed to undermine and destroy our freedom and our faith by the means of state coercion,” stated the NCLP’s Dean Broyles. “This ends now. This is truly a great day in our democratic republic. No longer do woke so-called progressive lefty bullies have the unchecked power to attack and undermine our faith and corrupt our children’s worldview. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has shifted power from the state back to parents, where it has always belonged. Today is the day for parents to wake up, exercise their God-given authority, and demand that public schools acknowledge, respect, and accommodate the deeply held religious beliefs we desire to inculcate in our children’s hearts and minds.”
You can download, personalize, and print a copy of the NCLP’s public school model opt-out letter for religious families here.