Raskin on LGBTQ books ruling: Implications are 'breathtaking'

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday criticized the Supreme Court ruling that sided with parents who seek to opt out their children from reading LGBTQ books in school, calling its implications “breathtaking.”

“If you can opt out of mandatory classroom readings because it offends your religious objections, you can do it because it offends your philosophical beliefs, your political beliefs, your moral beliefs, or what have you, and the court basically says, ‘We’ll deal with all that down the road,'” Raskin told CNN’s Jim Sciutto in an interview Friday afternoon.

The ruling, which stemmed from a case of Muslim, Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents in Maryland suing over a school district’s incorporation of book with LGBTQ characters in curriculum, was decided in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines.

“You’re going to have a lot more cases where people are saying ‘Our family doesn’t believe in evolution. So we don’t want our kid to be in class when evolution is taught,'” Raskin said about the decision, which impacts his constituents.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/raskin-lgbtq-books-ruling-implications-225254767.html

[Chipper Chat]

1. So when is the bible going to be banned.

[Ocelot II]

2. If I live in TX or Louisiana can I opt my kid out

of Bible study or having to look at the Ten Commandments poster n the classroom?

[wcmagumba]

3. We're living in Gilead, soon to be red robes and white bonnets for women and hangings on the town square...

Republicans sure know how to have fun..."Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!". 

[valleyrogue]

4. I will never understand this reasoning.

Of course the parents were going to win this case; it is really a no-brainer. That's because when there is controversial content being used in classrooms, parental consent has always been required for their kids to read the books. Ditto for films being shown in class.

They can have alternative books.

It has always been this way. A school district messed up by not having consent forms. The sticking point is the mandatory nature of having students read the materials.

Raskin is off-base here.