"What is the big deal about allowing them to opt out of this," Justice Samuel Alito Jr. asked a lawyer representing ...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments on April 22 in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which a group of parents of elementary school ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over the religious rights of parents in Maryland to remove their children ...

The Supreme Court this week will hear a Montgomery County case impacting the debate over classroom books with themes of ...

Supreme Court justices appeared to side Tuesday with Montgomery County parents who say the county's refusal to let them opt ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over the religious rights of parents in Maryland to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks with LGBTQ characters.

Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor, in particular, wrestled with the themes and central message of a children’s book ...

At the center of the case is the school system in Montgomery County, Md., the most religiously diverse county in the U.S., ...

Rather, they’re asking for notice and a chance to opt their kids out of certain instruction, in this case sparked by books featuring LGBTQ characters ... That line-drawing consideration is ...

“The LGBTQ-Inclusive books were thus introduced ... to leave the classroom whenever language arts lessons draw on books featuring LGBTQ characters, students who believe that the books represent ...

But she said the case presented very difficult line-drawing problems between allowing ... He focused on one character in the book, which is intended to be read by 3- to 6-year-olds.

And where should public school administrators draw the line? Montgomery County ... officials also added a list of books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes that teachers could read aloud in classrooms.