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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Maryland parents who want to remove their children, on religious grounds, from public school lessons in which “LGBTQ+-inclusive” books are used. As expected, the Court provided a preliminary injunction in favor of the parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor in a 6-3 decision, with the Court’s three liberal justices dissenting. The school district originally allowed parents to opt their children out of lessons in which LGBTQ+ books were used. Eventually, the opt outs became disruptive and the county reversed the policy. In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito writes, “The [school] Board’s introduction of

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