To the editor: After reading the full text of the Decision of the Supreme Court in Mahmoud vs. Taylor, there is no doubt in my mind that this precedent will be used to limit the ability of public schools to teach LGBTQ+ history at all levels, despite some ambiguous and unconventional SOP to the adaptation of age.“California's law faces the review as the Superior Court allows parents to 'choose not to participate' of LGBTQ+school stories.” June 27).
When parents are told that they can choose what history is taught to their children based on their religion, the door opens up to ignorance, persecution and proverbial fatality of repeating past errors in history.
In what disturbedly sounded as a political decision, not judicial, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. made reference to the fact that “many Americans” oppose same -sex marriage, as if that were a justification to deny the reality of years of discrimination. He incorporated awkwardly, as a side, that in Maryland the marriage between people of the same sex is the law and then acted as if this did not matter in regard to the education of children. He could not disguise his disgust at the idea of a same -sex marriage that is celebrated flatly even in a fairy tales book for children.
Unfortunately, four judges who could have thought that I knew it was better.
Thomas Bailey, Long Beach
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To the editor: As a Christian, I am deeply discouraged by the decision of the Supreme Court to allow parents to use religious beliefs as reasons to opt for their children with books with LGBTQ+characters. This ruling raises concerns about other scenarios in which religious beliefs could be used to exclude books that represent interracial couples, women who work, men who do domestic tasks, racial equality, evolution, non -Christian religions, civil rights and much more. Historically, many Christians have sustained these beliefs, and it is likely that many still do so, which could lead to generalized options for important literature, science and historical issues.
Public education has been and remains a strength of our country. It exposes us to the facts, of course, but also to the great diversity of people and ideas so that we do not divide and be small silos of information.
Chris Soltow, Thousand Oaks
