Re: Two cases asserting free exercise of religion heard at Supreme Court

On Apr 22, 2025 at 2:03:09 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

I'm a lot less concerned about the other case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, which
is about parents objections to school curriculum and that it's become
mandatory for public school children to be instructed in LGBTQ+ themes.
 
I've argued before that it's a freedom of the press issue if parents
seek to remove books on subjects they don't approve of from school and
public libraries to "protect children".

Since no library can possibly stock every book currently in print or printed
in the past, then *every* library engages in censorship by deciding which
books it will stock and which books it chooses not to stock. If choosing not
to stock a book is the equivalent of "book banning" as both the Left and the
Right have claimed in the past, then every library bans the vast majority of
books in existence as a matter of normal business.

However in this case, that's not even the issue. The plaintiffs weren't
seeking to pull books off shelves or eliminate curriculum. All they wanted was
an opt-out option for their kids with regard to the tranny curriculum the
school is pushing on very young children-- an option they actually *had* to
begin with until most of the kids in the school were opted-out by their
parents, at which point the school revoked the opt-out option.