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June 29, 2023 | | Print Article

Hundreds of Maryland parents of various religions and ethnicities joined together on Tuesday to protest the indoctrination of their children.

Comprised of Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, and Peruvian Catholics, the crowd of 1,000+ parents was fed-up with the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education’s attempts to indoctrinate their children in LGBT radicalism.

According to Fox News, the trouble started when these parents tried to opt their children out of the district’s LGBT curriculum, but the district said no.

The district specifically pointed to a policy that says students and families “may not choose to opt out of engaging with any instructional materials, other than ‘Family Life and Human Sexuality Unit of Instruction’ which is specifically permitted by Maryland law. As such, teachers will not send home letters to inform families when inclusive books are read in the future.”

Notice the use of the “woke” buzzword “inclusive.”

See scenes from Tuesday’s protest below courtesy Asra Nomani, a conservative parent and activist who’s been instrumental in fighting back against leftist overreach:

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But by dismissing the parents, the district only exacerbated the outrage.

“A few months ago, a handful of parents had spoken at board meetings about the issue, but the demonstrations have expanded to hundreds,” as reported by The Washington Post.

According to local parent Bethany Mandel, who’s also a writer for Deseret News, some of the content parents wanted to opt out of for their kids were sexually explicit books “about transgender ideology, about sexuality.”

“Some of the parents who spoke [at a recent hearing] in favor of [not allowing an] opt-out said… ‘I’m gay, and a book didn’t make me gay and… There’s no way that your child, if you shield them in this manner, can sort of operate in the outside world,’ and that’s not what anyone is asserting,” she told Fox News.

“No one thinks that our kids can turn gay by reading a book. What we’re asserting is that children are best learning about these sort of tricky, sticky subjects from their parents, and their parents should have a right to determine how their kids are first introduced to this,” she added.

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As previously reported, some of the LGBT books being exposed to children contain extremely explicit content, including even instructions on how to engage in both regular and anal sex.

By dismissing the parents, the district also made the mistake of inspiring all of them to team up together into one giant, unassailable force. A diverse one at that.

Indeed, according to Mandel, who’s white, SHE was the minority at Tuesday’s rally.

“What was really incredible was I was in the minority as far as ethnicity there. It was largely black and brown, a lot of Christians. What was really inspiring was there was also a number of Muslim families there on a fast day. They had been fasting all day long in the Washington, D.C., heat, in the pouring rain, the skies opened up in the middle of the rally,” she told Fox News.

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“It started with about a thousand people and there were… hundreds of people when I got there after the storm let up. It was really incredible. They were all sort of there on message, and as one of the speakers said, it wasn’t partisan. It was just truly like, we want a right to say what our kids are learning,” she added.

Exactly. It’s all about the kids. The parents have literally said so: “I’m here for the children,” Shibeshi Darge, one of the protest goers, told the Post.

But the district doesn’t seem to care, and now it’s paying a price.

In addition to protesting, some parents have also filed suit.

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“A group of families is suing the Montgomery County Public Schools superintendent and the school board over the Maryland school system’s LGBTQ book policy,” D.C. station WJLA reported in late May.

“The parents are suing to have the right to opt out of LGTBQ-themed books, and they argue some of the school system’s books are age-inappropriate,” the station added.

In a statement to the station, Will Haun of Becket Law stressed that much of this has to do with religious freedom as much as it does with parental rights.

“Our clients represent families from all across Montgomery County with diverse religious faiths. And while they have differences on those issues, they share one thing in common, which is the right of parents to direct their children’s religious upbringing and their education, especially when it comes to sensitive issues, like a person’s identity, their child’s own identity,” he said.

“What this goes to is that despite any differences of faith, all parents agree that they have the right to direct their children’s religious upbringing, and they have the right to direct their children’s education when it comes to sensitive issues. The school is supposed to support them in that, and, unfortunately, Montgomery County has taken an approach here that says, ‘No, we’re going to cut the parents out on these most sensitive issues.’ It’s inconsistent with their own policies, with Maryland law and, most of all, the U.S. Constitution,” he added.

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