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The High Court Smacks Down the Rainbow Priesthood and Restores Parental Rights...For Now

The High Court Smacks Down the Rainbow Priesthood and Restores Parental Rights...For Now

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Jul 01, 2025
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Apparently, saying "No, my child won’t be attending your drag dog parade reading hour" is now a revolutionary act in 2025. Who knew that opting out of Pride Puppy and Uncle Bobby’s Wedding would be enough to summon the highest court in the land?

And yet, here we are—where a 6-3 SCOTUS ruling has temporarily reintroduced the radical notion that maybe, just maybe, parents should have a say in what their children are spoon-fed by government ideologues dressed up as educators.

In Montgomery County, Maryland, a coalition of over 300 parents—Christian, Muslim, and Jewish (you know when this trio teams up, it’s serious)—filed a lawsuit after the school board yanked their right to opt their children out of a new so-called "inclusive" curriculum. This was a carefully curated selection of ideological indoctrination stories, systematically embedded into pre-K through 8th-grade classrooms.

These books presented gender fluid puppies, same-sex marriages presented as not just normal, but morally superior, with an overarching narrative that biology is a pick-and-choose social construct and parental authority is an obstacle.

The district previously allowed opt-outs but quietly reversed course in 2023, cutting off that right without warning. The argument was that allowing parents to be notified and opt their children out was just too "burdensome."

Too burdensome, apparently, to notify a mother before you subject her five-year-old to pictures of hairy men wearing rainbow thongs holding hands while marching in a “progress” parade. Too burdensome to respect common decency, let alone religious convictions, when there’s an entire generation to catechize into the gospel of queer theory.

The case made its way to the Supreme Court in Mahmoud v. Taylor, where the High Court, in a moment of rare institutional clarity, ruled that the district’s actions "substantially interfered with the religious development of petitioners' children."

The Court noted that the books weren't mere exposure to alternative ideas, but rather carried an unmistakable message: affirm this worldview, or else. Teachers were even instructed to correct dissent and scold students who dared to disagree.

In other words, the state wasn't educating students. It was preaching its gospel. And it had no intention of sharing the pulpit.

The ruling, delivered by Justice Alito, was a much-needed smackdown of what can only be described as the Rainbow Priesthood—a clerical class of activist bureaucrats draped in diversity who see your children as wayward sheep in need of queer conversion.

Their sacrament? Storybooks. Their liturgy? Inclusion. Their deity? The Self, unchained from biology and accountability. And like all jealous gods, they do not share.

This isn't an overstatement. It's their war cry: "We're here, we're queer, we're coming for your children." That chant, once dismissed as fringe theater, has become the unofficial creed of the secular catechists running your local elementary school. And no, they weren’t joking. They never were.

But here’s the real question—the one that cuts through the noise and slams like a gavel:

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