{"id":16910,"date":"2025-07-02T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16910"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:57:29","slug":"scotus-rules-in-favor-of-parents-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16910","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Parents\u2019 Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/scotus-rules-in-favor-of-parents-rights\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/scotus-rules-in-favor-of-parents-rights\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled in\u00a0<i>Mahmoud v. Taylor<\/i> that parents have the right to opt-out their children from LGBTQ+ curriculum in public schools. Drawing extensively from <i>Wisconsin v. Yoder<\/i>, a prior Supreme Court decision that affirmed a parent\u2019s right to direct their child\u2019s religious upbringing, the Court\u2019s ruling rightly prevents the Maryland public school board in this case from forcing parents to comply or threatening them with punishment when they choose not to allow their children to undergo LGBTQ+ instruction.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Children do not belong to the state; they belong to their parents. The First Amendment protects the right of every American to raise one\u2019s child according to one\u2019s own religion without interference from public education or the government. This decision is a win for families and religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/scotus-rules-in-favor-of-parents-rights\/ On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled in\u00a0Mahmoud v&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16911,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions\/16911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}