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One member of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito, has expressed concern that the federal court system is avoiding one issue because it is so charged.
That's parental rights.
"I remain concerned that some federal courts are 'tempt[ed]' to avoid confronting a 'particularly contentious constitutional question': whether a school district violates parents' fundamental rights 'when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process,'" he wrote this week.
He agreed with the majority in denying the petition in the case Lee v. Poudre School District R-1 in Colorado, where leftist state officials long have advocated for, even demanded, pro-LGBT ideologies, on technical grounds.
The state, in fact, has lost multiple court cases when it has tried to demand that Christians violate their faith by promoting those choices. In one of those cases, the Supreme Court itself criticized the state's "hostility" to Christians.
He said he was worried over the "nearly 6,000 public schools" cited in the case for their policies that hide school managers' agendas to make boys believe they can change into girls and vice versa.
"The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the 'great and growing national importance' of the question that these parent petitioners present,'" Alito wrote.
According to a report at the Washington Examiner, the Colorado fight was over an agenda from a middle school that "allegedly hid the promotion of gender ideology to students … with officials at the school giving prizes to students who 'came out' as transgender" at student meetings.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined Alito's statements.
America First Policy Institute, which worked on the case, said its work to litigate against other such school extremism was continuing.
"Our mission doesn't end here," Gina D'Andrea, of the AFPI, said, "Schools should never be allowed to introduce complex, identity-shaping ideas in secret. And we will continue holding them accountable.
"Every parent deserves the right to know what their child is being taught," D'Andrea explained.