A critical aspect of the long-simmering battle between sanity and psychosis reached the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) this week, and if the Court can’t manage to rebuke the latter, we are definitely not as back as we hoped.
The case began when a group of Maryland parents asked permission for their elementary-aged children to opt-out of classroom sessions where teachers read books featuring gender transitions, Pride parades, “same-sex playground romance,” according to documents on the SCOTUS website.
On Tuesday, SCOTUS heard arguments from the parents’ counsel and Alan E. Schoenfeld, who represents the Montgomery County Board of Education.
“The books at issue here, five among hundreds in the curriculum, are meant to foster mutual respect in a pluralistic school community,” Schoenfeld argued. “MCPS makes explicitly clear that students do not need to accept, agree with, or affirm anything they read or anything about their classmates' beliefs or lives. The lesson is that students should treat their peers with respect.”
When pressed by Justice Neil Gorsuch, citing a district court finding, on whether or not the books were meant to “influence” children, Schoenfeld said the books were meant to “influence them toward civility.”
This transparent bluff, this faux innocent appeal to liberal tolerance, is the common retreat from people who defend and create sludge like Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope — one of the books cited in the court record.
According to The New York Times, the book’s author, Jodie Patterson, was so “flummoxed by the controversy” she asked herself, “My little book? How is that harming anyone?”
“When certain religions and certain religious people say, ‘This is not appropriate for my religion,’ it’s problematic,” she added. “Not because I don’t want to respect people’s religions, but because reading stories about children who are different is fundamental.”
Meanwhile, this demon book, this reprehensible and blithe confession of abuse, tells the story of how she transitioned her daughter into a boy (or maybe vice versa — the gender confusion is, by design, hard to follow due to its inherent Godlessness)
From the summary on Amazon: “Penelope knows that he's a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it.”
Patterson’s bio describes her as “an active LGBTQI advocate” who has been recognized by Hillary Clinton and GLAAD. Perhaps you caught her 2017 Tedx Talk titled “Gender is Obsolete.” She also works “closely” with the Human Rights Campaign’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council.
Jodie Patterson is not a mother who writes children’s books. She is a hyper-radical, demented activist poorly masquerading as an author of books for kids. The ideology of confusion, i.e., gender-goblinism, is the very point and end goal of introducing trash like Born Ready to little kids. This woman knows exactly what she’s doing, and when she’s called out she plays dumb and innocent.
Now, SCOTUS has a specific question to answer:
Do public schools burden parents' religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents' religious convictions and without notice or opportunity to opt out?
The sane justices on SCOTUS better bend themselves backwards to find enough legal precedent to answer that question with a thunderous, “Absolutely!”
The term “burden” in legalese refers to a restriction, obligation or duty imposed. Books like Born Ready assume there is no distinction between man and woman as a matter of praxis. That baseline assumption is malevolently baked into the content.
If you’re a Christian family raising a Christian child to believe “male and female He created them,” and your child learns that distinction is false, that’s more than a parental burden — that’s a catastrophe hurled at a parent’s religious exercise.
It’s absolutely imperative for SCOTUS to get this decision right. If they fail, gender-goblinism will have its way with an untold number of little kids in public schools.
