LGBTQ to SUE if Parents Opt Kids Out of Queer School Programming

Liberty Counsel gears up for the latest battle over parental rights.

LGBTQ groups in California have announced they will SUE if parents choose to opt their children out of public school-sponsored “queer” programming.  

The announcement proves that the LGBTQ agenda never wanted to simply live their lives in peace, but rather to indoctrinate your children — whether you like it or not.

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The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor (a case in which we filed a brief) decided that public schools MUST allow parents to opt their children out of state- and school-sponsored LGBTQ programming that conflicts with their religious beliefs. The High Court affirmed parents’ religious freedom right to protect their children from public school-sponsored “queer” brainwashing.

But the LGBTQ & leftist school districts refuse to take no for an answer. Once again, California is paving the road to hell.

California school superintendents and LGBTQ “advocates” are already trying to devise ways to get around the Mahmoud ruling with three lines of attack.

1. The State wants to dictate church doctrine.

School administrators claim they are trying to devise ways to verify whether a parent’s religious accommodation requests are “legitimate.”

Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Boards Association, claims that “Superintendents have concerns about how to make a fact-specific determination regarding parent requests.”

But what Mr. Flint and the school administrators refuse to understand is that NO government agent or agency on any level gets to determine the validity of any person’s faith, the tenets of that faith, or how that faith must be practiced.

As our legal work has proven over and over again in courts across the nation — especially during the tyrannical COVID years — that when a person requests a religious exemption based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, that exemption MUST be considered. To do otherwise would establish the government as the arbiter of religion — the very combination of church and state our founders sought to eliminate.

School administrators are also reportedly devising tactics to make it harder for parents to opt out by creating so many hurdles that the average parent will simply not be able to fully opt their children out.

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2. LGBTQ plans to sue if parents opt out of school-sponsored LGBTQ programming.

In a situation not unlike our case defending Kim Davis — who is being personally sued into bankruptcy by two men for daring to use her state, federal and constitutionally guaranteed right to religious freedom — California LGBTQ advocates now say they will sue if schools allow religious parents to opt their own children out of school-sponsored LGBTQ indoctrination. The advocates reportedly plan to claim in their lawsuits that a parent’s right to “opt out” of school-sponsored queer programming is “discrimination” against the LGBTQ.

Flint admits that school administrators “are hesitant to address this publicly for fear of attracting more scrutiny and making the issue even more difficult to manage.” In other words, the school administrators are trying to keep the issue quiet so parents don’t know they have the right to opt their children out, and therefore the LGBTQ brainwashing can continue largely unhindered.

The State of Maryland tried this same tactic, leading to the High Court’s Mahmoud decision. In Mahmoud, the state vehemently fought parents’ rights to opt their children, even as young as kindergarteners, out of LGBTQ lessons and doctrine.

When Mahmoud was handed down, Maryland schools received so many religious freedom opt-outs that they had to cancel the LGBTQ programming altogether. They did not have the resources to manage the opted-out children while the LGBTQ lessons were ongoing.

That alone is a huge win, and it is indicative of how few people don’t want their children indoctrinated with LGBTQ ideals. Sadly, this is only causing the deranged left to fight harder for the hearts, minds, and bodies of children.

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3. The LGBTQ camp wants their doctrine to be the law of the land.

The LGBTQ camp has another tactic up their sleeves — a bill in Congress that seeks to make LGBTQ “rights” more important than constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom rights.

The co-signers of HR 15 and S 1503, the Equality Act of 2025, account for 49.9% of Congress.

If passed, the misnamed “Equality Act” will specifically ELIMINATE religious accommodation, forcing even the most devout Christian to not only endorse but also participate in LGBTQ ideals.

“Queer” weddings and “drag queens” will have open season. Children will be forced to accept the LGBTQ doctrine that God makes mistakes by putting people in the wrong bodies. Female student athletes will be forced to concede to biological men stealing their scholarships and exposing their male genitals in school gym locker rooms and showers. And should you dare to speak out against this deviancy, YOU will face discrimination charges and be personally sued by the LGBTQ for daring to cling to your Bible.

Help us stop this madness NOW by demanding Congress VOTE NO on HR 15 & S 1503, the Equality Act of 2025.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel