Parents Object to LGBTQ Books - Bloomberg Law

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Apr 23, 2025 Bloomberg Law
First Amendment law expert Caroline Mala Corbin, a professor at the University of Miami Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments over some parent’s objections to LGBTQ themed books in an elementary school curriculum. Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses whether President Trump has the power to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. June Grasso hosts.

The discussion about Mahmoud v. Taylor is for the first 26 or so minutes. Professor Corbin makes MANY excellent points in this interview, such as:

(13:02) ...there was one line of questioning...what if parents object to interracial marriages?...What about if some object to interfaith marriages? What if some belong to religions that oppose having women who work outside the home? Are they now entitled to notice any time there is a social studies class or a literature class that features a woman who's worked outside of the home?

(24:10) ...part of the mission of public schools is to teach children how to get along with all different kinds of people, and they're making that less than impossible if they say that there are some kinds of people who are so awful that it violates people's religion to even hear about them without getting a moral lesson about how they're going to hell.

At some point, religious beliefs begin to be more about the believer than the target.

A full transcript is here.