Supreme Court on Books and HIV
Public schools in Maryland must allow parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes in which storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes are discussed, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
The school system defended the curriculum, telling the justices in a brief that it featured “a handful of storybooks featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer characters for use in the language-arts curriculum, alongside the many books already in the curriculum that feature heterosexual characters in traditional gender roles.”
In another ruling the Supreme Court upheld a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to offer some kinds of preventive care for free.
The majority ruled that a federal task force that determines which preventive health measures insurance companies must cover at no cost to the insured was constitutional.