Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution.
The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will provide the correct answer, falls under the headline of sex education.
The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which families from a variety of faiths — Muslims, Jews, Christians — are fighting imposition by the Board of Education in Montgomery County, Maryland, requirements that children learn material about gender ideology.
Per the Becket Fund, which is representing these families, the schools have some 20 books as part of their curriculum that “champion pride parades, gender transitioning, and pronoun preferences for children.”
We’re talking about material that seeks to legitimize the notion of gender ambiguity and…
