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Sotomayor and Alito engage in testy exchange as SCOTUS mulls parental opt-outs of LGBTQ lessons

April 23, 2025 | | Print Article

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor briefly sparred during Tuesday’s arguments in a case about whether parents should be allowed to opt-out their children from lessons focusing on homosexuality in elementary school classrooms.

In a prime example of how left-wing ideology has taken precedence over constitutional concerns and sound jurisprudence with Democrat-appointed justices, the “wise Latina” snapped at her conservative colleague and tried to cut him off as Alito was speaking, prompting a testy exchange.

“There is a growing heat to the exchanges between the justices. Sotomayor just tried to disagree with Alito’s portrayal, and Alito pushed back and asked to allow him to finish,” constitutional law scholar Professor Jonathan Turley wrote on X.

The spat occurred as the SCOTUS heard arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case that could inflict a major blow on the left’s indoctrination of the young and vulnerable into the LGBTQ lifestyle, including the reading of some books with graphic depictions of homosexual activity. The case was brought by a group of Maryland parents who seek to opt their children out on religious objections to the material which they say is conflicting with their faith.

Sotomayor asked the plaintiffs’ attorney, Eric Baxter, about a book with a same-sex relationship theme titled “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” and whether exposing young children to homosexual relationships in books targeted at their age group could be coercive.

“Our parents would object to that,” Baxter answered as the Obama appointee kept probing about the objection to the material. “Our objections would be even to reading books that violate our client’s religious beliefs,” the attorney added.

Justice Alito then got in some questions on the controversial book.

“I’ve read that book as well as a lot of these other books,” he began. “Do you think it’s fair to say that all that is done in ‘Uncle Bobby’s Wedding’ is to expose children to the fact that there are men who marry other men?”

After the attorney objected to the question, the George W. Bush appointee said “that while the book ‘has a clear message and a lot of people think it’s a good message,’ some with ‘traditional religious beliefs don’t agree with’ it,” according to Fox News.

As Alito was continuing, Sotomayor cut him off.

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“What a minute. The reservation is—” she said.

“Can I finish?” the perturbed Alito then asked before finishing. “It has a clear moral message, and it may be a good message. It’s just a message that a lot of religious people disagree with,” he said.

The coalition of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim parents of elementary school children in Montgomery County Public Schools sued after the school board introduced the books into its curriculum to promote its “inclusivity” initiative.

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