Civil Rights
Mar. 9, 2020
LA parents’ group seeks equal rights between LGBTQ students and classmates with religious differences
Left Out, an unincorporated, nonprofit, parent association, is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District on the grounds that a letter sent informing parents they don’t have the right to pull their children out of certain new sex education classes violates state law and constitutional religious rights.
Parents who notified the Los Angeles Unified School District to remove their children from comprehensive sex education were informed in a letter last fall the right to opt out does not apply to class discussions of gender, sexual orientation and family life.
A resulting lawsuit filed March 2 argues the school district's policy aimed at protecting LGBTQ students violates the religious rights of other students by requiring them to at...
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