TRO Issued In Challenge to Md. Sex-Ed Curriculum

Yesterday, a federal district judge issued a temporary restraining order against the Montgomery County Public Schools to prevent them from implementing their new sex education curriculum (see prior post). Finding, among other things, that plaintiff's Establishment Clause claim had merit, the Court in its Memorandum Opinion said:

"The Revised Curriculum plainly portrays Baptist churches as wrongly expressing the same intolerance [sic.] attitude towards homosexuals today as they did towards African Americans during segregation. ... [It] also implies that the Baptist Church's position on homosexuality is theologically flawed.... Most disturbingly, the Revised Curriculum juxtaposes this portrait of an intolerant and Biblically misguided Baptist Church against other, preferred Churches, which are more friendly towards the homosexual lifestyle."