Minnesota School District Affirms Students’ Right to Walk Out of LGBT Lesson

A 40-page demand letter from Liberty Counsel, a national Christian advocacy organization, persuaded a Minnesota school system to acknowledge the rights of teachers, parents, and high school students to opt out of a lesson celebrating and honoring the LGBT lifestyle. The lesson, called “LGBTQIA+ History and Culture,” is scheduled to be taught to high schoolers during the first week of April. Liberty Counsel became involved at the request of local parents and teachers who were concerned about the upcoming activity, describing it as “one-sided LGBT political indoctrination.” A group of teachers said that they objected to teaching the lesson on religious grounds and feared retaliation for refusing to do so....