The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case about a group of Maryland parents suing the Montgomery County School Board over the right to opt their children out of learning from LGBTQ-themed storybooks in elementary language arts instruction.

The Supreme Court signaled on Tuesday that it would side with a group of religious parents who oppose a Maryland school district’s use of LGBT-themed children’s books in its reading curriculum. Most of the justices in the court’s conservative majority reacted with varying levels of disdain to the idea of requiring students to be exposed to such books and seemed eager to expand religious parents’ ability to opt their children out of public