Gary Bauer's End of Day Report

06-30-2025
I wanted a good laugh this weekend, so I spent some time reading Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in the parental rights case out of Montgomery County, Maryland. Sotomayor, who many see as the brightest of the three liberal justices, worries that the ruling will cause “chaos” in America’s public education system if we don’t guarantee that left-wing radicals can teach elementary school children about sodomy, drag queens, and transgenderism. She says you can’t allow parents to opt their children out of such lessons without causing harm to marginalized communities. If you allow parents to opt their children out of sodomy lessons, next they will insist on opting out of algebra. Let me remind you of just how extreme these lessons were.