The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a challenge to a wealthy Washington, D.C. suburb's refusal to let religious parents opt out their children as young as 3 from instruction in "Pride storybooks" or notify them when the material – includes sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions and elementary-age same-sex romance – would be taught.

The case united Muslims, Christians and Jews against Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools, "the most religiously diverse county in the United States," with the Council on American-Islamic Relations organizing protests against the policy.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the school district on the basis that the English Language Arts lessons did not force anyone “to change their religious beliefs or conduct" in violation of the 1972 SCOTUS precedent Yoder.

The district's position and rationale has fluctuated, twice claiming months apart that it would notify parents and let them opt out their children, then reversing itself a day after the second assertion by claiming that because the lessons were not part of sex education, they were exempt from state law on notice and opt-out.

“Cramming down controversial gender ideology on three-year-olds without their parents’ permission is an affront to our nation’s traditions, parental rights, and basic human decency,” said Eric Baxter, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. “The Court must make clear: parents, not the state, should be the ones deciding how and when to introduce their children to sensitive issues about gender and sexuality.”

"The Court must make clear: parents, not the state, should be the ones deciding how and when to introduce their children to sensitive issues about gender and sexuality," he said in Becket's response to SCOTUS taking the case.