Glenn Beck's interview with President Donald Trump is live from the White House today, and it's sure to be a big one. Glenn also talks about Dyes being banned from our food supply, Supreme Court cases, and what your kids should be taught in public school. And we preview a big interview Glenn is about to do with President Trump.
00:03:48.240I mean, with SCOTUS, a battle for the kid.
00:03:51.680The soul of our children began yesterday in the Supreme Court.
00:03:55.760The case involves a group of parents suing the largest school district in Maryland for their white right to withdraw their children from classes on days that books with gay and transgender characters themes are discussed.
00:04:08.240The parents are suing on religious freedom grounds.
00:04:11.680In 2022, Montgomery County Public Schools added LGBTQ themed books to their curriculum for students from pre-K through the fifth grade.
00:04:22.560The books include things like Pride Puppy, an alphabet book about a family whose puppy gets lost at a pride parade.
00:04:30.960Love and Violet, about a girl who has a crush on her female classmate.
00:04:35.620These are pre-K to fifth grade and Born Ready, about a transgender boy.
00:04:41.700Again, these books added to pre-K to fifth grade.
00:04:45.460This new curriculum is DEI for elementary children.
00:04:50.020Now, at first, the Maryland School District allowed or alerted parents when the storybooks were going to be used in class and allowed them to have their children excused from the sessions.
00:04:59.780But the district has since stopped giving both advance notice and an opt-out policy saying it's too hard to administer.
00:05:10.800And it leads to lots of absences and stigmatizes some kids.
00:05:15.940I want you to know this case is not about a few storybooks, a few colorful, you know, pictures of little puppies getting lost.
00:05:24.580It's about whether you, as a parent, still have a God-given right to raise your children according to your faith and your values and your common sense.
00:05:38.680Because if the Supreme Court says, no, you don't have that right anymore.
00:05:43.640If the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause doesn't protect this, your right as a parent, then what are all our rights even for?
00:05:56.320If we don't have a right as a parent to parent our children, none of the rights really even matter.
00:06:02.240Now, the parents who are suing insist that these books, quote, promote one-sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning, and focus excessively on romantic infatuation.
00:06:15.440By the way, the parents are not seeking to remove the books from classrooms or the children's libraries.
00:06:22.300They just don't want their children to have to sit through these indoctrination sessions.
00:08:05.640It definitely seemed like the conservative justices were a bit skeptical of the idea that you get to force parents to keep their kids in these classes, even if they oppose it, when you're reading these books.
00:08:23.280But, you know, of course, you never know.
00:08:24.680We've seen crazy things happen in the Supreme Court before.
00:08:28.940What's fascinating to me is, and what's the motivation here, Glenn?
00:08:33.240If you're going to have one of these situations where you have these books, and as you point out, they are not like, okay, there happens to be a gay character in a book about something else.
00:08:43.980It is like straight out books about why you should think these lifestyles and choices are okay.
00:08:52.180It is straight out what they're doing.
00:08:54.000To pre-K to fifth graders, so really, really young.
00:08:57.760This is not like, you know, some of these situations, they like to push out there, like, oh, you don't want high schoolers to read these books.
00:09:04.680It's not even what they're talking about.
00:09:06.680And what could be the motivation of not allowing parents to opt their kids out here?
00:10:39.340Now, we found that a little, you know, that's when the angels should have went and went, you know, I don't know if we found the right guy here.
00:12:26.200You need to make sure that you're participating in the traditional greetings of that society.
00:12:33.460This is a philosophy that has no forgiveness, and you're either on board or you're not.
00:12:41.920You're either 100% in, or you're an outcast, and you will comply.
00:12:49.880This is what the left just doesn't understand.
00:12:53.140I shouldn't say, the left understands this.
00:12:55.380The average Democrat doesn't understand.
00:12:57.520They think, because the average Democrat, I think, is still kind of thinking, well, you know, I mean, I don't like all of that, but I want to be tolerant.
00:13:26.280Yeah, I love, too, one of their outs on this from the left is basically to say, look, if you don't want your kids to learn this stuff, then you should homeschool or put your kids in Christian schools.
00:13:38.720Now, of course, it's actually Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
00:13:42.000One of the lead defendants here is a Muslim, actually, is trying to pull their kids out of this, and they have, which is a fascinating argument from the left, considering how hard they fought against school choice all this time.
00:13:56.800I mean, they have tried to prevent it, they've tried to prevent the rights for you to educate your own kids, and they're trying to force you to pay for that education, not once, but twice.
00:14:10.120Like, if you don't want to learn what we're teaching you, then you get to pay twice as much for an education you're going to get outside of these walls.
00:14:19.560I will tell you that I talked to some people over the last couple of days up here.
00:14:26.020Some of them with the Department of Education, and they are thrilled to dismantle that thing.
00:14:31.280They are very, very excited to dismantle the Department of Education.
00:14:36.320They're on the inside, and they're like, it's freaking them out, and we're shutting this thing down.
00:14:42.580And it couldn't be more exhilarating, quite honestly.
00:14:46.180I mean, tell me what the Department of Education has done.
00:14:48.660Look at how they're taking on private schools, and they're saying you don't have a right to private education,
00:14:55.140or you have a right, but we're not going to give you any vouchers.