U.S. Department of Education Investigating Four Kansas School Districts for Secret “Gender Transitions”

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The U.S. Department of Education says it is investigating four school districts in Kansas for alleged secret gender transitions after a complaint by the organization Defense of Freedom Institute.

The complaint alleges that school officials in Topeka, Shawnee Mission, Olathe, and Kansas City let male students into females’ private spaces and sports at school and hid students’ sexual identity confusion from their parents.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time schools in America have been accused of secretly encouraging students to “socially transition” at school. Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have spoken repeatedly about this very issue.

Fortunately, Arkansas has enacted good laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom. Arkansas has successfully passed legislation protecting children from gender transition statewide. And the U.S. Department of Education has also rolled back pro-LGBT federal policies enacted under the Biden Administration. All of that is good news.

We deeply appreciate our elected leaders and policymakers who work hard to stand up for students both in Arkansas and across the country.

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Will the U.S. Supreme Court Revisit Same-Sex Marriage?

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News outlets report the U.S. Supreme Court may review the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that overturned state marriage laws and instituted same-sex marriage nationwide.

Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis — who has been taken to court for declining to issue same-sex marriage licenses — is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is also challenging the essence of the Obergefell ruling.

ABC News reports:

She [Kim Davis] claims the high court’s decision in Obergefell — extending marriage rights for same-sex couples under the 14th Amendment’s due process protections — was “egregiously wrong.”

“The mistake must be corrected,” wrote Davis’ attorney Mathew Staver in the petition. He calls Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell “legal fiction.”

The petition appears to mark the first time since 2015 that the court has been formally asked to overturn the landmark marriage decision. Davis is seen as one of the only Americans currently with legal standing to bring a challenge to the precedent.

Back in 2015, we said that Obergefell was about a lot more than just same-sex marriage. The bigger question has always been about how marriage will be defined in America and who gets to write that definition. From 2004 to 2015, voters in more than three-fifths of the country democratically passed laws and amendments defining marriage in their respective states. In most cases, those measures defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Voters in three states chose to define marriage differently. The court’s Obergefell decision struck down every one of those state marriage laws.

In 2020, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito made blunt statements that Obergefell has had “ruinous consequences for religious liberty,” saying it lets courts and governments label people who believe in traditional marriage “as bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss.”

Support for same-sex marriage has actually declined in recent years. Reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision may not seem likely right now, but the same thing seemed true of Roe v. Wade 50 years ago.

The reality is Obergefell was a deeply flawed decision in 2015. It’s still a deeply flawed decision today. And as Justices Thomas and Alito said in 2020, “the Court has created a problem that only it can fix.”

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