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There’s this game being played where, somehow, mere exposure to a book with a same-sex couple is forbidden indoctrination, while active, coercive proselytization of students in one particular faith is not a problem at all.

While homosexuality is not illegal in the country, it remains taboo, and same-sex marriage is not legally recognised.

These included books like Uncle Bobby’s Wedding and My Rainbow—stories that portray same-sex couples, gender nonconformity, and affirming representations of queer families.

They argued that compulsory exposure to messages about gender identity and same-sex relationships placed a burden on their religious beliefs and interfered with their constitutionally protected right to direct the upbringing of their children.

Alito, in particular, pressed the school district’s counsel with pointed skepticism, suggesting that requiring a devout Muslim child to sit through a story celebrating a same-sex wedding might constitute the kind of coercion the First Amendment forbids.