Over 50 Republican lawmakers have signed onto an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Maryland parents in their fight to opt out of left-wing gender ideology and sexually explicit content in public schools, the Daily Caller reported on Tuesday.

The brief, to be filed later on Tuesday, was signed by 17 Republican senators and 46 GOP representatives and argues that the local school board “lacks a compelling governmental justification to violate the parents’ First Amendment religious freedom rights.” 

The filing was led by Bill Cassidy, R-La., chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.

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