nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/097cffc273eac6f0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250711s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/097cffc273eac6f0 doi eng 342 23 Camiscoli, Sarah Medina Author aut Laboratories of Authoritarianism - Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Decay of Democracy Camiscoli, Sarah Medina Verfassungsblog 2025-07-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the 1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause to grant conservative religious parents a constitutional right to remove their children from any classroom where a teacher includes LGBTQAI+ people in the curriculum. In effect, the Court has allowed public schools to discourage mutual tolerance, parents to opt out of Equal Protection, and fringe legal strategists to continue to use children’s constitutional rights as a test case for authoritarianism. In doing so, the erosion of children’s rights becomes the foundation upon which other rights are eroded. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarianism Free Speech LGBTQIA+ US Supreme Court USA. Supreme Court democracy freedom of religion (DE-588)35650-5 gnd USA. Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/mahmoud-taylor-authoritarianism/ raw object