Free Exercise Meets Parental Rights in the US Supreme Court [God, Law, and Liberty]

SCOTUS will soon hear oral arguments in a case brought by parents challenging a Maryland law that requires elementary school children to "participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents' religious convictions and with-out notice or opportunity to opt out." The argument for the law's unconstitutioinality is grounded in the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. Today, David explains why that clause is used when its original purpose has nothing to do with cases of this kind.