Montgomery, Ala. (WDNews) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined 16 other state attorneys general in backing South Carolina’s law that limits public schools from teaching what they describe as “racially or sexually divisive ideologies.”
“Public schools are funded by the public to serve the public’s interest,” Marshall stated. “But as elected officials in Alabama, South Carolina, and elsewhere have recognized, many of these schools have been using taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate children in divisive and destructive radical ideologies. States have the constitutional authority to put a stop to that sort of indoctrination.”
The coalition filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit brought by the South Carolina NAACP, two authors, a teacher, and a group of students, who argue the law violates their First Amendment rights. The attorneys general, however, say the issue boils down to the role of state government in public education…