The Supreme Court's Conservative majority signaled today that it will require schools to provide opt-outs for parents who have objections to LGBT-B-T-Q books read in elementary schools.

If they go that route, it would continue the court's years-long push to expand religious rights.

CNN's chief Supreme Court analyst Joan Baskupik is with us now on this.

Joan, these are parents in Maryland

who want to be able to pull their kids from class on days where there are lessons using books

with gay or transgender characters or themes in them. Tell us how the day went.

Sure, and you're right. Religious conservatives have been at a role at the Supreme Court,

and it looks like they're going to be able to notch another case.

It looks like the justices from the oral arguments that went for an unusually intense, passionate, two and a half hours this morning, Brianna.

It looks like they're going to rule with the parents who have challenged the Montgomery County, Maryland

school district, over books like The Night and the Prince or Uncle Bobby's wedding that the school

had said there's no opt-out provision. And during the course of the Q&A this morning, it emerged

that really Montgomery County stands

alone and not having any kind of opt-out provision.

And let me give you a flavor of some of the back and forth among the justices.

Over the discussion of Uncle Bobby's wedding, Justice Sam Alito said, it has a clear moral

message. It may be a good message.

It's just that it's a message that a lot of religious people disagree with.

And Justice Sotomayor then countered,

looking at two men getting married, is that a religious objection?

The most they're doing here is holding hands.

So they got down into the nitty-gritty of some of these books, but also the main thing

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