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Remember the old Jeff Foxworthy game show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" Adults would compete against 5th graders on general knowledge questions that an 11 year-old would be expected to know the answer to. The SCOTUS has revised it and brought it down to a much younger level. They failed to read and understand a book for pre-schoolers through second graders.

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The children’s book “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” is 32 pages long — shorter if you don’t count the title page and cover. Its author Sarah S. Brannen wrote the picture book for children between the ages of 4 and 7, making it appropriate for students at a kindergarten reading level.

Yet six Supreme Court justices apparently misconstrued its meaning.

That’s according to dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor — backed up by the author herself in an interview with All Rise News.

Justice Samuel Alito and his conservative peers suggested that the book’s young girl Chloe might be uncomfortable with her Uncle Bobby getting married because his longtime boyfriend Jamie is a man, but Brannen says that’s false.

“I always said that the book would be identical if Bobby were marrying a woman named Jamie,” Brannen said in a phone interview hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling. “The story is about a family. The fact that the men are gay is not what the book is about. It’s part of the fabric of the big, wide, diverse country that we live in.”

The ruling is not a defense of religion it is an attack on diversity.

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