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Oregon educator was told to remove ‘He is He’ and ‘She is She’ books from display. He claims that violated his rights
Oregon Live ^ | 8/14/2025 | Lucas Hellberg

Posted on 08/19/2025 10:01:51 AM PDT by simpson96

PENDLETON — An eastern Oregon educator is suing his employer, alleging an order to remove anti-trans children’s books from his desk violated his constitutional rights.

Education specialist Rod Theis filed the federal lawsuit in May against the InterMountain Education Service District. He claims the district ordered him to remove two children’s books — “He is He” and “She is She” — from his desk. Theis asserts the two books explain that every child should love and accept themselves as God intended.

Theis alleges the district violated his rights to free speech under the First Amendment and equal protection under the 14th Amendment because the restriction is overbroad, not content-neutral and expresses hostility toward his religious-based viewpoints.

“Our legal system is built on the truth that the government can’t silence a speaker just because it disapproves of what he says,” his attorney Tyson Langhofer said in a statement.


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: books; homosexualagenda; homosexualpolicy; intercession; lgbt; lgbtq; library; oregon; romans1; xyxx

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To: simpson96

Banning Books for liberals is back on the menu


21 posted on 08/19/2025 11:55:59 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: simpson96

Oregon educator was told to remove ‘He is He’ and ‘She is She’ books.

Reeducation

Dumnbing down

Child Grooming
Need laws to prevent that training program


22 posted on 08/19/2025 12:05:57 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: simpson96

He should have had the anthology, titled He is He, She is She, Together They Are Them. That way he would have been okay😁


23 posted on 08/19/2025 1:01:34 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: simpson96

Then they would have an issue with Mr. Rogers, it seems.


24 posted on 08/19/2025 1:18:32 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I know it’s triggering to the left. Mr. Rogers completely overlooks the possibility that there are Trans kids out there.

I hate to speak ill of the dead, but Fred Rogers was on the liberal side of the spectrum. I'd expect that he'd have drifted on the 'trans' issue were he here today. I hate to think about it, but he'd disclaim his earlier statements, and probably apologize for them.

25 posted on 08/19/2025 1:21:36 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: SaveFerris

TRUTH books


26 posted on 08/19/2025 5:49:37 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ViLaLuz
Yes!!

Those pesky Words of the Lord Jesus Christ in RED ...

Matthew 19:4
Amplified Bible


4 He replied, “Have you never read that
He Who created them from the beginning
made them MALE and FEMALE,


https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019%3A4&version=AMP

🛐🛐🛐🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
27 posted on 08/19/2025 5:59:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Matthew 19:4
English Standard Version

4 He answered, “Have you not read
that He Who created them
from the Beginning made them
MALE and FEMALE,

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019%3A4&version=ESV


Genesis 1:27
English Standard Version

27 So God created man in His Own image,

in the image of God He created him;
MALE and FEMALE He created them

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A27&version=ESV


28 posted on 08/19/2025 6:01:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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