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.
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Banning Books for liberals is back on the menu
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
He should have had the anthology, titled He is He, She is She, Together They Are Them. That way he would have been okay😁
Then they would have an issue with Mr. Rogers, it seems.
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.
TRUTH books
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
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