When “fwdude” mentioned Bend, I think of my children’s experience. The daughter in law went to local conference where she asked a Bend school principal about the public schools there. He said he would never send his children to a public school there.
At their local church a couple was told their son entering middle school would benefit from attending the LGBTQ, etc. club. They said no thank you and received repeated phone calls about the subject. They finally asked to attend a meeting or see the curriculum and were told they could not. At that point they received a call form the State expressing their concern. The couple quit their jobs, sold their house, and moved out of state. My son visited one of the schools and saw posters displaying what he considered cutting edge grooming language.
Bend was also one of the staging areas of protests against illegal alien transports by ICE several years ago (under Trump.) Protesters rioted, blocked buses and caused general nastiness in the city, with no consequences to them. I was shocked to hear this because when I visited several years earlier, it seemed like a fairly conservative area.
The Christian ministry I follow (Berean Call) is based there, and they always held their annual conference at the main conference center in town, a roomy venue. A few years ago, they announced that the conference would be held off site at an affiliated church, with much less room to accommodate the attendees and further from lodging and restaurants. I’m almost certain that the venue barred them from further rental of the facility because TBC was staunchly conservative, biblical, and opposed same-sex “marriage.” After the court cases redefining marriage, they were no longer welcome in public facilities.