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Two Oregon school districts are cancelling their participation in a state reading competition due to organizers’ inclusion of a “children’s book” about transgenderism. The annual Oregon Battle of the Books consists of students reading from a list of books, organizing into teams, and then competing in quizzes about the books’ content. This year, however, a group of Hermiston School District principals decided that third, fourth, and fifth graders should not participate, the Oregonian   reported . The Cascade School District   concurred  soon after. A third, Bend-La Pine Schools , is not pulling out but  will begin  requiring parental permission for elementary-level participants. At issue is the book “ George ” by self-described "queer activist" Alex Gino , whose titular main character is a 10-year-old boy who feels like a girl and starts calling himself “Melissa.” In 2015, the Scholastic Corporation sent teachers and school librarians 10,000 cop...

Washington , D.C. just began allowing residents to list their gender as 'X' on their driver's licenses to accommodate people who think they are genderless. But the REAL ID Act , which was passed after 9/11 and enacted in 2005, "specifically requires gender on each driver’s license and identification card issued to a person by a state,"  Judicial Watch explained . The law "prohibits federal agencies from accepting for official purposes licenses and identification cards that do not meet these standards." The person's gender must be listed on "each driver’s license and identification card issued to a person by the state," according to the law. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau of ward 1 introduced the legislation. Oregon is the only other place in the U.S. where people are able to obtain "gender-neutral" driver's licenses.  "The famously corrupt local government surrounding the nation’s capital is offering gende...

GRESHAM, OR, -  The State agency that   ordered an Oregon Christian couple to pay   two lesbians $135,000 for   refusing to take part   in their homosexual “wedding” has begun legal proceedings to seize the couple’s assets. Aaron and Melissa Klein, of   Sweet Cakes by Melissa , were fined by an administrative judge this past spring after declining in January 2013 to bake a cake for the same-sex event based on their religious beliefs. The fine had been ordered by The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries , which had accused them of violating   the Oregon Equality Act of 2007. “Our agency has docketed the judgment and is exploring collection options,” said Charlie Burr, communications director for the Bureau, The Daily Signal   reports . Docketing the judgment means putting it on the formal records of the court, and is the first step the Bureau must take in the course of seizing the Kleins’ house, property, or other assets...

English: Steeple of St. James Catholic Church in Chicago, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) An Oregon Catholic school modified its employment policy and is now allowing employees to stay on board while claiming to be married to members of the same sex, placing it at odds with the Catholic Church and Catholic institutions elsewhere in the U.S. taking steps to strengthen Catholic identity. The Board of Directors for St. Mary's Academy in Portland voted August 26 to add sexual orientation to its equal employment policy, "to amend and broaden St. Mary's policy on equal employment," and bring it "in line" with the school's "mission and beliefs."  While its action is incongruous with Catholic principles, the Board said in its announcement   that the school remains deeply committed to its Catholic identity. "St. Mary's is a diverse community that welcomes and includes gay and lesbian students, faculty, alumnae, parents and fri...

A prominent Christian activist is sounding the alarm about what he sees as Walmart ’s “increasing capitulation” to the homosexual agenda , and calling on concerned citizens to contact the corporation to complain. Peter LaBarbera , president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), alleged in a press release that Walmart is “going gay” in response to increasing public pressure from homosexual activists, donating thousands of dollars to pro-gay political groups and extending benefits to its employees’ same-sex “domestic partners.” LaBarbera particularly objected to a grant of between $25,000 and $50,000 that the company gave to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund – a group that funds openly homosexual candidates for political office – and accused Walmart of turning its back on traditional values to pander to a vocal minority of homosexual activists. “Giving corporate dollars to ‘gay/trans’ groups like GLVF helps Walmart increase its score on the rigged ‘ Corporate ...

PORTLAND, OR , February 11, 2014– A Portland catering company is being sued for $518,000 by a former employee who alleges her coworkers would not stop referring to her as a woman even after she asked them to stop, reports  The Oregonian . Valeria Jones, the lawsuit’s plaintiff, identifies herself as “gender neutral,” according to the suit.  When she applied to work at the Bon Appetit Management Company , a corporate catering service , she says she purposely left the boxes beside “male” and female” on the application form unchecked, but the company never mentioned the omission.  Jones claims her coworkers repeatedly referred to her as “miss,” “lady,” and “little lady” even after she told them she believes she is “not a female or a male” and asked them to use gender neutral words when speaking to or about her.  According to the suit, her coworkers failed to do so, insisting that she “looked like a woman” and comparing her to a female celebrity whom they beli...

P ORTLAND, OR, September 4, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Portland bar owner will have to pay a $400,000 fine for kicking out a group of cross-dressers whom he says were ruining his business. Chris Penner, the owner of the Twilight Room Annex, has to pay 11 transgender patrons the hefty sum after asking them to stop coming to his bar. Mike Zacchino/The Oregonian Penner  said  female patrons complained that the transgender men went to the restroom with the stall doors open, then left the toilet seats up when they were finished. “I feel for this bar owner. Obviously these gender-confused men who want to be 'women' were causing him to lose customers with their outrageous behavior,” Peter LaBarbera , president of  Americans For Truth About Homosexuality , told LifeSiteNews.com. “Now he's been hit with a massive fine courtesy of discriminatory pro- LGBT laws .” Penner left a voicemail asking the men, who call themselves the T-Girls, to stop coming to his bar (t...

Warning: This story includes vulgar language as quoted in an e-mail from an extremist homosexual rights group. PORTLAND, OREGON , April 27, 2012, – The group that allegedly smashed up a Portland church hopes its “small act of vengeance will strike fear into the hearts of” Christian leaders who teach traditional sexual morality, according to an e-mail message the group released to the public. A group calling itself “Angry Queers ” has claimed responsibility for  throwing baseball-sized rocks through nine church windows  in Portland’s Mars Hill Church , including two 100-year-old stained glass panes. Two versions of the e-mail have been sent to the media, one longer and slightly more incendiary than the other, but both apparently originating from the same group. In the longer version, the LGBT activists state they destroyed church property in the names of several local transgender people who have died, and “all other trans women” whose deaths they blame on “this  cis...