The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that the Constitution and federal law prevail over any contrary state law. A state can grant more rights but cannot take away rights granted by federal law.

But the state of Oregon doesn’t care. The state passed its own version of the so-called “Equality Act” in 2007, forcing men into women and girls’ sports and accommodations, whether they like it or not.

Now this law is being used to force boys and grown men into little girls’ cabins on school camping trips.

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Eleven-year-old Ella was excited to attend Oregon’s Northwest Outdoor Science School this summer. In a summer-camp-like atmosphere, elementary and middle-school children receive hands on biology lessons during the day and camp in cabins at night.

But thanks to Oregon’s Equality Act, Ella would be forced to sleep in a cabin with boys, as well as high school, college, and adult male camp counselors.

Ella’s parents complained, reminding school administrators that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects women’s access. But while the administrators acknowledged Title IX, they insisted that Oregon’s Equality Act trumps federal law.

If Ella wanted to attend summer science camp, her parents must be willing to let Ella sleep in the same tent with boys and grown men.

But the school district’s “woke” stance defies federal law.

• Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 requires federally funded schools to create spaces for women in sports and education. 
• President Trump’s executive order #14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” expressly states that biological men SHALL NOT be allowed in women’s private spaces, including bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and even sleeping spaces. 

It is disturbing that a school district is unfamiliar with or openly hostile to the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. But now that Liberty Counsel is on the case, we will be reminding the Oregon City School District that, thanks to the Supremacy Clause, federal law supersedes Oregon’s state Equality Act.

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Now some in Congress want to impose Oregon’s gender-bending social engineering on the rest of the country, through HR 15.

On the National Day of Prayer, 214 U.S. House and 47 U.S. Senate Democrats co-sponsored the “Equality Act.” While America was honoring God, Congressional Democrats were honoring perversion. HR 15 seeks to:

• Overturn every ban on men in women’s locker rooms, showers, and private spaces.
• Destroy Title IX by forcing men into women’s sports and educational and scholarship opportunities.
• Overturn city and state obscenity laws that ban obscene drag queen burlesque and strip shows for children.
• Federally ban Christian change counseling for patients seeking to heal gender dysphoria and unwanted unnatural desires.
• Specifically revoke Section 1107 of the Civil Rights Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which in turn:
  • Forces churches and Christian schools to hire transvestites, pedophiles, and promote LGBTQ ideals.
  • Forces ALL businesses and individuals to set aside their religious freedom beliefs and rights to instead promote LGBTQ ideals.

In the 1970s and 80s, the homosexual community insisted they were not “after our kids,” suggesting that any claims to the contrary were ridiculous hysterics and harmful stereotypes.

But in the time since, the LGBTQ agenda has expanded to include “T” for trans and “Q” for queer. By definition, queer covers more than 550 sexual deviancies known as paraphilias, including bestiality, necrophilia, and even pedophilia.

Now, even as the trans community crawls the internet seeking to recruit young boys and girls into their warped gender ideology, the Q community is focused on getting grown men into little girls’ summer camp cabins.

If Congress adopts Oregon’s deviant Equality Act, little girls like Ella will be forced to put up with men in their private spaces, or be left out of school functions all together.

Protect America’s girls! Demand Congress VOTE NO on HR 15 and S 1503, the federal “Equality Act.”

Finally, please continue praying in the spirit of 2 Chronicles 7:14. I believe our nation is at a turning point in this epic battle for the souls, bodies, and minds of our children. As often happens, the battle gets harder just before victory. Keep praying; we shall prevail!

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

 
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SOURCES:

““H.R.15 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Equality Act.” Congress.gov. Accessed May 12, 2025. Congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/15/.

“S.1503 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Equality Act.” Congress.gov. Accessed May 12, 2025. Congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1503.

“SB2 2007 Regular Session - Oregon Legislative Information System.” Oregonlegislature.gov, Accessed May 13, 2025. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2007R1/Measures/Overview/SB2.

‌“What Is the ‘Q’ in LGBTQ?” Liberty Counsel. Accessed May 12, 2025. LC.org/Site%20Images/Resources/LC-Q-in-LGBTQ.pdf.