A United Kingdom professor says her office door was “covered in urine” after she criticized a proposal that would make it easier for people to change their gender. 

Rosa Freedman, a professor of law at Reading University, said she received threats and verbal abuse on social media and over the phone.

The government is considering changes to the Gender Recognition Act that would allow people to change their legal gender by mere self-identification. The current law allows a person to change his/her gender, although it’s more cumbersome. 

Freedman opposes the changes and says they would harm women’s rights. 

“I am deeply concerned by how the conflation of sex and gender is leading to subjugation of women and is undermining the specific protections guaranteed to women under international and national human rights law,” she has said. 

She was called a “Nazi” and told she “should be raped,” the BBC reported. 

“I’m pretty public and open about the fact that I’m Jewish,” Freedman said. “I’m pretty public and open about the fact I’ve survived sexual violence – I have been throughout these debates.

“So obviously being told I’m a Nazi and being told I’m transphobic when I’m not transphobic and nothing I’ve said or done is transphobic … having been told I should get raped. None of them are particularly…

A Virginia county school board’s push to remove the religious exemption for homeschoolers is alarming many of the state’s families, who say it could be a new way for the government to control what children are taught.  

The Loudoun County School Board considered the controversial language at its Nov. 28 meeting but eventually sent it back to a committee for further discussion, according to the Loudoun Times. 

At issue is a resolution that would ask the Virginia legislature to remove the religious exemption for homeschooling families. If the legislature took such an action, homeschooling would remain legal but would be subject to more government oversight.

“Don’t try to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. I ask you not to repeal the religious exemption,” Loudoun County citizen Paul Millhouse told the board during the meeting, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which reported on the resolution. 

More than 20 residents spoke out in opposition to the resolution.

“This action is very disturbing because it means that the school district wants new ways to control religious-exempt families,” said HSLDA senior counsel Scott Woodruff.

The resolution had passed Nov. 13, but the board voted Nov. 28 to send it back to the Legislative and Policy Committee. 

School board member Eric Hornberger said the state law needs to…

A California pastor who was jailed for holding a pro-life sign outside of an abortion clinic will be featured in a book about his experience.

In 2009, Walter Hoye was arrested on charges of harassment and breaking an Oakland city ordinance that prohibits protesters from coming within 8 feet of people trying to enter an abortion clinic.

He was a sidewalk counselor, holding a sign that said, “God loves you and your baby. Let us help you.”

“They stole a page from the book of Daniel,” Hoye said. “Daniel was guilty of nothing but praying three times a day. I was just simply standing on the sidewalk holding a sign, passing out literature like to a pregnancy care center and having a conversation and consequently they put me in jail over that.”

He was jailed, but his conviction was eventually overturned.

The book, The Incarceration and Exoneration of Walter B. Hoye by journalist Robert W. Artigo, details Hoye’s experience and how he used his time in jail to share the gospel with other inmates.

“We want to make sure that there are pro-lifers out there that realize that they do have the freedom of speech and they can literally stand on the sidewalk and help women going into an abortion clinic and free speech applies to everybody,” he said.

“It also is a message sent to the black church,” he said. “There are many of us that are pro-life that…

Wheaton College students claim that an African American pro-life activist made them feel “unsafe” and “unheard” while he spoke about abortion and racial justice during a campus forum. 

Wheaton College Republicans asked Ryan Bomberger to speak at “Black Lives Matter, In and Outside the Womb,” an event held on campus. 

Bomberger accepted the invitation and delivered a 50-minute presentation in which he discussed the impact abortions have on the black community. 

“Planned Parenthood was birthed in eugenic racism. They’ve never severed that timeline. They never severed that connection. How do you sever from your past if every year you give out the Margaret Sanger award? You don’t give out rewards for people you don’t hold in high regard,” he stated.

Following the presentation, a 30-minute Q&A session was held for the students which gave them a chance to ask questions. Bomberger stayed past the scheduled time in order to answer additional questions. 

Six days after the forum, Bomberger was denounced in an open letter by Student Body President Lauren Rowley, Student Body Vice President Tyler Waaler and EVP of Community Diversity Sammie Shields. In the letter, which was written to the university, the students criticized Bomberger’s visit writing,

“The speaker…made several comments at the event that deeply troubled…

A Michigan ‘civil rights’ group is threatening to sue the Newaygo Public School District if they do not remove a Wise Men and a star display from the top of an elementary school building.

According to CBN News, the Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists (MACRA) put the county on notice after allegedly getting a complaint from a resident.

Mitch Kale of MACRA insisted that display was a clear violation of the Constitution and noted, “We’ve asked the school to remove what is in essence a nativity scene, from the top of the school, and from school property.” 

He continued, “If this were on private property it wouldn’t be an issue.”

CBN reports that the school district’s Superintendent Peggy Mathis, argued in a now-deleted Facebook post, that the display was not really meant to be religious.

She wrote, “Newaygo Public Schools has a legitimate secular purpose for the display. We are both upholding the community’s tradition of celebrating a public holiday and attempting to point towards the importance of wisdom, knowledge, and open-mindedness.”

According to a local news station, 9 & 10 News, most citizens in the small town want the display to stay as it has been Newaygo Christmas tradition for over 70 years.

“It’s just a symbol of our community,” Newaygo resident Amy Postma told Eastern Michigan’s 9 & 10 News. “It’s always been there, and we love it….

Austin, Texas churches may be required to hire homosexual and transgender employees if a city ordinance is implemented.

Under the ordinance, the city would guarantee “the opportunity for each person to obtain employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.”

“Nondiscrimination is a core value in Austin and we need to defend it,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler told KXAN-TV.

In response, the U.S. Pastor Council and the Texas Values organization are suing the city of Austin over the ordinance. The groups are arguing that the city code forces churches to act against their religious beliefs. They are asking the city to apply exceptions to religious groups.

“The bottom line is that a threat to any of our Constitutional protections is a threat to all of our Constitutional rights,” said Texas Pastor Council President Dave Welch.

“Forcing churches to violate core convictions is not acceptable,” he added. “Once government does so, all of our Constitutional protections are essentially gone – all gone, for all of us, across all America.”

However, a city of Austin spokesperson said the city would defend the ordinance.

“The City is proud of our anti-discrimination ordinance and the protections it provides. The ordinance reflects our values and culture respecting the dignity and…