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We’re being forced to change our beliefs, says Christian GP fired over transgender viewsWe’re being forced to change our beliefs, says Christian GP fired over transgender views (msn.com) beliefs, says Christian GP fired over transgender views Steve Bird 6 days ago Like11 Comments| 3 %7B Australia live news updates: Victoria records 20 Covid deaths and NSW 12; Mark… %7B Gisele Bündchen shows off her VERY taut abs while jogging on vacation A doctor sacked from his job for refusing to call a transgender woman “she” is taking his case to the High Court claiming those with “gender-critical beliefs” are being “coerced and threatened”. %7B© Provided by The Telegraph Dr David Mackereth Dr David Mackereth was dismissed in 2018 as a disability assessor for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) after refusing to renounce his Christian belief that gender is determined biologically at birth. He told a manager that he would not call a transgender woman a “she”, adding that his faith meant he could not describe “any 6ft tall bearded man [as] madam’.” The following year, the Reformed Baptist went to an employment tribunal in Birmingham, claiming that he was unfairly dismissed because of his Christain beliefs. He claimed that the DWP’s refusal to allow him to address a client by their biological sex breached his rights to freedom of thought, conscience and rights to practise his religion. The medic told the hearing that he accepted transgender individuals “may find my views to be offensive”, but he had no intention of upsetting people but believed God made humans men or women. However, tribunal judges sitting in October 2019 concluded Dr Mackereth’s Christian belief was not protected by the Equality Act 2010, but was instead “mere opinion” so the DWP had not discriminated against him. They concluded that “his beliefs were likely to cause offence and have the effect of violating a transgender person’s dignity or creating a proscribed environment, or subjecting a transgender person to less favourable treatment”. %7B© Provided by The Telegraph Maya Forstater - Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph Now, Dr Mackereth and the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting his challenge, believe that a recent landmark ruling in favour of Maya Forstater will help them overturn his tribunal ruling in the High Court next month. Ms Forstater was sacked from her job at a think tank for saying people cannot change their biological sex. Although she lost her case at tribunal, she won a High Court appeal in 2019 when a judge found gender-critical beliefs fell under the Equalities Act, in part because they “did not seek to destroy the rights of trans persons”. The judge concluded her belief that sex is immutable was a philosophical position protected under equality laws because it fell far short of being an oppressive view, such as Nazism or totalitarianism, intended to harm others. Andrea Williams, the chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said that if Dr Mackereth’s original tribunal ruling was upheld, it would have “seismic consequences not just for the NHS and for Christians, but anyone in the workplace who believes and says we are created male and female”. She said that the judges’ conclusion that a “lack of belief in transgenderism... is incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the rights of others” meant the teachings of the Bible were being placed in a similar category to the beliefs of neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. Medicine cannot function ‘without moral integrity’ Dr Mackereth, 58, said: “The employment tribunal judgment from two years ago said to Christians ‘you have to believe in transgender ideology’. That is totalitarianism. “It is a difficult issue for everyone in the NHS. There has been an explosion of patients identifying as transgender. The ideology to affirm them is enforced in a complex, coercive and threatening way.” He added: “Everyone in the NHS should be able to say publicly without fear that a person cannot change sex. But instead, we are being forced to accept a massive change to our concept of the medical reality of sex, with no scientific basis for that change. “Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended. “As Christians, we are called to love all people with Christian love. But we cannot love people truly when we live and disseminate a lie.” A DWP spokesman said: “We are unable to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.” Steve Bird 6 days ago Like5 Comments| 2 %7B

We’re being forced to change our beliefs, says Christian GP fired over transgender views Steve Bird 6 days ago Like5 Comments| 2 A doctor sacked from his job for refusing to call a transgender woman “she” is taking his case to the High Court claiming those with “gender-critical beliefs” are being “coerced and threatened”. Dr David Mackereth was dismissed in 2018 as a disability assessor for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) after refusing to renounce his Christian belief that gender is determined biologically at birth. He told a manager that he would not call a transgender woman a “she”, adding that his faith meant he could not describe “any 6ft tall bearded man [as] madam’.” The following year, the Reformed Baptist went to an employment tribunal in Birmingham, claiming that he was unfairly dismissed because of his Christain beliefs. He claimed that the DWP’s refusal to allow him to address a client by their biological sex breached his rights to freedom of thought, conscience and rights to practise his religion. The medic told the hearing that he accepted transgender individuals “may find my views to be offensive”, but he had no intention of upsetting people but believed God made humans men or women. However, tribunal judges sitting in October 2019 concluded Dr Mackereth’s Christian belief was not protected by the Equality Act 2010, but was instead “mere opinion” so the DWP had not discriminated against him. They concluded that “his beliefs were likely to cause offence and have the effect of violating a transgender person’s dignity or creating a proscribed environment, or subjecting a transgender person to less favourable treatment”. %7B© Provided by The Telegraph Maya Forstater - Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph Now, Dr Mackereth and the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting his challenge, believe that a recent landmark ruling in favour of Maya Forstater will help them overturn his tribunal ruling in the High Court next month. Ms Forstater was sacked from her job at a think tank for saying people cannot change their biological sex. Although she lost her case at tribunal, she won a High Court appeal in 2019 when a judge found gender-critical beliefs fell under the Equalities Act, in part because they “did not seek to destroy the rights of trans persons”. The judge concluded her belief that sex is immutable was a philosophical position protected under equality laws because it fell far short of being an oppressive view, such as Nazism or totalitarianism, intended to harm others. Andrea Williams, the chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said that if Dr Mackereth’s original tribunal ruling was upheld, it would have “seismic consequences not just for the NHS and for Christians, but anyone in the workplace who believes and says we are created male and female”. She said that the judges’ conclusion that a “lack of belief in transgenderism... is incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the rights of others” meant the teachings of the Bible were being placed in a similar category to the beliefs of neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. Medicine cannot function ‘without moral integrity’ Dr Mackereth, 58, said: “The employment tribunal judgment from two years ago said to Christians ‘you have to believe in transgender ideology’. That is totalitarianism. “It is a difficult issue for everyone in the NHS. There has been an explosion of patients identifying as transgender. The ideology to affirm them is enforced in a complex, coercive and threatening way.” He added: “Everyone in the NHS should be able to say publicly without fear that a person cannot change sex. But instead, we are being forced to accept a massive change to our concept of the medical reality of sex, with no scientific basis for that change. “Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended. “As Christians, we are called to love all people with Christian love. But we cannot love people truly when we live and disseminate a lie.” A DWP spokesman said: “We are unable to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.” full artical at telegraph news paper

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Hello, everyone! I am new to this forum and just seeking help in a certain area of my life. It's been a trying year, and 1) I guess I am struggling in general with when I ask G*d for guidance/clarity/next steps to be made clear and I don't feel like I get an answer 2) I got majorly scammed by someone I had hired and I have been seeking an answer from G*d as to how I should handle the situation. It has been very frustrating because I feel like I have not gotten an answer from G*d (this happened about 1.5 months ago, and it is somewhat time-sensitive due to bank guidelines and so forth). (details- I basically signed up a business coaching program with this "scammer" person who had been recommended to me by someone I trusted-- the program was WAY overpriced with little substance, not to mention the scammer blew off our calls and removed my access to things I had paid for, that were included with the coaching program.) So far, I have asked for a refund from the scammer (they said no) but I have not officially hired a lawyer or taken other action against them. I am basically out A LOT of money (over $10k that I did not have to begin with, and I am now in quite a bit of debt.) I originally hired this person to help me grow my small business in property management. anyway, would love some advice!

Hello, I am in a very serious situation right now and I have no idea what to do about it. I have 9 days to move out of my trailer. I am on disability and only make $847 per month and I am already down to $400 being left in my account. Also, my utilities are in my ex-roommate's name and he moved out Monday so I my power, gas, and Internet can be shut off any time now. I have contacted every agency and apartment complex that I can find and I am getting no support and no help. I am a loner and I'm agoraphobic, severely social phobic, have bad panic and anxiety attacks and do not associate with anyone, really. All I have are 2 of my 4 adult daughters and they are not much help. My youngest is going through things. My 24 year old is stung out on drugs. My 25 year old is in jail and my oldest is in another city. I do not really associate with my mother because of things she's done to me and allowed to happen to me in the past. She is no support whatsoever. I have no one and nothing out here. I used to have my grandparents but they both died and now I am all alone. I have a man but he is in prison. I have 2 old male cats that I love very much and they are my life, but other than my cats, talking to my man on the phone and email, and God...I have no one. For some reason I am not getting anywhere. I have applied for all types of assistance and I am getting no help. I am on disability and am bipolar with psychotic episodes and have PTSD, borderline personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder. I have only been out of my house a handfull of times since November of 2009 and I have not driven a car since then either. I am not on my psychiatric meds right now because I had issues with my mental health care provider and plan on suing them. I can't go to a shelter because they are wanting me to put my cats in the animal shelter and I refuse to do that. That would kill my cats and me. My roommate was a 53 year old guy named Greg and he was very abusive, violent, and he spent his time harassing me, invading my privacy, threatening me, stealing from me, and trying to intimidate me. He caused a lot of problems around here for me and my kids and now I have to move out by the 18th of this month. He is a very bad person and he is on the run right now. There is a warrant out on him. He has 9 felonies and he's on probation for battery and has violated probation twice already. He had something going with the lady that works in the office here at the trailer court and she tampered with our lease and made it look like my daughter's name was never on it, he lied and got a protective order on her and got her kicked out of here, and that lady also wrote him a bogus letter stating that my daughter was banned from here. They had NO grounds. All she did was call the cops on my roommate 6 times because he was a threat. The cops kept telling us there was nothing they could do. I got tired of it and complained about that lady to the owner and the next thing I know I am getting a letter stating they are quitting my lease. I am only on here as an occupant. The utilities are in my ex-roommate's name. I am about to be sitting here with no power, nowhere to go, no support, no money, and on and on it goes. I simply do not know what else I can do. I owe the electric company $350, the gas company $65, and the Internet companies money. I have an eviction on my record and I have bad credit due to student loans. My eviction was really not my fault. I lived in my apartment for 5 years and was never late on my rent then new management came in and jacked the rent up really high and I couldn't afford it. I got evicted back in March of 2017 and I have been bouncing around from place to place since. I need a place of my own and to get my bills straightened out and I need people to help me get my life back on track. I have prayed and prayed about this and am getting no results. I need someone to pray for me that God will direct me to the people and resources I need that can help me. I am at my wits end and have nowhere left to turn.