Maybe you have already heard about the Irish teacher who ended up in prison for refusing to comply with a request from his school to refer to a student using the pronoun ‘they’.

Yet another case of Christians being fired, suspended from their jobs, or in some other way removed from public life simply because they stood up for their beliefs.

This event requires us to recognize a painful truth: what happened is not an oddity. We’ve seen it before.

Riccardo Simonetti, who works as an "influencer" for the European Parliament and is a self-proclaimed "EU LGBTIQ Ambassador", mocks the Virgin Mary and the birth of Jesus. She poses as a transgender Virgin Mary with a beard on the cover of a German LGBTQ magazine. In his statements, he also seeks to ridicule Christianity and one of the most important people honored by Catholics - the Mother of God.