A former Texas fire chaplain has filed a motion asking a federal court to protect his free speech and religious freedom after city officials allegedly fired him for sharing his religious views on his blog.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a non-profit legal group, filed a motion Tuesday on behalf of Dr. Andrew Fox.
Fox is an ordained minister who helped start Austin’s fire chaplaincy program and served as its lead chaplain “faithfully serving the spiritual needs of Austin’s firefighters,” according to the lawsuit filed by ADF.Â
But in 2022, he shared his belief that biological men should not compete on women’s sports teams due to significant physiological differences.
As CBN News reported, Fox claimed he was dismissed from the department after an unknown number of individuals at the fire department “anonymously complained” about the nature of his posts.Â
“The issue is about gender identity and how ridiculous it is becoming. So let me be clear, this type of ideological bosh is coming straight out of Willy Woke and the Chocolate Factory,” he wrote on his blog.Â
“I was asked to recant on those views and then write a letter of apology for those views, and, of course, I did not do
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