text:  There were times when the criticism hurt, especially when it came from family members and people I loved. But a few months after I first released this blog series, I found out that the Nigerian Senate had refused to pass a bill called the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill. And they had refused to pass this bill on the grounds of religion. Senators who were both Muslim and read from the Quran and the Bible, and they said this bill goes against everything that our faiths spell out. In reading the tweets,