Reporter: Heather Rosenbaum | Videographer: RJ Burnette
Pittsylvania Co., VA - The woman standing up against the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors in the ACLU versus Pittsylvania County lawsuit finally has a name: Barbara Hudson.
Hudson says she has very strong opinions but doesn't want to go on camera or have her voice be broadcast.
Hudson lives in Chatham, practices law, regularly attends supervisors meetings and feels like she is standing up for her rights. That's something both sides can agree on.
"If we don't stand up against this and take our rights back, we are going to lose rights," said Tim Barber, chairman of Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors,
But the way Hudson sees it, her rights include attending a government meeting where only the title "God" is mentioned, not "Jesus Christ".
Barber has a response to that:
"As a Christian, if I'm not praying and it's ending in Jesus' name, I'm not saying a Christian prayer. I think that's been the whole board's stance. If we can't end a prayer how we see fit, we are being discriminated against," he said.
Hudson does not practice Christianity. She says when she attended the meetings she "felt like an outsider that they were doing something wrong."
"We are not asking them join Christ or nothing else, we are just praying our own personal convictions," said Barber.
Even though Barber argues that they have been saying these prayers for hundreds of years, Hudson says times are changing but praying to simply "God" is quote "a good thing."
Part of the reason Hudson didn't want to go on camera was because she says she has been contacted by the KKK and others. She says she felt threatened.
But Barber says he does not believe that is appropriate behavior.
