Thu Mar 2, 2023 – 5:07 am ESTThu Mar 2, 2023 – 5:18 am EST
NOTTINGHAM, England (Christian Concern) — An ordained Church of England (CofE) chaplain, who was sacked and secretly reported to the government’s terrorist watchdog for a moderate sermon in a school chapel on identity politics, will appeal an employment tribunal ruling handed down this week.
Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall had taken his employer, Trent College in Nottingham, to court for discrimination, harassment, victimization, and unfair dismissal.
He has described the ruling against him as a “blow for free speech and Christian freedoms.”
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Extreme LGBT ideology
Randall, who is a former chaplain at Christ’s College Cambridge, had been “alarmed” when at the start of the school year in 2018, Trent College in Nottinghamshire, which has a “Protestant and Evangelical” CofE ethos, invited radical and extreme LGBT group Educate & Celebrate (E&C) into the school.
During staff training, E&C’s leader, Elly Barnes, had encouraged staff to chant “smash heteronormativity.”
To “smash heteronormativity” means smashing the traditional view of sex
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