A Christian teaching assistant in the U.K. has won a legal settlement from a high school after he was fired for street preaching in his spare time.
Andy Nix will receive a settlement amounting to more than $8,900 in U.S. dollars from Temple Moor High School in the city of Leeds. He was supported in his case by the Christian Legal Centre.
Nix, 65, who qualified to teach in U.K. schools 18 years ago, sued the school, claiming the school’s headmaster and the teaching agency Prospero Teaching had discriminated against him for expressing his Christian beliefs.
Fired for ‘Hearsay Evidence’
In March of 2022, Nix was summoned by the HR manager to Headteacher Matthew West’s office. West asked Nix if he had been part of a ‘rally’ in Leeds City Centre.
West suggested that the teaching assistant had been arrested for “homophobic remarks,” which was not true.
He told the headteacher he was a Christian evangelist in his spare time, and on that occasion, he had been wrongfully arrested and all charges had been dropped.
In July 2021, Nix was arrested alongside fellow evangelist Dave McConnell after members of a crowd assaulted, verbally abused, and stole property from the two
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