Reverend says ‘soft totalitarianism’ has barred him from preaching sermons after he presented the Christian viewpoint on LGBT issues in a CofE school.
A Christian chaplain who was forced out of his job and reported to a terrorist watchdog for giving a sermon defending the right to question LGBT ideology is suing the headmaster of the school.
Rev. Bernard Randall, 49, from Derbyshire, a former chaplain of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is taking Trent College’s headmaster in Derbyshire to court for victimisation, continued harassment, and discrimination on the grounds of his Christian beliefs.
Based on his experiences, he told The Epoch Times the he believed that the UK is currently in a “soft totalitarianism,” which could harden without pushback.
Prevent
In 2019, Mr. Randall was disciplined and lost his job as a chaplain at the fee-paying Church of England (CofE) school Trent College after preaching a sermon that presented the Christian viewpoint on gender identity and LGBT ideology.
The school reported him to Prevent, the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog, after he raised concerns at the school about an external LGBT group, Educate and Celebrate, that had encouraged…
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