He allegedly “hurt some people’s feelings and undermined the school’s LGBT agenda”
A Christian chaplain, with the help of the Christian Legal Centre in the United Kingdom, is fighting back after he was accused of being a terrorist – and dismissed from his job – for preaching a sermon on the campus of Trent College on religious rights.
The offense by Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall, 48?
He preached that religious beliefs are protected in law, and students were not required to adopt the LGBTQ “ideology.”
He’s now taking the school to court for discrimination, harassment, victimization and unfair dismissal, and his hearing is expected to be heard at East Midlands Employment Tribunal starting June 14.
Randall, after being excluded from a campus discussion on whether to adopt an LGBT-promoting agenda, which school officials did because he might “disagree,” he explained in a campus sermon that no protected characteristic is more protected than another.
And he said, the Legal Centre explained, “for Christians, where there is disagreement, it is vital to love their neighbor, leaving no room for personal attack or abusive language towards anyone.”
He explained Church of England’s biblical position on marriage and human nature, and said children at the school were not compelled to “accept an ideology they disagree with.”
The result was that the “Designated Safeguarding Lead” in the school “began the process of reporting Dr. Randall, without his knowledge, to the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog, Prevent, as a potentially violent religious extremist.”
The situation had developed because school officials adopted a radical agenda proposed by LGBT activist Elly Barnes, of the “Educate and Celebrate” program that seeks to “embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation” into the school, which previously described itself as having a “protestant and evangelical” Church of England ethos.
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