Published 10 May 2021 at 12.11
Abroad. A chaplain at an English boarding school preached to students that they had the right to question the school's gender and LGBTQ ideology. The school then reported him to the state anti-terrorist program Prevent, reports the Daily Mail.
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The boarding school Trent College near Nottingham recently introduced new far-reaching LGBTQ policies that raised concerns among students.
School pastor Bernard Randall, a former chaplain at the University of Cambridge, June 2019 a sermon for the students in the school chapel. In his sermon he explained that it was ok for the students to question the cultural Marxist ideology.
– You should not have to hear that you have to accept LGBTQ ideology, just as you should not have to hear that you have to be for Brexit or that you must be Muslims, Randall told the students.
The school management later stated that Bernard Randall's sermon had been “harmful to LGBTQ students”. He was also registered in the state Prevent program, which exists to counter terrorism and radicalization. However, after examining the case, the police did not consider that the school pastor posed such a threat that he fit into the Prevent program.
Randall was also told that all his future sermons would be censored in advance and monitored by the school.
The school pastor has now sued the school for discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal.
– My career and my life have been ruined, says Bernard Randall according to the Daily Mail.