The school chaplain cancelled for questioning LGBT dogma

Reverend Bernard Randall had been happily teaching at a private Church of England boarding school in Derbyshire when he was abruptly sacked for gross misconduct in September 2019, after delivering a sermon in which he told students they didn’t need to accept LGBT values unquestioningly.

It followed on from him pushing back against a workshop for teachers delivered by a LGBT charity called Educate & Celebrate a year earlier, designed to train staff how to be more inclusive.

An internal panel reinstated him before he was then made redundant in 2020. A subsequent employment tribunal for unfair dismissal in 2022 found against him, although he will now face a fresh tribunal, after a judge ruled that there was an “appearance of bias” in the initial proceedings.

Either way, he has been out of teaching ever since he was sacked, and has effectively been cancelled.

Camilla and Kamal talk to Rev Mr Randall about his ordeal, how he feels the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby could have intervened but didn’t, and why he believes he was simply following Christian teachings “solidly based on what the Bible says”

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