from Christian Concern
New revelations have raised serious concern over the ongoing blacklisting of the Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, for a sermon in which he said it was ok for children to debate and disagree with gender identity teaching.
Dr Randall, who is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was dismissed as chaplain at Trent College in Derbyshire and then referred to the UK’s counter-terrorism programme, Prevent, after delivering a sermon in a CofE chapel in a CofE school on the CofE’s teaching on marriage.
The sermon followed the invitation of discredited and controversial group Educate and Celebrate into the Christian school to promote, in their words, the need to ‘smash heteronormativity’, to even nursery aged children.
In the latest horror story surrounding Educate and Celebrate, just last week one if its patrons, Stephen Ireland, was jailed for 24 years for a series of sex offences against children, which included rape.
Despite the scandals that continue to envelop the group, the CofE and the Bishop of Derby, the Rt Revd Libby Lane, have been silent on the issue, and instead continues to blacklist Dr Randall as a safeguarding risk to children.
Following his dismissal, and with no evidence that he ever has or ever would harm a child, the Church of England denied him a licence to preach and has barred him from ministry ever since.
If he were to deliver a sermon in a CofE church, he could face legal sanction.
Dr Randall has been told by Prevent, the Teaching Regulation Agency, the Disclosure and Barring Service, and the Local Authority Designated Officer for Safeguarding (LADO) that he has no safeguarding case to answer.
Read also: Gender-critical school chaplain: I’ve been put through six years of shame by Fiona Parker, Telegraph
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