Judge delays sacked chaplain Bernard’s appeal
from Christian Concern:
In a further delay to the pursuit of justice, a judge at the Employment Appeal Tribunal has postponed granting permission to appeal to Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, the chaplain sacked and reported to a terrorist watchdog for a sermon on identity politics, until March 2025.
Judge James Tayler ruled that Dr Randall’s permission to appeal should not be heard until after the Court of Appeal hears the case of sacked school assistant, Kristie Higgs, involving similar legal issues.
In January 2023, Kristie Higgs won permission to have her case heard at the Court of Appeal after a five-year legal battle. The hearing is scheduled to begin on 2 October 2024, with a ruling likely to follow before the New Year.
Both Kristie Higgs’ and Dr Randall’s cases are being supported by the Christian Legal Centre. Both cases involve issues of principle about the freedom for Christians to express their beliefs and opposition to harmful transgender ideology, sex education and extreme gender identity beliefs without fear of losing their jobs.
In 2019 Mrs Higgs was sacked, and had her Christian beliefs compared to Neo-Nazism, for opposing transgender ideology and sharing a petition against compulsory sex education on social media.
Mrs Higgs had made the posts after discovering that the Church of England (CofE) school attended by her child (not the school where she was employed) planned, under the radar, to introduce ‘No Outsiders’ books on confusing and harmful gender identity.
Dr Randall, an ordained Church of England (CofE) minister, took legal action against Trent College in Derbyshire following his dismissal for a sermon he gave in 2019 on the CofE’s own teaching on marriage, in a CofE chapel, in a school with a CofE ethos.
He gave the sermon after Trent College invited extreme and now discredited gender identity group, Educate and Celebrate, into the school to ‘smash heteronormativity.’
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