‘I DISCOVERED THAT THE SCHOOL HAD REPORTED ME TO PREVENT.’
After delivering a sermon at Trent College — an Anglican school — setting out the Church of England’s teaching on marriage and telling pupils that “you do not have to accept the ideas of LGBT activists”, the Reverend Dr Bernard Randall was banned from preaching, suspended and ultimately sacked.
But that wasn’t all. The school had secretly reported him to Prevent, the Government’s counter-terrorism programme.
Bernard tells FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw that he was, in effect, being accused of “terrorism and child abuse”.
During his disciplinary hearing, Bernard asked the school’s headmaster whether he considered the Church of England a “terrorist organisation”. After being left for days to believe that Prevent might take action against him, Bernard was eventually informed that the referral had been rejected because it did not meet the criteria.
A police officer later told him that his sermon was “inappropriate for a school and inappropriate for society”.
How can it be right that, in a Christian country, a priest is told by a police officer that the Church’s teachings are inappropriate?
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