Safeguarding Authority Drops Case Against School Chaplain Fired for Questioning LGBT Ideology

Published on January 25, 2024

The Disclosure and Barring Service will not take action against a Christian chaplain who was forced out of his job at a school for giving a sermon defending the right to question LGBT ideology, according to religious discrimination lawyers. In 2019, Bernard Randall was disciplined and lost his job as a chaplain at the fee-paying Church of England (CofE) school Trent College after preaching a sermon that presented the Christian viewpoint on gender identity and LGBT ideology. The school reported him to safeguarding, teaching authorities and to the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog Prevent, after he raised concerns at the school about an external LGBT group, Educate and Celebrate, that had encouraged school staff to chant “smash heteronormativity” at a training session....

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