You Are a Danger to Children, Church of England Tells School Chaplain Who Said Pupils Could Disagree with Woke Dogma: A Sinister Twist in Rev Bernard Randall's Fight for His Career After He Was Reported to an Anti-Terror Unit by His Bosses

* He defended pupils’ rights to question the introduction of new LGBT policies

* However an investigation found that he posed a ‘moderate’ risk, and might cause children ‘anxiety’ if they came to him with ‘a sexuality or relationship’ issue

A school chaplain claims he was ‘betrayed’ by the Church of England after it branded him a safeguarding risk to children for giving a sermon on identity politics.

The Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, 49, won widespread public support last year when The Mail on Sunday revealed that he was sacked by a fee-paying school and reported to terrorism watchdogs for defending pupils’ rights to question the introduction of new LGBT policies.

Dr Randall said that he expected support from his diocese, run by the Bishop of Derby, the Rt Rev Libby Lane, especially as his sermon accurately presented the Church of England’s teachings.

But to his profound dismay, he reveals today that the diocese launched its own investigation, conducting a risk assessment which concluded that he posed a ‘moderate’ risk, and might cause children ‘anxiety’ if they came to him with ‘a sexuality or relationship’ issue.

When they came from England.. when Columbus sailed with the first load and came to America.. those who sailed in those ships.. some were sick.. coming to a land they had not seen.. it was for freedom of worship.
They wanted to be free from the King, to worship God... not told how, who, and if.

Today our country.. is so messed up even in some churches.. forgetting God and inviting sex change with other ways to mess up a generation of kids. If these trends bother us.. what does God see when He looks at His creation..
How did sick principles become even thinkable..

His sermon outlined the Anglican Church’s view of marriage as being between a man and a woman and was delivered after students questioned the school’s new policy on sexual-orientation diversity. Campaigners called Dr Randall’s dismissal ‘scandalous’ and said schools should teach children ‘how to think, not what to think’.

The Church is the one place in society where it is imperative to teach "settled" beliefs, which is what he was doing.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
—Romans 1:22-32

God is the same, yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). This is astonishing:

A church safeguarding officer summoned Dr Randall to a meeting in December 2019. She later wrote he ‘has consistently demonstrated his inability and unwillingness to accept a different viewpoint.
‘Despite his opinion being supported by scripture and elements of canon law it is his apparent opposition to consider or accept a different approach to relationships which is of concern in a 21st-century Church of England. This is a reputational risk to be managed by any parish and diocese to which Rev’d Randall is connected.’
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