A school chaplain sacked and referred to the government’s terrorism prevention programme for delivering a sermon on gender has won a seven-year battle to be reinstated.
Bernard Randall, 53, was banned from preaching after he told pupils at Trent College, Derbyshire, that marriage is between a biological man and woman.
He gave the address at the £40,000-a-year school in 2019, following a visit from an external campaign group called Educate and Celebrate.
During a training day at the school, the now defunct charity used the phrase ‘smash heteronormativity’, adding that it wanted to embed ‘queer theory’ at the school.
Educate and Celebrate was shut down
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