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Sunday, 9 March 2025

Sacked, Branded a “Safeguarding Risk” and Suspended by the Church of England – All for Telling Children They Don’t Have to Accept LGBT Ideology

 This is about the extraordinary case of Rev Dr Bernard Randall and the latest developments in his story. In 2019, Dr Randall, an ordained Church of England (CofE) minister, was working without any issues at Trent College in Derbyshire. The college had a CofE chapel and a CofE ethos and Dr Randall was employed to pastor, teach and uphold Christian beliefs in the school. Everything changed, however, when the college invited extreme LGBT group Educate and Celebrate to implement its ‘gold standard’ inclusive curriculum to even nursery aged children.

At a staff training day, Educate and Celebrate’s Elly Barnes introduced the work of the partly Government-funded charity to school staff. She encouraged staff to stand up and chant “smash heteronormativity” – the belief that male and female relationships are the norm. During this training, which Dr Randall attended, Ms Barnes misled staff that ‘gender identity’ was protected under the Equality Act and lied that her organisation was recognised by Ofsted, which it wasn’t. Before going defunct, Educate and Celebrate was given access to thousands of schools across the country teaching ‘Queer Theory’, the ‘gender unicorn’ and telling educators to remove the terms ‘boys and girls’ from the school environment.

In recent years, Educate and Celebrate, especially its patrons, have been plagued by scandal to the point it was quietly closed by the Charity Commission. One patron, Stephen Ireland, has been charged with multiple accounts of sex abuse against children, including rape and conspiracy to kidnap.

Another patron, transgender comic, Jordan Grey, stripped naked on Channel Four and played the piano with his genitalia. Gray had suggested that he went into schools to “talk about gender” on behalf of Educate and Celebrate, adding that “toddlers kind of get it straight away.”...<<<Read More>>>...