King’s Counsel Gregory Jones has ruled that Archbishop Justin Welby was “plainly wrong” in failing to defend a priest who was barred from preaching for five years after giving a sermon at a private school telling children they could question gender ideology.
In 2021, the Reverend Dr. Bernard Randall, Anglican chaplain of Trent College, was fired from his job and reported to the British government’s anti-terrorism program for telling students it is okay to question the LGBT ideology being taught at the school.
In a June 2019 sermon titled “Competing Ideologies,” Dr. Randall — who previously served as a chaplain for Cambridge University before joining Trent College — responded to students’ queries regarding whether “we have to accept all of this LGBT stuff in a Christian school.”
“Now when ideologies compete, we should not descend into abuse, we should…
