Category: Cancel Culture

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Why Would A Christian Chaplain Let That Pass?

Challenging essay about the plight and right of Rev Dr. Bernard Randall to speak up if he thinks Gender Ideology opposes Christian Theology.

Dr Randall was referred to the anti-terrorism Prevent programme and initially sacked for gross misconduct by the fee-paying Trent College in Derbyshire after he told pupils they were free to criticise the school’s LGBT policy

...this is not simply about supporting LGBT pupils — even supposing we think that LGB and T belong together (the LGB Alliance and many others don’t). It is about an ideology which wishes to break down society, and remould it into … well, I know not what. It’s about Queer Theory, and disrupting all categories. That’s why the mantra “smash heteronormativity” describes Educate and Celebrate’s work so very well. But as human beings we navigate the world by categories — it means we don’t have to process every piece of sensory input or information separately and afresh. The destruction of categories means mental overload, loss of the ability to make timely decisions, paralysis, and chaos. I’m pretty sure no Christian would support chaos. Nor would any reasonable person. Yes, categories, stereotypes, sometime mislead us, but the way to deal with that is to be alert to them, not to dispense with them altogether.

What’s more, Queer Theory has roots in Marxism and Postmodernism, and is thus a manifestly atheist system. Again, why would a Christian chaplain just let that pass? 

Source: The Critic

Well he/she shouldn’t. Even if doing so makes enemies. As it will.

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Who Are The Extremists?

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Church of England Diocese Declares The Church A Risk Factor

Andrea Williams comments on how the Church of England’s Diocese of Derby added to the harm caused to Rev. Dr Bernard Randall under the guise of safeguarding.

After putting the Rev through a “safeguarding process” to ensure that he was not in fact a risk to children the Diocese of Derby issued a report that cited “the Church itself as a risk factor and, for firmly holding to the Church’s view, Dr Randall is treated as a reputational risk.

Church reveals ‘insanity’ by declaring itself a risk factor

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Blind To Reality

Excellent article in The Spectator – Australia about the lack of vision at one of the finest Western Universities, Cambridge. What was once a bastion of feminist activism. Is no longer. Why the feminist falling out?

Because Gender Critical Feminists believe that sex is real and binary. And some Cambridge faculty and students regard those out-dated ideas as beyond the pale for civilized discourse.

At one of this country’s most prestigious universities, women who hold perfectly reasonable views are terrorised into silence. Gender-critical students and academics are ostracised. A university that prides itself on academic rigour is letting down its students.

Dozens of blue and gold banners now hang from the ceiling of Newnham’s dining hall, commissioned by the college in celebration of its 150th year. In richly-embroidered slogans they exhort the importance of ‘privileging queerness’, ‘experimenting with gender’ and ‘trans liberation’; they reassure students we can ‘be who we say we are’. Among these, one sobering message stands out: ‘Appreciate reality.’ I had lunch at the college recently with a fellow PhD student whose research also relates to gender, when my opinion became clear. She paused, looking bemused, and asked: ‘So, you think there are only two sexes?’.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/cambridge-university-is-blind-to-reality-in-the-gender-debate/

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