A Christian man had his social worker job withdrawn because it was feared his beliefs would lead to the suicides of LGBT patients, an employment tribunal has heard. The Telegraph has more.
Rev Felix Ngole, 46, had been offered employment with Stonewall-backed NHS provider Touchstone, which provides mental health and wellbeing services to over 10,000 individuals each year across Yorkshire, in 2022.
After the charity learned that he believed homosexuality was a sin, he was called in for a second interview and turned down.
Mr. Ngole, of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, told Leeds employment tribunal he has worked as a youth worker, teacher and pastor for 20 years, and has helped gypsies, lesbians, gays and trans people during that time.
In answer to a Touchstone report in which it was stated Mr. Ngole’s employment could lead to vulnerable service users killing themselves because of his Christian beliefs, he said: “If just 2% of it [the report] was correct, that when people see me they might kill themselves, then, I’m telling you, the graveyards in Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster would be full.
“I have worked with people from the gypsy community, gay and lesbian. Not long ago I worked with a trans person and I treated them as a human being.
“When I look at a person I see a human being, I don’t look under your trousers to see if you are a man or a woman.”
The tribunal heard Mr. Ngole, who came to Britain from Cameroon as an asylum seeker, saw the Touchstone job on the website Indeed and applied for the role, stating that he was a reverend.
Mr. Ngole, a grandfather who is being supported in the tribunal by his wife, Pepsy, 55, qualified as a social worker in 2021.
Just under a month after offering Mr. Ngole a job, Touchstone bosses googled his name and read about an earlier court hearing involving the University of Sheffield.
In that instance, Mr. Ngole had posted on Facebook that he believed homosexuality was “wicked” and “sinful”.
Touchstone then felt Mr. Ngole’s Christian values went against the charity’s values and ethos.
Kathryn Hart, Deputy Chief Executive at the charity, was concerned that Mr. Ngole’s “viewpoints on LGBTQI+ relationships and same sex marriage would be visible to all, and it was of serious concern to me how the Claimant’s views could potentially negatively impact the vulnerable service users”.
Despite the father of three seeking to assure Leeds-based Touchstone that he had never been accused of forcing his beliefs on anyone and that he had never been accused of discriminating against anybody, he was called in for another interview and the job offer was eventually withdrawn.
Worth reading in full.
The case represents a potentially major escalation in the war on non-woke beliefs as it’s believed to be the first time it has been argued that a person merely holding and expressing on social media traditional Christian views on marriage and sexuality ought to be a reason to discriminate in employment against him due to the potential harm to LGBT people. A victory for the charity could have a major impact on freedom of speech, and not just for Christians. For instance, it may mean an employer would be free to do the same in relation to a person espousing gender critical views, claiming a risk of trans people committing suicide. Will the tribunal recognise that Christian views, like gender critical views, are protected beliefs and so may not be discriminated against in this way? That would clearly be best for freedom of speech and freedom of belief, and would seem the right outcome under current U.K. law. But employment tribunals can be hard to second guess, so we shall see.
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Muslims and Christians share many of the same beliefs on these subjects, albeit they tend to differ on how they put those beliefs into practice. It is somewhat ‘strange’ however that only Christians are persecuted for holding these views, or are we to assume that Touchstone has no muslim employees either?
Often questioned this myself.
It’s easy to dismiss Christians. They are not likely to behead you.
True, imagine the church of England doing the inquisition!
https://youtu.be/rZVjKlBCvhg?si=UAEnt8Q6ZAviQN54
Interesting parallels with this: Coalition of the Fringes goes circular firing squad in Amherst, MA, by Steve Sailer – The Unz Review
Maybe its just good old fashioned racism disguised as concern for the LGTQ ABCDEFG Etc community, it seems in the game of top trumps protected species imaginery biological beliefs trumps everything else.
I don’t think so because he’s not white. That’s the only type of racism in town these days. Pre-Clown World this would’ve been an open and closed case of classic discrimination based on his religion, which as we all know, is unlawful. The idiots even admit to it;
”Mr. Ngole’s employment could lead to vulnerable service users killing themselves because of his Christian beliefs.”
But due to Clown World rules firmly being established, and everything being topsy turvy as a result, what looks like a straightforward case with a predictable outcome is now anybody’s guess. ‘Justice’ is yet another word that appears to have been redefined in recent years.
Why can we (the unwoke normies) not claim that the wokesters.transtersnet zero cultists etc are making us feel vulnerable and as such we could kill ourselves because of their beliefs
Because this is then called white fragility and claimed to be the reason why we are psychologically forced to oppress the other even harder to save our evil selves.
The premise itself is, of course, utter tosh. I was a GP for 30 years and dealt with many LGBT people (even decades before the “T” was a big thing).
Not only did my (overtly) Christian beliefs not cause suicides, but gay patients gave me “thankyou” presents and even pleaded to be kept on the list when they moved out of the practice area.
It’s hard to think how any care-worker’s beliefs would bother a client enough to cause suicide. Either there’s a good relationship, and the differences don’t matter much, or the client thinks the professional is an idiot, a bigot etc and insists on a change.
I wonder if the same consideration would be applied in my case if I was treated by by a trans person and threatened to kill myself because I didn’t want to be attended to by someone who I consided might be suffering from an undiagnosed mental condition.
Off-T
This is hilarious. The good people at Off-G have been promising updates to the site for a couple of weeks. Here it is. This is the site layout recently rejected by TCW.
The update is fabulous – clear, well-structured and inviting. Marvellous. Thanks Off-G.
https://off-guardian.org/
Thanks for the link.
That’s just the run-of-the-mill trans fable: This child must be gruesomely mutilated to stop it from ever turning into a fully-developed human being because otherwise, it’ll surely kill itself.
They could have upped the ante somewhat by claiming that vulnerable service users might perhaps genocide themselves. Or perhaps, they could self-immolate and thus, release all the carbon contained in their bodies into the atmosphere in form of CO₂ and thus, pushing all life on the planet even closer to the verge of extinction.
NB: The really meaningless word salad is entirely intentional because it is the real thing.
Can’t we just round up Stonewall, put them on an RAF Globemaster and drop them off in
Palestine?
“round up Stonewall”
What a remarkably sound suggestion.
I think as long as Touchstone doesn’t have somebody like this representing them this chap should walk it. We can but hope sanity and common sense reign supreme;
https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1776129318957318327
I can’t think of anything to say.
Makes a change!
Well I thought this was parody but he looks to be fully imersed in his character if it’s not. It reminds me of the teacher over in Canada who insisted on wearing gargantuan fake Bristol Cities, which was 100% a wind-up, in my opinion. I’m not sure but do you think it’s a bit like ‘Pride’ and they’ve just extended ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ for a lot longer than advertised? 
I can’t get over how nonchalant everyone else in the video looks. I mean, even such impressive, gravity-defying boobage requires a bra. He’s smuggling Brazil nuts! 
WTH is that?
Are you sure you really want to know this? I’m entirely happy that it’s elsewhere.
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Frank Haviland getting in to Useless Yousaf, the Sesame Street reject Hate Monster.
Marvellous.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/humza-yousaf-scotlands-hate-monster/
A similar situation existed using the teaching profession ten years ago. If you merely held the slightest doubt over the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis you risked being re-interviewed and cancelled, even if your subject was not directly related to AGW. Similarly opinions onLGBT and Slave Trade Reparations were hazardous if they were sceptical of The Official Narrative.
“Because LGBT Patients “Might Kill Themselves”
Arh, Bleeeessssss!
Oh well, whatever, never mind!
Question.
What is more likely to drive someone to suicide, losing their job or being confronted by someone else’s religious beliefs?
Why would Stonewall care about dead Christians? They’re not victims.
If Rev Ngole loses his case it would set a dangerous precedent.
Because of the amount of indoctrination about climate catastrophe, global boiling or whatever it’s now called a lot of young people suffer from anxiety about the future.
Would someone with climate sceptic views who wanted to be a social worker and help young people overcome their fear about the future by explaining to them that there’s nothing to worry about be rejected for a job because their views aren’t woke/don’t conform to the “”consensus” on the subject.
Judge Brain has already ordered the recusal of one TUC panel member for being an alphabet people sympathiser. He will be replaced by another TUC member. Is the Judge a Christian? Just saying…
No great faith ought to be placed in employment tribunals. They are fake courts staffed largely by members of the corrupt leftist establishment.