Ben Dybowski
My name is Ben Dybowski.
I work as a teacher and teacher assistant. Or I should say: I worked.
Earlier this year I got sacked from an Anglican high school for daring to express three mainstream Christian views during a talk on diversity and inclusion, of all things, organised for the teaching staff. I had been told it was a “safe space”.
These are the views I voiced:
- I believe that human life starts at conception and should be protected from that moment.
- I believe that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. However I acknowledge the state recognises other options.
- I am critical of some aspects of Islam.
That’s it. Three mainstream Christian views; why, three mainstream views in general, shared by millions of Brits, religious or otherwise.
The next day I was escorted by the headmaster out of the school building. He decided my views were a “safeguarding issue” and reported me to the local regulator of the education workforce (in plain English: in his opinion my Christian beliefs made me unsafe to work with children and young people). This led to a general ban on working in schools.
Those Orwellian developments have lead to two things.
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Firstly, with the help of UK’s leading barrister on religious and human rights, Paul Diamond, I am taking LEGAL ACTION against the school.
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Secondly, with a group of friends I am planning launch a big, nationwide campaign to put in an emphatic way a stop to the discrimination of people in Britain for holding and professing Christian views.
Today I am asking you to help me cover the cost of the legal action against the school, which so blatantly discriminated against me. I will be grateful for every single donation, regardless of the amount.