I've just been dismissed by a Christian college for tweets on homosexuality – if I wasn’t safe, no one is

Dr Aaron Edwards was recently dismissed from Cliff College, the Methodist Bible college, where he worked as a lecturer, after pro-LGBT advocates attacked him over his views on sexuality. Here he explains why his sacking should be a concern for all Christians

I was recently dismissed for misconduct by an evangelical Methodist Bible college where I had worked as a lecturer and programme lead for seven years. The misconduct referred to my now-infamous tweet: “Homosexuality is invading the Church. Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this b/c they’re busy apologising for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it’s true. This *is* a ‘Gospel issue’, by the way. If sin is no longer sin, we no longer need a Saviour”.

A Twitterstorm quickly ensued. Aggressively pro-LGBT advocates attacked me as homophobic and hateful, pressurising the college to sack me. The college swiftly and publically denounced my tweet as “inappropriate” and “unacceptable”. They later asked me to remove it. When I said I couldn’t do that in good conscience, I was suspended and later dismissed for “bringing the college into disrepute”.