Britain’s ‘batshit preacher’, Calvin Robinson, who fled to the US last year ‘in fear of his life’ has been sacked by his second American church – after just one day.
Robinson left the ‘Satanic’ UK last August claiming he feared he would either be murdered by Muslims or arrested by the Labour government, and found a new Anglican Catholic Church parish in Grand Rapids, West Michigan, where his new flock seemed to believe he had been sent to them by God.
But, what God giveth, God taketh away, and he was sacked by the Anglican Catholic Church in January after making a nazi salute at a right wing rally in Washington. They also accused him of “using rhetoric that was clearly and intentionally anti-Semitic”.
Bizarrely, despite having decamped to the US, Robinson remained UKIP’s Lead Spokesman on Everything, though lately he has been stripping all UKIP references from his social media accounts.
After a while in the wilderness – and a predictable round of crowdfunding – a rather cocky cleric went online last week to announce that another church, the Reformed Episcopalian and Anglican Church in North America, had given him a license to practise as a priest and that his Grand Rapids parish was following him into the REC fold.
Alas, it was not to be. Just a day after granting him the licensure, REC Bishop Ray Sutton withdrew it. It appears that other bishops in the church were far from happy with the decision which took them by surprise, and they made forceful representations to the reputedly right-wing Bishop Sutton.
Bishop Sutton was also aided no doubt, by the verdict of his own archbishop that Robinson was “Un-Anglican and ungovernable”.
Bishop Sutton prayed, reflected, then booted ‘batshit’ out.
Robinson immediately posted that “Perhaps God is sending me a message”. Yes, indeed.
He has since closed down his account on X/Twitter and vanished. Fasting in the desert, no doubt.
Where that leaves his poor flock, remains to be seen.
We will update this story as more details emerge.
