The bishop also asked him to serve as Catholic chaplain to Nottingham Trent University.
While Nottingham Trent University accepted the appointment, the University of Nottingham invited Palmer for an interview on June 17.
Following the interview, the university wrote to McKinney expressing concerns about the appointment.
At a further meeting on July 1, the university specified that the concerns related to Palmer’s posts on social media, highlighting one on assisted suicide and another on abortion.
“They referenced a tweet where I had referred to the proposed ‘assisted dying’ bill [introduced in Britain’s Parliament in May] as a bill to allow the NHS ‘to kill the vulnerable,’” Palmer told CNA via email on Aug. 26.
“I was told it was fine for me to have this opinion, but they were concerned with how I expressed it. When I asked how they would suggest I express it, quite remarkably, they suggested I should call it ‘end of life care,’ which is a completely unacceptable policing of religious belief.”