Christian councillor, King Lawal, faces an investigation by the Conservative Party for expressing his religious beliefs on social media, which has led to his suspension, job loss and ‘cancellation’ by six organisations. Lawal claims that his freedom of speech and religion have been violated. The Telegraph has the story:
A Christian councillor who tweeted “Pride is not a virtue but a sin” is being investigated by Conservative headquarters.
King Lawal, a Northamptonshire Councillor, has been suspended from the Conservative Party and said he has been “cancelled” by six other organisations after expressing his religious beliefs on social media.
Responding to images of Pride parades organised by LGBT groups at the end of last month, he wrote: “When did pride become a thing to celebrate? Because of pride, Satan fell as an archangel. Pride is not a virtue but a sin. Those who have pride should repent of their sins and return to Jesus Christ. He can save you. #PrideMonth #Pride23 #PrideParade.”
The post included an image with a verse from Isaiah 3 verse 9, which said: “Whatever God calls ‘sin’ is nothing to be proud of.”
Councillor Lawal, 31, said that soon after posting the tweet he was suspended by the local Conservative group, pending an investigation involving CCHQ.
He said he was forced to resign from his job in a nursing and care business after receiving an ultimatum by a different local authority because of his tweet.
Cllr Lawal was also removed as a trustee from an organisation that helps children get access to green spaces and suspended as an academy council member for Weavers Academy, a state secondary school in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, according to correspondence seen by the Telegraph. His local library said he could no longer host a planned surgery at the venue.
Speaking for the first time since the backlash, Cllr Lawal said: “It is now almost impossible to say something biblically truthful on sexual ethics in U.K. society without being cancelled and having your life ruined.”
He added: “What I said was biblically sound and a protected expression of the Christian faith.
“As the only black councillor in the whole of Northamptonshire, I know what it is like to be in the minority, and I would never discriminate against anyone. I have diligently represented all my constituents; however, I must also be free to express my beliefs without fear.”
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Yes we get it. Wokeness is out of control and the Conservative party is fully on board with it, while trying to fool its.most naive supporters that it isn’t throwing the occasional bone.
I don’t care about the Conservative party. How about telling us about some other political.parties and the good stuff they are doing against woke culture?
Unlike all establishment parties, upholding and promoting freedom of speech is a key policy of all centre right challenger parties. Wokism requires censorship to prosper. Deny that censorship and it may wither and dieThe problem Is these parties are not receiving sufficient support from those who abhor and fear the effects of rampant wokeism.
If he was a Muslim nothing would happen, just some knee bending and ‘oh yes that is his righteous belief, we disagree but we can’t condemn.’
He is Christian. Black Lives don’t Matter if you are a Black Christian. See Nigeria and the Muslim slaughter of Black Christians.
The Persecution of the religious group who built this country accelerates.
The convict party is a joke. They all are. Anti-Christian, aniti-White, anti-Reality. anti-morality.
F’em all. Christophoic bigots and idiots.
If I said amen to all of that do I risk being consigned to the darkest recesses of social media.
How much longer before the Christian Church is outed as an imperialist, white supremacist, racist entity? Or has that already happened?
If you refer to the church whose chairmain is Oily Welby, that has already happened a long time ago.
Yes, he’s already taken his 30 pieces of silver.
So it’s OK to hold a Hindu ceremony in No10 but not express Christian doctrine?
Look no further for the end of the Conservative in name only party.
A member of my family has just done a number of interviews in the public sector each one ended with the same question.
How will you promote Diversity inclusion and equality. DIE as Gavin Ashenden (was an Anglican bishop) explains in one of his podcasts reached through his Twitter or Facebook, is part of the teachings in the bible but the secular DIE is something else !! It has has become a political Trojan horse and PRIDE DIE is part of this. If you don’t quote the correct mantra in these job interviews you will not get the job in the first place. “Cancelled in advance” we are in dangerous totalitarian territories.
Stay neutral in your answer or you will not be employed.
sorry for that councillor I wish him well.
Oh and the Conservatives will lose because of these sort of actions
So we took back control from all those awful EU bureaucrats… only to hand it over to this other awful bunch of bureaucrats.
We’ve left the EU to form our own anti-white, anti-biology cult. Brilliant.
Or, worse, we left the EU and kept their anti-white, anti-biology cult! When we left the EU, there needed to be a massive clear out of personnel in all government departments on literally that day. Instead, they’re still working against us from Work-from-Home Whitehall!
Not defending the EUrocrats but the anti white anti biology cult isn’t an EU thing. It’s very much an Anglo cult which like so many things coming out of the anglosphere may be adopted elsewhere, but the UK and US are definitely leading on this one.
As I keep repeating on this comment forum …. It starts in schools and education!!!! This leaning or bias of ideological teaching has been prevalent for at least 20 years and young people leave school well versed in the new way! in fact committed to climate/biological/anti Christian/anti certain book authors, pro Banksey, anti traditional art anti Jane Austen …..assigning babies at birth, ?? Pro open borders. Debating societies are dead as there is no other view allowed or even known!!
I have deleted the rest of this comment because I need and like my job. One does get challenged. Only last week for me I think someone was fishing. I Dodged it. For now.
Now you know why there is a dearth of people coming forward to engage actively in centre right politics. Their careers or even business will be at risk if, for example, they stand as a centre right political candidate.
Yes !!! Fear
i would offer to help hand out leaflets
but if I was seen
over and out at work
Shirk-at-Home?
FFS, it is the pants-wetting, science-denying, lie-spreading doctors that should have their medical licenses removed, not the ethical, evidence-based medicine practicing doctors who raise concerns over vax injuries. Whinging, paranoid idiots.
”Doctors have warned the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings is “playing Russian roulette” with staff and patients’ welfare.
Now, the Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition has written to ministers to highlight the “very serious flaws” in changing the guidance.
The group is made up of Scottish healthcare workers who worked throughout the pandemic and are now living with long Covid or another chronic post-viral illness or disability.
They said healthcare workers are at significantly higher risk of contracting the virus and some have developed post-Covid chronic illnesses.
The group is demanding the reintroduction of masks in all health and social care settings and a commitment to improving ventilation and air filtration as a matter of urgency.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66215539
And a report for the Scottish Covid Inquiry states;
“In 2020 there was scientific evidence to support the use of some of the physical measures (e.g. frequent handwashing, the use of PPE in hospital settings) adopted against COVID-19. For other measures (e.g. face mask mandates outside of healthcare settings, lockdowns, social distancing, test, trace and isolate measures) there was either insufficient evidence in 2020 to support their use – or alternatively, no evidence; the evidence base has not changed materially in the intervening three years.
“It has been argued that the restrictive measures introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in individual, societal and economic harm that was avoidable and that should not have occurred.”
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/no-evidence-support-covid-lockdowns-30470038
Nobody ever told them what working in health care required getting in close contact with lots of strange people. That just wasn’t fair!
:->
That the conversative and dissolutionist party comes after people who claim that men is sinful and thus, ought to be humble, is not really surprising. Didn’t they have the jelly-mob as prime minister not that long ago, who kept partying on in Downing Street while the rest of the country was locked up because a bunch of old communists claimed this was necessary for their own^W^Wpublic safety? And who was that minister of health who hired is perpetual mistress as an advisor and got caught in the act in front of a CCTV camera? I think his name was Shag Wallsocket or something like this. Truly an electrified paragon of conversative virtues!
Again, it is this undermining of the tenets of a civilised society, especially its values, that is slowly becoming normalised so that those who uphold things like Christian principles are the ones who get targeted. Pride, is indeed a mortal sin. Quite why that word was chosen originally is not clear. Apparently, the original marches in the 1970s were called Gay Liberation/ Gay Freedom but according to Wikipedia, that bastion of altered entries…
In the 1980s, there was a cultural shift in the gay movement. Activists of a less radical nature began taking over the march committees in different cities, and they dropped “Gay Liberation” and “Gay Freedom” from the names, replacing them with “Gay Pride”.
Hmmm, I doubt they were less radical, I would say that, if true, they were more radical and used a word associated with a deadly sin on purpose. Look how language has been used over the past 20 years – sick is something great, evil is good, bad is good – is this coincidence? The twisting of language usage is important to be aware of – look at all those so called virtue signallers and the messages they keep broadcasting: lies and spin and repetition, basically brainwashing
I think they were a lot less radical. Frederick II. reportedly once said Believe whatever you want but obey! The modern variant of that is Shag whatever you want but obey! Not much liberation or freedom left in that.
My suspicion is that this chap subscribes to the wrong religion. Speaking of which, something tells me Mayor Khan will be positively salivating with glee at the prospect of this property development on his turf;
”Asif Aziz, 56, a property tycoon known as ‘Mr West End’, is establishing the three-storey house of prayer and Islamic centre inside the Trocadero, which is situated between Piccadilly Circus and Soho.
The three-storey house of prayer, which will have a capacity of 390 worshippers, will fill the space left vacant when a Metro cinema closed down in 2006.
Previous proposals for a 1,000-capacity mosque on the site were withdrawn in 2020 following a backlash from residents as well as far-right groups.
But a planning application for a smaller development was approved at the end of May by Westminster Council.
A council spokesperson confirmed to The Mail on Sunday: ‘A planning application by the Aziz Foundation to convert a part of the London Trocadero was approved by the council’s planning committee in May 2023.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12304051/London-billionaire-build-mosque-famous-Trocadero.html
Seems to be a lovely person.
In 2017, the tycoon argued at the High Court that his estranged wife was not entitled to his then estimated £1.1billion fortune as they faked a marriage certificate in Malawi in order to bring an adopted child into the UK.
The couple reached and out-of-court settlement shortly afterwards.
Luckily for the UK. The Conservative Party is finished. God our creator will never be finished.
What a lovely guy – saw him interviewed on GB News. I can’t help noticing that the woke Left (including in the “Conservative” Party) is never more comfortable cancelling Christians than when they are from ethnic minorities.
Of course, if he was Muslim, this would not have happened.
I wonder how long before he’s de-banked as well?
“however, I must also be free to express my beliefs without fear.”
Ufortunately that’s not true anymore.
Soon only organisations and people who adhere to woke ideology will be able to apply for and receive government grants and services?