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James May is Right: Pride is Becoming Authoritarian – and Christians are Bearing the Brunt

by Julian Mann
13 June 2024 7:00 PM

As broadcaster James May comes under fire on X for saying Pride risks being authoritarian by displaying “Too Much Bunting”, I have noticed Pride ratcheting up its presence in my local area.

Pride: while I have observed and admired what you have achieved over my lifetime, may I respectfully suggest that you are borderline guilty of Too Much Bunting (TMB). It may be seen as authoritarian, and therefore oppressive.

Please remember that some terrible things, with which… pic.twitter.com/DsMcikkaVF

— James May (@MrJamesMay) June 13, 2024

The Tesco Express convenience store about five minutes’ walk from my North Lancashire home is displaying a large board festooned with the Pride colours at the entrance: “Standing Proud Together. We support the LGBTQ+ community and charities all year round, creating a safe space for everyone, every day.”

There was no such board at the store last year but the Tesco superstore in Carnforth, Cumbria, where I used to shop regularly did display one.

The Westmorland Gazette quoted my letter to Tesco HQ in a news story:

I am writing to raise concerns about the prominent sign promoting the Pride movement which I saw today at the entrance to the Tesco store in Carnforth. I am a regular customer and Clubcard holder.

Why is Tesco promoting a controversial neo-Marxist ideological cum political movement at this store? Would the company have shown a sign promoting Brexit or Remain during the 2016 referendum? 

If the reason for promoting Pride is because Tesco wishes to commend the work done by LGBT charities, that surely raises the question why the store does not show prominent signs with a Christian or Islamic symbol commending the charitable works done in the name of these world religions?

As a result of what I saw today, I intend to transfer my custom to Aldi. This is sad for me because the staff at the Carnforth store are unusually friendly and efficient.

Tesco did not answer the specific points I tried to raise. A spokesperson responded: “Everyone’s welcome at Tesco. We support LGBTQ+ equality and accept people without exception. We’re proud to be a part of Pride again this year and will continue to strive to ensure everyone feels welcome, every day.”

It is little inconvenience to me (and better exercise) to walk further to the Co-op convenience store which is not displaying a Pride sign. But what would I do if all the food stores were displaying Pride signs?

I suspect I would not be the only Christian locally to come to the conclusion that a Pride-free food outlet would be needed, serving all customers. But would local Christians be allowed to launch such a venture? The motivation for the business would be difficult to hide. Those of us behind the venture would almost certainly think it wrong not to come clean about our reasons. Is it not likely under these circumstances that we would encounter obstruction from the local authority?

Evangelical Christian campaigners Voice for Justice U.K. (VfJ) this week published a report on how LGBT ideology is marginalising orthodox Christians, which is all the more relevant for being published during ‘Pride month’.

The VfJ survey of 1,562 U.K. Christians about their experiences of intolerance or discrimination pointed out: “While there should be no hierarchy in the list of protected characteristics (under the Equality Act 2010), this appears to be contradicted by the reality. It appears that there is a hierarchy of protected characteristics, with all things LGBT+ at the top and ethnicity slightly below that.”

The VfJ press release quoted Nick Fletcher, Conservative MP (now parliamentary candidate) for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme (the Don Valley in the 2019 General Election):

Christianity is the cornerstone for so many of the values we take for granted. If it were not for Christianity our tolerance, our diversity, freedom of conscience and love for our neighbour would become a thing of the past.

This report needs to be circulated widely among those working in human resources, those responsible for education, as well as employers, church leaders, civil servants and those responsible for policy making.

We all need to wake up to the attack on Christianity in our society, before it turns into something even more sinister. This report is a vital step in sounding the alarm.

Fletcher is defending a majority of just over 3,000 from 2019 in his ‘Red Wall’ seat in South Yorkshire with a Reform candidate standing, so unfortunately his prophetic Christian voice may be lost to Parliament on July 4th.

The Pride march through Britain’s institutions, public services and businesses appears at this point to be unstoppable.

Julian Mann, a former Church of England vicar, is an Evangelical journalist based in Lancashire.

Tags: Cancel CultureCensorshipChristianityIntoleranceJames MayLGBTLondonPridePride flagPride MonthToo Much BuntingWoke Gobbledegook

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

Are you sure.? This is not what those nice people at the BBC have been telling me…

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John
John
2 years ago

Also, as carbon dioxide levels follow temperature by 500-1000 years, then if there’s a 1500 year temperature cycle then there’s a similar carbon dioxide level cycle with a phase difference of approximately +750 years, if the temperature is a sine wave then CO2 levels follow a cosine wave.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
2 years ago

Those pushing net zero don’t want to know, climate change is a profitable venture. Already rich but wanting more, they’ve spent their lives in incomparable luxury and excessiveness, most people would have to live many lifetimes to reach a year of their self indulgence. Now they tell us, its for ‘our grandchildren’, (Rishi) and others, I’m sure his children won’t suffer, now, due to net zero, but billions will.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago

Randall Carson discusses this very thing (along with some other fascinating subject on human history) on Joe Rogan.
Its long and seven years old, but worth a watch:

https://youtu.be/G0Cp7DrvNLQ

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

You only have to look at the way modern weather maps use orange, red and dark red smudged colour that resembles fire to realise we’re being played. I did semiotics as part of Film Studies A-Level 30 years ago and we were taught about how manipulation of image affects emotional reaction (it was, ironically enough, steeped in Marxist Critical Theory so I got to learn all their tricks).
It reeks of the Nudge Unit, whose existence isn’t even well known outside of the non-legacy media. The reason the legacy media isn’t going after the very dangerous nudge units and the violation of democracy their existence represents must be that they’ve been threatened or bought off in some way. State psy-ops units using brainwashing techniques on citizens ought to be front page news.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

If their existence appeared anywhere at present, it would most likely be on GB News. Only a couple of years old, but it’s doing a good job at the moment.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Anthropocene began with European colonisation and mass slavery

This must have been some time before the Greco-Persian wars, then, as the Greek city states erected colonies around the Mediterranean and generally, had masses of slaves. Sparta is a noteworthy example here as the city was ruled by a relatively small class of Dorians who were originally invaders and had turned the original population into a slave class (the helots). Except that slavery was obviously already common practice all over the world before the era of classical Greece.

The classic Greeks were also pretty racist: They believed their people to be divided into the races Aeolian, Acheans, Dorians and Ionians, all with certain hereditary traits, and summarily referred to all other peoples as barbarians (they considered to be below them).

Can some $deity please save us from all these uneducated morons with fancy titles who believe the history of mankind started when America was discovered and colonized?

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Maslin has explained that the Anthropocene began with European colonisation and mass slavery.

Just in case this isn’t clear to someone: This ludicrous statement of (North-)American exceptionalism, ie, that something which has never before happened anywhere in the world occurred when Europeans started settling in America[*] and that this inherent evil is the cause why the planet is doomed unless something is done to overcome evil Europe is the final nail in the coffin of climate change. We can as well call that critical weather theory
and file it among all the other woke nonsense (some) people in the USA invented because they’re forever pissed off that they had to learn stuff in school (in the 1960s) they never cared about when all they really wanted to do is to go on holiday to interestingly exotic places and generally screw around as much as possible.

[*] An example: The bubonic plague came to Europe from Asia and killed as much as 80% of the population in some regions. Similar events have happened with other diseases, most of them earlier.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
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It looks like the bubonic plague is the model on which the Davos Deviants have based their planning. At least in terms of outcomes anyway.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

That was a reference to Maslin’s article. A lot of American Indians died of various infectious diseases the Europeans brought with them which had become endemic among them. According to him this Depopulated (!!1) northern America and the (evil) Europeans than just occupied the essentially empty continent. That’s absolutely laughable, considering that the history of early Euroean settlements is one of constant warfare with the native population, with the latter more often than not in the much better position. Eg, one of the people who became victims of the Salem witch trials was (among other things) accused of being in league with the devil because he had miraculously survived a number of Indian attacks where most of the other settlers he had been living with perished.

It’s also absolutely not unheard of, that’s why I mentioned the black death which presumably originated in China, travelled along with the traders until it had reached Europe and then seriously decimated the European population. Stuff like this happens on this planet and it has happened at all times and to all people.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

Could you please send a copy of this to Prince Charles. He assured us the other day that 3 days of very hot weather because the wind was blowing from the Sahara is proof that he’s right about climate change.

As for Maslin no longer lending his credibility by debating climate change scepticism, the obvious answer is “what credibility?” He’s a propagandist ….. a scientist will ALWAYS debate because science is NEVER settled.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
1 year ago

This is a fantastic graph for those that haven’t seen it. It compares the media’s massively zoomed in representation of our recent warming to the same graph zoomed out and plotted it on a scale of daily human temperature experience across the world. Send this to anyone zombie you might know who’s ever used the term ‘climate emergency’..

Media climate emergency vs real world.png
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