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Council caves in and removes Pride flags. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not long ago I posted an article about how Christians were trying to have the Pride flags removed. Now the council has given in and removed them.

*It is not clear how many people complained but one was Cornerstone Bookshop, run by a Christian charity, which said it was “grateful for the speedy removal” of the Pride flag.

Judy Crook, who runs the bookshop, told the Guardian that, though as “a point of basic Christian belief, we welcome everybody”, they did not want to promote homosexuality and “we’re not happy with the gay rights situation”.

“We have to respect other people’s views. But we didn’t want the flag flying outside our shop.”

In a statement, the bookshop added: “Fortunately, we are blessed in this country with freedom of conscience and freedom of religion legislation, enshrined in the Equality Act of 2010 which allows religion or belief as a protected characteristic. We are therefore very grateful for the speedy removal of this flag when we raised our concern to the council.”*

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TERFs have done amazing things for the homophobic movement. That bookshop would've been too scared to utter a word a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Turns out when you coopt homophobic talking points you empower homophobes. Who could have possibly predicted this?