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Local authorities needs to be held to account in the event that they fly the contentious Progress Pride flag with out planning permission, a Christian candidate has stated after efficiently difficult a London council.
Maureen Martin, the Christian Peoples’ Alliance candidate for Lewisham East, threatened to hunt a High Court injunction if the council did not take away the flag, which was flown from the roof of the city corridor throughout an election.
The Progress Pride flag differs from the standard Pride flag with its addition of black and brown stripes to symbolize marginalised LGBTQ+ folks of color, and pink, blue, and white stripes from the transgender flag.
Unlike the standard rainbow Pride flag, the Progress Pride flag requires particular permission to be flown outdoors a constructing as a result of it’s handled as promoting.
In a letter to the council by way of her attorneys, Miss Martin stated: “You will admire that the realm of transgender rights is a extremely contentious political difficulty within the United Kingdom.
“You can even bear in mind that the Equality Act 2010 doesn’t defend gender as a protected attribute.”
The council agreed to take down the flag “to keep away from any concern”.
Responding to the result, Miss Martin stated: “This yr, particularly in June, we have been seeing councils and companies displaying the Progress Pride flag, unlawfully and sometimes with out permission or correct session.
“The transgender ideology behind this flag has been confirmed to be dangerous to a whole bunch of weak kids.
“It is unacceptable that Lewisham Council and different councils throughout the nation have and are making such an excessive public and ideological assertion on such contested points, even throughout elections.
“Greater consciousness should be urgently raised about what these flags stand for, and public authorities flying them should be dropped at account.”
Andrea Williams, chief government of the Christian Legal Centre, which supported Miss Martin, stated: “These flags should not be dominating our city centres and neighbourhoods. They are intimidating and exclusionary in direction of Christians and others who do not imagine in Pride.”
