Church in row over plan to show Pride flag on altar over claims it politicises ... trends now
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A historic church’s controversial plan to display a gay Pride flag on its altar is to be ruled on in a landmark legal case after protesters complained that it was ‘politicising’ a place of worship.
St Nicholas Church in Leicester had hung the colourful flags at weekend services but then last year switched them for a much larger permanent version.
Church reverend Canon Karen Rooms claims the huge fabric Progress Pride Flag is merely a way of letting visitors know they are ‘welcome and safe’.
But opponents, including parishioners and General Synod members have accused the church, parts of which date from around 900AD, of ‘woke’ virtue signalling.
St Nicholas Church in Leicester (above) is being accused of allowing 'moral anarchy'
A test case will now be heard by the Church of England’s consistory court, with campaigners warning it will ‘open the floodgates’ to ideological imagery in other
