from The Christian Institute
The Premier League is facing heavy criticism for promoting transgender ideology through its ‘Premier League with Pride’ campaign.
Linzi Smith, who successfully challenged the Football Association’s association with Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign last year, intends to bring a legal case against the Football Association (FA) for continuing to promote the “highly political LGBTQ+ agenda”.
‘Premier League with Pride’, a new annual event for ‘LGBTQ+ history month’, decorates stadiums with rainbow flags and provides inclusion training for all players, including children’s teams. The campaign also covers the Primary Stars school programme, which includes pushing children as young as five to “demonstrate active allyship to the LGBTQ+ community by creating rainbow flags”.
‘Hypocrisy’
Smith, who is a Newcastle United fan, said: “Given that The FA backed off on rainbow laces, I was shocked to find they’d approved this new ‘Premier League with Pride’ initiative. With its Pride symbols and politically charged language, it’s essentially a rebranding of the rainbow laces campaign.”
“The rules governing The FA specifically state that for any players and staff under its jurisdiction, religious and political messaging is off-limits. The frustration is they don’t seem to think these rules apply to them: they continue to promote the highly political LGBTQ+ agenda.
“When I see players, on the one hand, threatened with sanctions for expressing their religious beliefs, and on the other, being pressured – for the sake of a political agenda – into wearing Pride clothing that conflicts with their faith, all I can see is hypocrisy and double standards. And I refuse to ignore it. In my view, it’s a red card.”