{"id":2494,"date":"2012-01-03T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:11:43","slug":"tesco-rattled-by-christian-voice-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/tesco-rattled-by-christian-voice-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco rattled by Christian Voice campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Outside Baker Street Tesco Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christian Voice\u00a0has dismissed\u00a0an announcement from Tesco that they will stop funding London Gay Pride after 2012<\/a> as ‘insignificant’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the Guardian faithfully reports, Tesco have not backed down<\/a>\u00a0on their decision to fund the display of depravity.<\/p>\n

Tesco dropped their support for Cancer Research ‘Race for Life’ in November 2011 only to promise \u00a330,000 to the contentious July 2012 homosexual event days after. The Tesco decision not to fund Gay Pride thereafter comes after a month-long campaign of protest and boycott led by pressure group Christian Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Tesco announcement, which merely says they are not going to do something they never said they would do, has been met with fury from secularists, with gay activists spitting rivets on the homosexual online rag ‘Pink News’<\/a>. Some have injected a note of realism, recognising that Tesco are still sponsoring London ‘World Pride’ 2012, but others are calling for a Tesco boycott of their own.\u00a0 The anger from homosexuals even forced Tesco into yet another announcement, that they remain \u2018fully committed\u2019 to \u2018gay staff\u2019 and \u2018practical benefits\u2019 for them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green said today,<\/p>\n

‘Tesco haven’t actually budged an inch.\u00a0 They are still determined to give \u00a330,000 to London Gay Pride 2012 as\u00a0they said originally.\u00a0 And by announcing that they will continue to support their in-store homosexual contact group ‘Out at Tesco’ in new ways after 2012 they have made matters worse not better.<\/p>\n

‘But Tesco are clearly worried.\u00a0 \u00a0Christian Voice led the campaign against Tesco on 18th November by providing our members and friends with target addresses and emails for Tesco executives, including CEO Philip Clarke and Chairman Sir Richard Broadbent.<\/p>\n

‘We have printed thousands of leaflets pointing out the evils of homosexual practice and calling for shoppers to boycott the supermarket giant. Dozens of our members have been handing these out in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

‘I was pleased to see the Christian Institute pick up on our boycott idea a week before Christmas, but what is really important is spreading the message among those who do not visit Christian campaign websites.<\/p>\n

‘That is why I and other Christian Voice members spent some time on the day before Christmas Eve leafleting shoppers outside the Tesco Express stores in Baker Street and Melcombe Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘In 2012 we need to step up our campaign.\u00a0 Firms sponsor events, individuals\u00a0or sporting teams to associate themselves with that product’s ‘brand’.\u00a0 Stars lose sponsorship if their behaviour drops below a certain standard.\u00a0 The ‘gay pride’ brand suggests not wholesomeness but depravity, immorality, drug use, aggression, division and religious hatred.\u00a0 If the Lord blesses our campaign with more prayer and more willing hands, Tesco will be increasingly identified with the negative ‘gay pride brand’ throughout 2012.<\/p>\n

‘We have also launched a petition<\/a> and above all, last month we called for prayer for confusion in the Tesco Boardroom, for sales and profits to fall and for God to have the victory.<\/p>\n

‘Confusion is now certainly reigning in the Tesco HQ in Cheshunt, with one inept decision after another, firstly dithering while Tesco’s Head of Research and Development, Nick Lansley, calls Christians ‘evil’<\/a> then annoying the gays with an unnecessary announcement while failing to placate decent people, and then trying to pacify the gays hours later. Christmas sales must have taken a knock to cause such panic.’<\/p>\n

Tesco’s initial decision to give \u00a330,000 toLondon’s aggressive, divisive display of political muscle and depravity was the result of intense lobbying inside Tesco from Lansley, a militant anti-Christian homosexual who filmed himself reciting the blasphemous Gay News poem and used his blog, on which he gave his full Tesco job description, to describe Christians opposing gay marriage as ‘evil.’<\/p>\n

Stephen Green continued: ‘What made Tesco’s decision to bankroll Gay Pride all the worse was that they ended support for Cancer Research days before. They stopped saving precious lives in favour of propping up a deviant lifestyle.<\/p>\n

‘It was good to find out last night that Tesco are rattled by our protest and were wobbling even as we were leafleting their stores.<\/p>\n

‘It isn’t a victory in any sense yet, but it is an encouragement to press in harder with getting the leaflets into the hands of more shoppers in the New Year. Above all it just shows what power Christians can harness when they pray and act wholeheartedly in unity in a righteous cause.<\/p>\n

‘The Governments’ decision to press ahead with so-called ‘gay marriage’ is suddenly looking rather vulnerable.<\/p>\n

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY that Tesco will back down, and that many more Christians will join our campaign to leaflet Tesco customers<\/a> and spread word of the boycott and the reasons behind it.<\/p>\n

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