Baroness Fox, an Independent member of the House of Lords, has commended legal motion aimed toward stopping civil service participation in Pride events.
The Christian Institute recently initiated legal proceedings against each the civil service and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The case argues that by participating in Pride events on taxpayer time and funds, the supposedly neutral civil service is actually endorsing a highly controversial political position.
The case follows similar motion brought against Northumbria Police during which a judge ruled last July that the participation of uniformed cops in a Pride event had been illegal.
That decision got here in response to a case brought by a gender critical lesbian, Linzi Smith, who argued that police participation in a Pride march indicated support for a selected political ideology and that consequently members of the general public couldn’t trust the police to fairly adjudicate disagreements referring to that ideology.
The Christian Institute is attempting to have the identical principle applied across all sectors of presidency.
Baroness Fox, a former Marxist with secular leanings, said she supported the concept of public servants performing their primary functions slightly than getting side-tracked by “politicised equality initiatives”.
Speaking during a debate within the Lords on the Crime and Policing Bill, she said, “For the general public, the concept of a politicised police force fuels the argument that the police could also be unfair or discriminatory in who they aim for, for instance, non-crime hate incidents.
“Though we have now seen the back of those, they were the blight of many an individual’s life and destroyed many voters’ lives.
“We need reassurance that the general public sector equality duty has not been used to distract the police or to politicise policing. All the evidence would imply that it has been, and that’s something that the Government must be concerned about.”
The Christian Institute’s deputy director, Simon Calvert, has previously commented on how blatant support for Pride has been within the civil service.
He said, “I even have been working in public policy for many years. I’ve been shocked by what number of civil servants wear Pride lanyards in our meetings with them, even when those meetings are specifically about conflicts with that ideology.
“Sitting in front of a phalanx of civil servants in rainbow lanyards gives the look that their minds are closed on the problems we’re discussing. It actually doesn’t communicate the form of neutrality that taxpayers expect of civil servants.”
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