Tesco has announced that it is to sponsor Britain’s largest gay festival, ‘Pride London’.
The news came shortly after Tesco announced that it was ending their partnership with Cancer Research, after formally working with them for more than ten years.
A spokesman for Tesco however said that the decision to drop its support “is not connected to our £30,000 sponsorship for Pride, which is one of hundreds of community and charitable events that we will be supporting next year.”
“It is not a case of favouring one community cause over another. The £30,000 we are giving to Pride London was an entirely separate decision. We support a great many charities and good causes and will continue to do so.”
Tesco’s contribution will be used to run an entertainment area for families and children at next year’s festival. Reports from a previous gay pride rally in London found evidence of openly paedophile participants marching with the other rally members.
Francis Phillips, a commentator at The Catholic Herald, said:
“Tesco is a supermarket. Its remit has been to sell good-quality food and other items at very reasonable prices, and in this it has been hugely successful. Why has it now aligned itself with an aggressive political organisation such as Pride London?”
Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, said:
“Lots of commercial organisations are jumping at the chance to promote homosexual practices. They do so because it is fashionable and because they are encouraged to do so by homosexual lobby groups. However, they need to think more deeply about the long term impact this will have on marriage, the family and children.”
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