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By Jon Brown<\/a>, Christian Post Reporter Friday, July 04, 2025\"ProgressProgress Pride flags are displayed on Regent Street in London in 2023. | YouTube\/BBC London<\/p>\n

London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Thursday promoted a controversial display of more than 300 Progress Pride flags on an iconic street in the city that has prompted pushback from some Christians.<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow at Pride in London we\u2019ll send a message to the world: in our city you are free to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love. We must take a stand against those seeking to roll back hard-won rights,” wrote Khan, a Muslim who has served as mayor of London since 2016.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow at Pride in London we\u2019ll send a message to the world: in our city you are free to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love.<\/p>\n

We must take a stand against those seeking to roll back hard-won rights. pic.twitter.com\/zGPiOMQs3X<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Khan posted a photo of the Progress Pride flags with which the Westminster City Council annually replaces the U.K.’s national Union Jack flags on Regent Street in late June.<\/p>\n

Replies were disabled on Khan’s tweet, though many quote-tweeted<\/a> it to offer their remarks, with several users likening the government-endorsed LGBT flag display to Nazi flag displays in Germany.<\/p>\n

“Quite a display of government power,” Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“‘The neutral public sphere,'” mocked Harvard legal scholar Adrian Vermeule.<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow in London, they will send a message to the world: in their city, gay sex is the highest good to be celebrated and the pinnacle of their identity,” said<\/a> Erik Reed, founder and lead pastor of The Journey Church in Lebanon, Tennessee. “Congratulations, London. Truly stunning and brave.”<\/p>\n

Some users suggested Khan’s tweet indicates the British capital has been conquered by left-wing ideology.<\/p>\n

Reed echoed the popular X account Libs of TikTok, which tweeted, “LONDON HAS BEEN CONQUERED RIP.”<\/p>\n

“Be honest about all who have conquered London. Submission,” wrote<\/a> WorldStrat President Jim Hanson.<\/p>\n

William Wolfe, who serves as executive director at Center for Baptist Leadership, used Khan’s tweet to suggest members of his own denomination would support such a display in the name of pluralism.<\/p>\n

“Postwar Liberal Baptists will see this and go, ‘Amen. That\u2019s what pluralism and religious liberty is all about. Better this than scary Christian Nationalism,'” said<\/a> Wolfe.<\/p>\n

Joshua Charles, a Catholic author and former White House speechwriter, warned the behavior Khan is endorsing has eternal consequences.<\/p>\n

“They will be ‘rolled back’ whether you like it or not, Mr. [Khan],” he said<\/a>. “The options are: 1. Repentance now; or 2. Eternal punishment later.”<\/p>\n

Christian Concern, a London-based nonprofit that often represents Christians alleging discrimination in the U.K. and elsewhere, last month threatened to sue<\/a> the Westminster City Council for the display, claiming it’s an implicit threat to those who disagree with LGBT ideology.<\/p>\n

“The Pride Progress flag [proclaims] a secular religious ideology which seeks to group together categories of people based upon their sexual preferences and identity: in doing this, it creates division between those people who do not recognize themselves under the umbrella of its myriad causes and those that do,” the group said.<\/p>\n

“Those who do not join under the Flag have been considered as ‘hateful,’ ‘discriminatory,’ ‘intolerant’ and ‘bigoted.'”<\/p>\n

Last November, Khan invited<\/a> President Donald Trump attend a Pride festival in London and Republicans to worship with him at a mosque. Khan has denounced Trump as a racist, sexist and a homophobe<\/a>, and Trump called him a “stone-cold loser”<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n

Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to\u00a0jon.brown@christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n