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Hephaestion
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posted 04 October 2005 06:54 AM
Homosexuality "unnatural" new Polish leader declares
quote: (Warsaw) Poland's likely new leader called homosexuality unnatural in an interview published Monday, and argued that the state should intervene if homosexuals try to "infect" others with their behavior.
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, nominated by the Law and Justice party to lead the next government as prime minister, told the Polish edition of Newsweek magazine that propagating homosexuality constituted an infringement on the freedom of other people.
"It is unnatural. Family is natural and the state should safeguard the family," Marcinkiewicz said, echoing the views of other leaders of his conservative party.
"If such a person tries to infect others with their homosexuality, then the state has to intervene in such an abuse of freedom," he said. He did not elaborate.
Marcinkiewicz said he judged people by their actions, not sexual orientation, but stressed that "promoting homosexuality" - through parades or campaigns by gay rights groups, for instance- was unacceptable to him.
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Hephaestion
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posted 04 October 2005 10:00 AM
I guess they've turned Auschwitz into a museum/memorial now, but not that long ago (last year sometime) "Tape" sent me the URL for a site he'd come across that showed a picture of the front of the camp, and all along the fence that surrounded the buildings, there were these posters hanging there (in Polish, of course). It showed two "stick figure" symbols, with one bent over at the waist and the other standing behind, with a big circle around them and a diagonal slash across the two figures. The translation from the Polish, according to the site, was something to the effect of "no faggots".
To say I was outraged (we *both* were) is an understatement, particularly because Auschwitz was apparently one of the main ones where homosexuals were sent to be killed. To see those posters hanging there, outside *that* place...
And sure, some far-right neo-nazi gang of creeps may have hung them up there, but I seem to recall that the site said something about them hanging there for "weeks", or something to that effect. I found that to be *truly* outrageous.
But I partially disagree with you, Stock. It's not all Poles who are like that, any more than it was all Poles who were behind the anti-Jewish pogroms. But it's too gawddamn many, that's for sure. And the fact that posters like that could be hung up right in front of Auschwitz, like they haven't learned a bloody thing...
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Reality. Bites.
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posted 04 October 2005 12:10 PM
Encouraging note from the "times are changing" department:In the Toronto print edition of "24 Hours" (the Quebecor/Sun Media free daily) the article on this was headlined "Gay Bashing" Online it's "Gay Bashing in Poland" http://toronto.24hrs.ca/News/2005/10/04/1247074-sun.html
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Hephaestion
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posted 11 October 2005 03:19 AM
Homophobe twin in runoff for presidency quote: Sunday's presidential election produced no clear winner, pitting ultra conservative Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski against moderate Donald Tusk in a runoff to be held October 23.Trusk, a pro-business candidate won 36 percent of the vote Sunday while Kaczynski, who had been widely expected to win a clear majority, took 33 percent of the vote. While Trusk is seen as pro-Europe and likely to support some rights for gays in the country, Kaczynski is the candidate of the far right Law and Justice party run by his twin brother. [...] With support for Kaczynski and Tusk so close it is impossible to determine who has an edge going into the runoff. While the prime minister and his government wield most executive power in Poland, the president is commander in chief of the armed forces, can veto laws and direct foreign policy.
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Hephaestion
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posted 12 February 2006 11:35 PM
Gay protest greets Polish president in Chicago quote: A noisy protest greeted Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Chicago on the weekend to draw attention to human rights abuses in the former Communist country. Members of the Gay Liberation Network dogged the Polish leader over two days in the Windy City and denounced Mayor Richard M. Daley and Gov. Rod Blagojevich for meeting with Kaczynski. [...] Gay Liberation Network coordinator Bob Schwartz said Daley and Blagojevich should have turned down a meeting with Kaczynski. "Kaczynski denied gays the right to assemble and march in Warsaw," Schwartz said. He also condemned the president's continued opposition to LGBT rights in Poland. Another protestor, Andy Thayer called Kaczynski a "vile and disgusting man." Kaczynski was honored at a dinner hosted by the Polish American Congress. Before coming to Chicago, he met in Washington with President Bush.
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greenie
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posted 09 March 2006 04:09 PM
quote: Originally posted by Hephaestion:
Just a word to the wise. You are supporting the statement of a former babbler who has been banned. Repeatedly. Under numerous different screen names.Can't say you didn't know...
Duly noted. Would one of the aliases of that former babbler be "Ghost of the Navigator"?
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