Gay Teachings Ban Introduced in Poland

Gay Teachings Ban Introduced in Poland

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(Warsaw) Education Minister Roman Giertych unveiled draft legislation Wednesday that would make it a criminal offence to "promote homosexual propaganda" in schools.

The government has threatening to bring in the legislation for nearly a year despite objections from Polish LGBT rights groups and from the European Union.

If passed the measure would essentially censor all discussion of homosexuality in schools and other academic institutions. LGBT organizations would be barred from schools and "teachers who reveal their homosexuality will be fired from work."

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In a time where more and more countries and governments start to acknowledge the rights of people that were born gay, it's easy to become optimistic about the position of gay people in the world, but not all countries are developping for the best.
Poland seems to be one of these countries.

Poland's governing Law and Justice Party positions itself as a champion of Roman Catholic values, and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski recently said that it was "not in the interest of any society to increase the number of homosexuals."

What this means in practice? Legislation to have teachers found to be openly gay in Polish schools fired, as proposed by Education Minister Miroslaw Orzechowski.
This comment led to the European Parliament announcing it would launch an investigation into whether Poland was violating any EU anti-discrimination laws.

I feel sorry for the LGBT community in Poland, and hope they find the strength to keep on resisting the discrimination and abuse they encounter as a result of their Roman Cathlolic government.

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[edit on 17-5-2007 by Jakko]

Gay is learned, not born. I think gays having children and teaching gay stuff should be banned. Also some people think God Hates Fags.

Originally posted by detonator
Gay is learned, not born. I think gays having children and teaching gay stuff should be banned. Also some people think God Hates Fags.

Yes I saw this website and I find it pretty disgusting.
I am gay (orientation, not sex) myself, and I was born like this, I can not make myself straight(orientation, not sex).
If I could turn myself straight I would have done it a long time ago.

There's an interesting article about the choice issue over here:
seattletimes.nwsource.com...

Just to keep this thread from derailing, I started another thread about choice vs born discussions:
www.abovepolitics.com...