Police presence strong at Polish pride march in wake of violence

Investing.com (Reuters) ^ | August 10, 2019 | unsigned

[Mrs. Don-o]

WARSAW (Reuters) - More than 1000 people took part in a pride parade in the central Polish city of Plock protected by a cordon of armed police as LGBT rights became a hot button issue in Catholic Poland ahead of a parliamentary election in October.

Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has made hostility to gays a central focus of its campaign, depicting LGBT rights as a dangerous foreign idea that undermines traditional values.

A pride parade in the provincial city of Bialystok in July was marred by violence after anti-gay protesters chased people through the streets and beat them.

Critics say PiS has fomented anti-gay sentiment and helped lead the violence against the LGBT community in Poland.

Marchers walked through the streets of Plock waving rainbow flags while surrounded by police in riot gear, TV footage from private broadcaster TVN showed.

Politicians, including Robert Biedron, one of Poland's first openly gay politicians who launched the leftist Wiosna party earlier this year, attended the march.

A group of counter-protesters gathered at the Plock parade and chanted homophobic insults but were blocked from interacting with parade participants by the heavy police presence.

A Plock police spokeswoman told Reuters there were around 950 counter-protesters in total and that two people were detained.

No serious incidents took place, the spokeswoman added, although there were a few scuffles with police, TV footage showed.

"For many years in Poland not much was done to handle such violence. It's time for these hateful crimes to be punished," Biedron said in a speech ahead of the march, broadcast on TVN.

ELECTION SUPPORT

PiS has maintained steady support in the polls ahead of the October 13 vote, despite a recent scandal where Poland's former parliament speaker used government aircraft for private trips.

Analysts say PiS' criticism of LGBT rights could be a strategy to rally its conservative, rural base.

If parliamentary elections were to take place on Sunday, 43% of Poles would vote for the ruling PiS, the poll, carried out between August 6 and 7, said.

The opposition Civic Coalition would garner 28%, while a leftist bloc of three parties, including the progressive Wiosna, would earn 12%.

Members of Poland's Catholic Church, seen as a close ally of PiS, have also been critical of LGBT rights in recent weeks.

Marek Jedraszewski, one of Poland's most senior Catholics, earlier this month compared gay rights campaigners to Poland's former communist rulers in a sermon given to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising.

On Saturday, around three thousand people gathered in Cracow to express support for Jedraszewski, a Cracow police spokesman told Reuters.

Senior PiS members of parliament, including the deputy speakers of both the senate and parliament, were among those praying outside the Cracow Curia, private broadcaster Radio Zet said.

Earlier this week, hundreds gathered in Warsaw in front of the apostolic nunciature to protest against Jedraszewski's comments and demand his resignation.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Build-up toward an election? Or toward a war?

What in God's name is happening in Poland?

From the coverage, it looks like in Poland --- as here, as everywhere? --- it's the corporations who are funding the LGBT takeover of Polish culture. They are pushing for laws to illegalize opposition to the happy, fun, colorful, inclusive, smiley-face, beautiful-people, sexual disorientation and family disintegration movement.

Why do foreign investors and corporations love this stuff?

Yet something seems to be standing in their way:

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God bless the 15-year-old who stands for God and Poland.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Isn’t pride one of the seven deadly sins?

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . depicting LGBT rights as a dangerous foreign idea that undermines traditional values."

DEPICTING? It is absolutely clear that LGBTQ rights threatens traditional values. And it is absolutely clear that they don't just want to be left alone, but want their message brought into the schools, into the corporate world, and the media, so that anyone who disagrees is either silenced or punished.

And now we see that they want access to our children from a very young age, to sow gender confusion and a precocious interest in adult sexual topics. And we are seeing the beginnings of efforts to punish churches for maintaining traditional sexual values. Before long, I expect to see efforts to remove the tax-exempt status of churches that do not support the LGBTQ agenda.

[TheTimeOfMan]

According to a Yale University study, conducted by a gay, male professor, homosexuals:

Have a suicide rate 20-30 times (TIMES) higher than the straight population.

Have serious communicable disease rates 20-30 times higher than the straight population.

Suffer from clinical depression at rates 20-30 times higher than the straight population.

Commit violent assaults at rates 20-30 times higher than the straight population.

Have murder rates 20-30 times higher than the straight population.

Are almost universally highly promiscuous - in contradiction to the propaganda.

[a fool in paradise]

Homofascists are supremacists, they don’t seek ‘equality’. They want power to stomp out your religion.

[QBFimi]

Someday my prince will come:

https://meaws.com/gay-couple-jakub-dawid-get-engaged-100-times-to-question-polish-citizens/

[normbal]

wonder if the police will show as strongly for upcoming parades for greed, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth.

[momincombatboots]

My personal one time experience bears this out. I was very friendly and loving to a homosexual. We had lots of interesting conversations, though some were nauseating.
One day he went into the darkness explaining in a very detailed way how a woman who angered him should be raped.
I walked away from that. After he committed suicide, I regretted walking away.
I have never heard such evil since that time. Anyone else?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Are almost universally highly promiscuous - in contradiction to the propaganda."

Some are even publicly admitting it, not out of shame, but in upholding promiscuity as a MARK of TRUE homosexuality. They have complained that the undue focus on "married" homosexuals like Pete Buttigieg "domesticates" homosexuality in a way that they find booth false and offensive. For them, true homosexuality is "liberation" from any form of traditional family life, and is a celebration of unrestricted lust and sexual experimentation.

[3boysdad]

Ergo the return of Sodom and Gomorra.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Homofascists are supremacists, they don’t seek ‘equality’. They want power to stomp out your religion."

True. We are seeing the beginnings on public homo-supremacism in the statements of people like Pete Buttigieg and Megan Rapinoe, who view homosexuality as superior to heterosexuality.

There is a creeping totalitarianism in the LGBTQ movement, and when they infiltrate organizations, those organizations eventually become openly homosexual in their root mission and public persona.

When homosexuals dominate a city, we see rainbow crosswalks, rainbow flags on public buildings, pro-homosexual messages or symbols on police cars, and pro-homosexual curricula in the schools. The "pride" parade becomes the biggest social event of the year, and woe to any politician who doesn't participate. Corporations scramble to be sponsors of these events. During "pride" MONTH (one day or week isn't sufficient), businesses compete to have the most pro-homosexual displays and sales.

Seattle has a police officer whose full-time job is to go around to private businesses and request that they put a pro-gay decal in their storefront. None dare refuse for fear of negative publicity or boycotts.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, they got Lust (via Gay) + Pride now: two deadly sins at once.

So I suppose the up coming ones will be Gluttony + Sloth but hey, that's already universally celebrated by Madison Avenue, Wall Street and Main Street -- our universal culture creators.

[NorthMountain]

John 15:
18 If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. 19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him who sent me. 22 If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yah. Here's the mnemonic I use:

PALE GAS

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Pride

Anger

Lust

Envy

Gluttony

Avarice

Sloth

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[Lurkinanloomin]

Very useful, thanks.

[farming pharmer]

Isn’t pride one of the seven deadly sins?

It can sure screw up your life. That's why, in general, I keep my mouth shut and head low...

[Sam Gamgee]

I wish we could go back to the days where people were ashamed for being gay. I really do.

[a fool in paradise]

We see photos of Nazi banners and bunting in 1930s-1940s Germany and are horrified yet a radical agenda is strong arming corporations into a similar display of rainbow flags and loyalty pledges ‘to the cause’ and somehow think it is harmless politicking.

Gay Pride Month is over but the rainbows are still on display 2 months later now. Encroachment.

[a fool in paradise]

Why don’t we have American Pride in July?

What are patriotic displays and exhibition of the USA flag so problematic for these corporations and cities?

[a fool in paradise]

Smash the patriarchy
Smash monogamy

They have been pushing promiscuity since the founding of NOW

They are pushing it in schools now

They are anti-abstinence because it is counter to their worldview