Posted on 02/21/2007 10:50:40 AM PST by lizol
ANTI-GAY REMARKS MADE BY POLISH PRESIDENT SPARK ANGER IN IRELAND
21 February 2007
During a debate at Dublin Castle yesterday, the Polish President Lech Kaczynski said that homosexual culture was a threat to the survival of the human race and should not be promoted as an alternative lifestyle.
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) have called on the head of state to withdraw his remarks.
"I'm sure that many Polish people living in Ireland are disappointed and embarrassed by these remarks," said GLEN spokesman Kieran Rose.
"So I think the best thing for him to do is to withdraw them."
Kaczynski’s (pictured) comments were criticised by Labour Party TD Joan Burton in the Dail last night.
"I have to say I think it is a pity in the context of the contribution that gay people have made not just to the culture, literature and music of his own country, Poland, but in general the contribution to so many different aspects of human life, in the past, and as we live it now,” Burton said.
The Polish president and his wife arrived in Ireland on Sunday and were due to conclude their three-day visit tonight.
Mr Kaczynski is believed to have made the controversial remarks during a debate at the Forum on Europe in Dublin Castle where he spoke on the theme: Poland and Ireland in a United Europe.
"I'm sure that many Polish people living in Ireland are disappointed and embarrassed by these remarks," said GLEN spokesman Kieran Rose.
More bullshit hyperbole to inspire sympathy for the freaks.
newsflash that is not an opinion but a fact.
You may live how you personally want but no matter how you fantasize, the rest of the world does not have the same ivory tower infection of the intelectual MSM elitists.
You are right in one regard, homosexuals are irrelevant to the world.
I know, couldn't resist tho'. Some of the best priests I ever met were Irish or Polish. Friends that went to parochial school told me about the Irish "Fadduhs" putting on the gloves and knocking the attitude out of 'em when they thought they were tough guys.
An Irish priest a friend served in the Marines with on Okinawa married a bud and his wife after "counselling" him with a whack upside his head when he was getting cold feet at the last monent. I have enormous respect for people with a vocation that live their faith.
There was a Polish priest in Ft Lauderdale whose obituary I read years ago that became a priest after making a "God get me out of this" vow as a young officer as he lay wounded at Cassino. The father was quoted as saying that while he might not be a very good priest (liked to party I guess), a promise was a promise.
The Church Militant!
Oh! But they can. They're called "trial lawyers".
Looks like Chicago may not be the second largest city in all of Polonia for much longer.
lol ... are we allowed to laugh at that, still?
"During a debate at Dublin Castle yesterday, the Polish President Lech Kaczynski said that homosexual culture was a threat to the survival of the human race and should not be promoted as an alternative lifestyle."
Of course it is " a threat to the survival of the human race" as homosexuals are sterile. Their sexual practices are unhealthy and can result in disease. When they bring children from outside the relationship into an abnormal, unhealthy, and immoral lifestyle, it only makes matters worse.
"The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) have called on the head of state to withdraw his remarks."
I'm waiting because it is only a matter of time. They probably already have a spot booked for him at one of those politically correct rehab centers.
"'I have to say I think it is a pity in the context of the contribution that gay people have made not just to the culture, literature and music of his own country, Poland, but in general the contribution to so many different aspects of human life, in the past, and as we live it now,” Burton said."
Well Burton, could you please name some of these positive contributions. Also, I suppose you consider peculiar sexual practices that can result in disease, a distortion of the purpose of marriage, and the dragging of children into such relationships positive to our culture.
I think some people can't handle the truth
I start liking Polish govt every day
Well there are those two guys, Patrick Fitgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick...
I have lived in nine different countries. What you say is simply not true. I know this. It doesn't matter what you say or what you think. There are many, many people out there who are not homosexuals and who have no problems with them at all. As far as nations go, they differ- therefore, you cannot be correct. South Africa, for example, seemed pretty backwards as far as these things go. Western Europe (to include the UK) are very tolerant on this issue. While in Samoa, I met a gay Samoan and the rest of the villagers where he lived treated him no differently. He had gone off to New Zealand to earn money and came back with a white boyfriend. It wasn't an issue that I saw.
Fair enough, you don't like homosexuals. I don't want to change your mind. I really don't. It's your choice. Your life. BUT... Do not project your own beliefs on everyone else. It is a common psychological phenomenom- projection- you don't have to feel bad about doing it. Everybody does it to some degree. But you have to realise that wanting something to be so does not make it so.
What you say is demonstrably false. Demonstrably. I simply know too many people in too many different places who are not like you say for it to be true.
You are right in one regard, homosexuals are irrelevant to the world.
And so are we all. The world is a big rock spinning round and round. There is no 'group opinion'. I can have no respect for a person that seeks to bolster his position by pointing at others who share his belief. Everybody used to think the world is flat- majority opinion is worthless. When I speak, I speak for me alone- every single time. I don't want to speak for you and you cannot speak for me. You lack the vocabulary.
Don't include me in your 'world'. I want no part of it. Because your world is very very small and very very boring. The world I live in is very big and there are a lot of different things in it and that's just the way I like it. Homogeneity of opinion would be a form of hell.
Homosexuals are irrelevent in your world. But then... You are irrelevent in mine.
Grow up.
The Irish were only a generation or two back, fierce proponents of heterosexuality, and held the perversion of sexuality that is homosexuality in contempt. Things do not change that face, society-wise. The Polish President spoke wisely.
He wasn't talking about "gay" celebrities, but the homosexual "culture". The culture of pedophilia, of sexual debasement, of abuse and receruitment of children, etc.
Hmmm. I have visited many many places. And I have lived in 9 countries. I am interested in culture. You cannot learn about other countries/cultures from a television or from someone who has never been anywhere. You cannot know about other cultures without going out there into the world and finding it out. You cannot learn about another culture in any depth without actually living inside that culture.
I don't care if you believe me or not buddy. I live my life for me, not for impressing the ignorant folk back home. If you don't want to see the world or know anything about it- fine. That's just fine. But don't get too upset if someone else goes out into that world and learns that all the stereotypes TOO MANY Americans believe in are simply not true.
I don't want to grow up if it means being more like you. Screw that. Let my heart be like that of a child forever. I am not ashamed of me and nothing you could ever do or say would make me ashamed. I am not afraid to speak my mind. I don't care how many people disagree with me. I don't care if anybody likes me or not. I'm not here for rubbing you the right way...
If I say something you like at some point, let me know so I can consider retracting it. I don't want to be on your side and wouldn't want you covering my back and I really hope you feel the same about me.
What is it that you are trying to find, after all?
I wish we had a President with the balls to say something like this.
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