Posted on 03/13/2007 2:08:53 PM PDT by lizol
Poland's Giertych wants to ban gay groups from schools
Mar 13, 2007, 13:27 GMT
Warsaw - Roman Giertych, Poland's controversial Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, is preparing legislation to sanction school principals who allow members of gay rights organisations to speak with pupils, a Polish education ministry spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
Giertych recently stirred controversy in Heidelberg, Germany, during a meeting of EU education ministers when he openly criticized abortion rights and what he termed 'homosexual propaganda'.
The government of conservative Law and Justice (PIS) Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has distanced itself from the Giertych's comments, insisting they were his personal opinions and did not reflect government policy.
'The propaganda of homosexuality is reaching ever younger children.' Giertych said in the Heidelberg speech.
Poland's mass-circulation Dziennik daily reported Tuesday, Minister Giertych was overseeing the preparation of the draft legislation banning gay rights groups from schools, a move which appears to be unconstitutional.
Giertych, 36, is the leader of Poland's Catholic-nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR), a junior partner in the three-party populist-conservative coalition government of Prime Minister Kaczynski.
Allegations which arose in the Polish media that some LPR party members may have had links to the far right and neo-Nazis are being probed by state prosecutors.
Poland is full of good and decent people.
Is Poland taking immigrants?
Yes! Do it!
I wish the U.S. had a single Senator with the balls of this guy. What we have instead is a creep like John Warner, bashing Gen. Pace for speaking the truth to perversity.
Are Pols allowed to keep firearms???
Yes, but after one gets a permit, which is not so easy.
But, that puts Poland much further ahead on Gun rights than Illinois, Washington DC, California, and pretty much all of Europe (except Switzerland).
Poland is a place I've considered if things ever become too bad in the United States. I'm young, so I really don't know what the future holds for this country with the way things are going now. Poland is becoming a beacon of light for the rest of Europe, and maybe they will help bring about the rebirth of a more moral Western Civilzation.
"Poland's controversial Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, is preparing legislation to sanction school principals who allow members of gay rights organisations to speak with pupils..."
I agree that the amount of LGBT "sensitivity" nazis speaking in schools is out of control, but I've always believed that nearly any case of banning speech is wrong(except the shouting "fire" in a crowded place kind of thing). If he were to tell the DOE of Poland to have less of these speakers in favor of more important speeches, that would be fine, but we can't stoop to their level and ban speech we don't like.
WARSAW, Poland, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Poland Education Minister Roman Giertych called for a ban on the “propagation of homosexuality” in schools on Wednesday, saying the proposal would protect traditional family values. Any promotion of “homosexuality, pornography or other phenomena violating moral norms” would be prohibited in schools under Giertych’s proposed amendments to the education law. Giertych is head of the League of Polish Families and Deputy Prime Minister for Poland. He defended the proposals against accusations of discrimination, the Associated Press reported, saying the amendments would “not discriminate against anyone.”
“It is only to protect youth from the propagation of views that threaten marriage, threaten family, and threaten the duties of school, which are to prepare one to fulfill family duties and the duties of a citizen,” he said. Polish officials were directly targeted by a resolution passed last month in the European Parliament that condemned the government for “inciting discrimination and hatred based on sexual orientation” with policies opposing homosexuality. Giertych has taken a strong stand in the Polish government’s opposition to homosexuality and abortion and has criticized the increasing promotion of homosexuality in European culture. At an informal meeting of European education ministers held in Heidelberg, Germany, in March, Giertych told reporters that Europe’s acceptance of homosexual propaganda was the result of “unwise political correctness,” saying also, “[h]omosexual propaganda must also be limited so children will have the correct view of the family.”
In June 2006 Giertych officially dismissed the Director of Polish In-Service Teachers, Miroslaw Sielatycki, for publishing a manual on human rights education for youth that endorsed homosexuality. The Education Minister has said in the past that “there is no room, nor will there ever be any room for homosexual activism within the school system in Poland on my watch.” Polish officials, including Giertych, warned the European Union that Poland would not agree to regulations established in the European Parliament in support of abortion, homosexual rights and same-sex marriage during the World Congress of Families IV held in Warsaw May 11-13. The Education Minister said he anticipates enough parliamentary support to ensure the changes to the education law take place, saying the government backs the proposal to keep homosexual propaganda out of the schools.
In related news, Poland’s governing party introduced a draft law Tuesday encouraging local officials to change street names and remove monuments that glorify communist era rulers, the Associated Press reported. The law would “help us close the chapter on communism, the inglorious past that we went through after World War II,” said Marek Kuchcinski, parliament leader of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Law and Justice party.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
Abortion Warning by Polish Deputy PM: "A nation which kills its children is a nation without a future”
Poland Strikes Back Against Homosexual Education: Fires Teacher Responsible
Poland defies the European Union as 3,300 Strong World Congress of Families Closes
I can envision a day when people are climbing over fence to get IN to Poland.
Amazing that this would be controversial anywhere in the world. We've fallen very far, very fast.
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