Posted on 05/18/2005 4:44:07 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Warsaw's conservative mayor has vowed to ban an annual gay rights parade for a second year, saying that he is "against propagating gay orientation" in the Polish capital.
Mayor Lech Kaczynski, who is widely seen as a leading contender for Poland's presidency in October elections, said he would block plans by gay rights activists for a march on June 11.
He said it would interfere with plans to unveil a monument that day to Gen Stefan Rowecki, a leader of Poland's anti-Nazi underground army during World War II.
"Organising a gay parade on that day is a joke," Kaczynski was quoted as saying by the news agency PAP. "I am for tolerance, but am against propagating gay orientation."
Tomasz Baczkowski, a leader of Equality Foundation, the group organising the parade, said organisers would try to appeal a ban to regional authorities.
Last June, Kaczynski banned the fourth annual Equality Parade, saying he feared clashes between gay rights groups and opponents who planned a counter-demonstration. Despite the ban, about 500 supporters of gay and lesbian rights rallied in front of city hall, chanting "Homophobe".
A leading member of the center-right Law and Justice party, Kaczynski is widely expected to run in the October 9 election to replace centre-left President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who cannot seek a third term.
Kaczynski has won popularity as mayor for taking a tough stance on crime and promoting efforts to commemorate Warsaw's history - including a museum devoted to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and a planned museum on the history of Poland's Jews.
" I mean how long can civilization last if we promote sex that does not result in offspring.
Yes! Why should society support and promote behavior that will never ever prolong a societies existence.
It is suicidal.
Social suicide, thank you dumb stupid lefties.
Add in the fact that the women are total babes, and I can't think of a single thing that is wrong with Poland.
I didn't know that. Our libeal media doesn't tell us those things. Good for Russia!
""Russia had banned gay parades for over 9 years now. ""
"I didn't know that. Our libeal media doesn't tell us those things. Good for Russia!"
The problem is that Russia bans just about everything else.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Good news from Poland. Remember last year? The good mayor of Warsawa wouldn't let the homosexuals have their parade last year either. There were some cool pictures of city workers all of a sudden putting up a barricade, and stories of the paraders having to run and hide. I know, I know, there were some mean hooligans. Oh well.
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
Hear, hear!
Proud to have Polish blood.
O'Reilly is useless and Romney is a phoney.
Straight Poles Rule.
ditto
Rule One: No Poofters!
Polska BUMP!
No kidding? A Polish ping list? Make your own ruling here, I don't speak it...I'm a %100 english speaking-American but ethnically I'm %100 Polish...and I live in Chicago...that's gotta count for something...anyway put me on your list if you so desire!
They'll probably have U.N. sanctions brought against Poland before they do Iran.
Gay parades only make normal people loathe gays more. And isn't prohibiting citizens of a country from expressing their (sick, to be sure) sexual preferences a bit anti-democratic? That Russia prohibits gay parades doesnt surprise me at all. Communists and other freedom-hating scum were always very prudish.
I think homosexuality is a minor problem. Much bigger problem is divorce. Why don't they prohibit divorce? I would be all for that ,seriously.
At one time... just recently actually....The Mayor of Moscow was a Jew and he is the one who pushed the ban of gay parades in Moscow. Also, three different Christian groups and an Muslim organization... agree with him and also urged the ban.
NOT all Russians are commies by the way. I know many Christian Russians who have visited my Church in Florida and they all told how Christinity is growing in Russia... much to their delight!
Allouette has told us on FR how many Russian Jews are returning to Moscow from Israel. And they are making a big and postive impact on the growth of their community in that country.
The re-birth of religious FAITH in Russia is a WONDERFUL THING!!
Why, in RUSSIA, due to the influence of religious people, abortion is now illegal after the 12th week of pregnancy. Unlike in the USA where a gal can kill an unborn baby right up to end... you know, as in partial birth abortion.
Yes, FAITH IN GOD IN RUSSIA IS A GOOD THING!!
Wonderful news!!
Religious pressure caused that ban just like the caused the ban on gay parades.
I think Poland has banned abortions too.
"Russia has banned abortions after the 12th week"
I see they haed to abort a couple Russian elections in Ukraine! :-)
Woooo Hoooo!!! Hehehehehe!!!!!
Good news. Could you put up a link to that website?
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