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.
Thanks.
Sorry, I don't have a formal Polska Pingski List -- I just ping those two guys because I happened to think about it.
sure, I think so. let me open mmy email LOL
"Are you calling ALL the religious people of Russia "freedom hating scum"???"
Oh please, where did you get it from? I haven't written that, for God's sake!
I pray for all the good people in Russia. Putin and his minions are the communist scum. I'm sure any true Christian in Russia wouldn't care a thing about gays and their preposterous parades. They are only another object of missionary work, nothing more.
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