LGBT rights supporters protest in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, August 8, 2020.
Posted on 10/08/2020 4:02:08 AM PDT by Cronos
LGBT rights supporters protest in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, August 8, 2020.
A culture war is raging in Poland. Over the last few years, Polish political discourse has been characterised by hostility to LGBT rights.
Toxic rhetoric, driven by the current government, has only served to deepen the eternal divisions between religious conservative and socially liberal Poles.
In 2020, in the Rainbow Maps annually compiled by ILGA-Europe, which assess European countries’ commitment to LGBT+ rights and equality, Poland plummeted from an already weak 28 points achieved in 2014 (its best result to date) to the lowest ranking among all EU countries with just 16 points.
It is clear to see why. A landmark LGBT+ declaration, which pledged to protect teenagers from bullying and harassment by implementing the politics of inclusion, almost immediately became a target of harsh criticism articulated by Catholic clergymen and conservative politicians when it was signed by the mayor of Warsaw and recent presidential candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski, in February 2019.
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A culture war is raging in Poland. Over the last few years, Polish political discourse has been characterised by hostility to LGBT rights.
Toxic rhetoric, driven by the current government, has only served to deepen the eternal divisions between religious conservative and socially liberal Poles.
In 2020, in the Rainbow Maps annually compiled by ILGA-Europe, which assess European countries’ commitment to LGBT+ rights and equality, Poland plummeted from an already weak 28 points achieved in 2014 (its best result to date) to the lowest ranking among all EU countries with just 16 points.
It is clear to see why. A landmark LGBT+ declaration, which pledged to protect teenagers from bullying and harassment by implementing the politics of inclusion, almost immediately became a target of harsh criticism articulated by Catholic clergymen and conservative politicians when it was signed by the mayor of Warsaw and recent presidential candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski, in February 2019.
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, slammed the resolution as "an attack on children" aiming to impose "early sexualisation on children starting at the age of 0 to 4".
In an official letter, Warsaw bishops stated that: "The declaration is contrary to parents’ constitutional right to raise their children in accordance with their own believes and biding educational law".
While recent events are ongoing skirmishes in the conflict, the start of the war itself can be traced to the ushering in of the current government.
"The year 2015, when the Law and Justice party came to power, is a significant pivotal moment marking the beginning in systematic decline in the quality of living conditions of the LGBT community in Poland," said Karolina Gierdal, a lawyer at the Campaign Against Homophobia, a Warsaw-based rights group established and co-founded in 2001 by Robert Biedroń, Poland’s first openly homosexual MP and a current member of the EU parliament.
"Before that, it was possible to have this feeling of hope that slowly but surely things were moving in the right direction, that we were on the right track to convince our society that the LGBT community is entitled to human rights and protection," she added
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A culture war is raging in Poland. Over the last few years, Polish political discourse has been characterised by hostility to LGBT rights.
Toxic rhetoric, driven by the current government, has only served to deepen the eternal divisions between religious conservative and socially liberal Poles.
In 2020, in the Rainbow Maps annually compiled by ILGA-Europe, which assess European countries’ commitment to LGBT+ rights and equality, Poland plummeted from an already weak 28 points achieved in 2014 (its best result to date) to the lowest ranking among all EU countries with just 16 points.
It is clear to see why. A landmark LGBT+ declaration, which pledged to protect teenagers from bullying and harassment by implementing the politics of inclusion, almost immediately became a target of harsh criticism articulated by Catholic clergymen and conservative politicians when it was signed by the mayor of Warsaw and recent presidential candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski, in February 2019.
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, slammed the resolution as "an attack on children" aiming to impose "early sexualisation on children starting at the age of 0 to 4".
In an official letter, Warsaw bishops stated that: "The declaration is contrary to parents’ constitutional right to raise their children in accordance with their own believes and biding educational law". SPONSORED CONTENT Do environmental documentaries actually have an impact on people’s bad habits? We’re wondering how much effect our binge watching of Blue Planet really has on climate change. Ad by euronews 'An imminent threat'
While recent events are ongoing skirmishes in the conflict, the start of the war itself can be traced to the ushering in of the current government.
"The year 2015, when the Law and Justice party came to power, is a significant pivotal moment marking the beginning in systematic decline in the quality of living conditions of the LGBT community in Poland," said Karolina Gierdal, a lawyer at the Campaign Against Homophobia, a Warsaw-based rights group established and co-founded in 2001 by Robert Biedroń, Poland’s first openly homosexual MP and a current member of the EU parliament.
"Before that, it was possible to have this feeling of hope that slowly but surely things were moving in the right direction, that we were on the right track to convince our society that the LGBT community is entitled to human rights and protection," she added.
The ruling populist PiS party has built both presidential and parliamentary campaigns on a stigmatising narrative portraying the LGBT people as an imminent threat to the Polish national identity and religious values.
During the peak of campaigning for his re-election this year, President Andrzej Duda denounced the LGBT rights movement as an "ideology worse than communism" and signed a draft amendment to the constitution banning same-sex adoption in a bid to protect Polish children.
"PiS decided to put the LGBT rights on their agenda because this is one of the topics that allows them to back the opposition into a corner and to strike fears and aversion in the society," Magdalena Fillips, an MP with centre-right Civic Coalition, told Euronews.
"In a deliberate, premeditated act, they incite hatred towards gay people without a second thought on the possible consequences," she added.
With a political climate fuelling the rise of homophobia, the city council of Świdnik, a small town located in a region of eastern Poland regarded as a PiS stronghold, was the first to have passed a resolution declaring the municipality free from the so-called "LGBT ideology".
Soon, dozens of others followed in Świdnik’s footsteps and signed similar acts. As a result, now nearly a third of the country’s territory consists of local authorities that have signed the declaration.
While none of these bills are legally binding, they were met by widespread condemnation from the international community and EU institutions. Some Western European towns suspended their year-long partnerships with their Polish sister cities over the adopted anti-LGBT bills.
Morality, nature’s way and the Bible are toxic to flaming faggots, it seems.
Good for them in Swidnik.
Wish our response had been stronger.
Opening the gates to this did not satisfy them and has brought us a radicalized agenda driven purpose to allow all sorts of perverted lifestyles, pedophilia, transgender, and soon beastiality
Kind of old news! Trzaskowski lost the election!
LGBT based school curricula is out.
On the flip side:
Apparently these signs were placed and photographed by some LGBT activist to make his point - fake news. Just notice the multilingual sign. Polish people do not use them usually.
The picture made big impression on European Union, but it is debunked and an old news now.
Governments keep passing “You are not allowed to disagree” laws. The backlash is inevitable.
The red are the LGBT free zones.
Correct.
I realized that in the 90s we overall, globally, became more “accepting” of “let them live” policies - thanks to TV shows like Friends, will and Grace etc.
But then it became “Marriage rights” - you have a “right” to get married to someone?
Then it became “we want to induct children in this” - so that now in schools we aren’t taught “this goes in this” but “hey, look this is also cool”
And then it became “if you aren’t actively saying ‘Yay, gay’” that means you are a homophobe.
Staggering lies....
“Sane” has been retranslated to mean “homophobic”.
Opposing enhanced rights for queers and upholding a value system is now considered anti-LGBT.
Pink Nazis
The rise of conservatism in the LGBT community will turn leftists against them....along with the rise of Islam on the Left
The messages context is between:
“A landmark LGBT+ declaration, which pledged to protect teenagers from bullying and harassment”
which frames the debate one way, and
“an attack on children” aiming to impose “early sexualisation on children starting at the age of 0 to 4”, which
reflects the view of the government of Poland.
I can imagine that a dissection of the bill might provide an element of the first view, but with the major objections being that that limited concept is a deception, a smokescreen for a lot more material in the resolution that does impose a full LGBT “acceptance” political agenda and starting at ages totally improper for discussion among children.
Typical of all socialism, it opposes a society of free association and the use and development of personal values and preferences that come freely to individuals without government coercion. Socialism always tries to move legalities - what is legal and what is not - down into every social space. Socialism is not about a country of free people who identify with that freedom. It is about a country that is only “good” how and because of how the government commands.
Homosexuals are the violent ones that put people in corners or worse to push their toxic, self destructive and society destroying ideologies.
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