Mar 23, 2007Quickie Link: Poland, the European North Korea? --by Doug Ireland
By Kyleovision
[The recent move to criminalize any mention of homosexuality in Polish schools] came just it was announced that President [Lech] Kaczynski would deliver the opening address at a World Congress of Families organized this coming May in Poland by gay-hating U.S. Christian right groups.
...Poland is the most Catholic country in Europe, and, ...Robert Biedron, chairman of the Polish Campaign Against Homophobia said, "More and more gay people are victims of physical abuse, so I'm very much concerned that Poland will become the Cuba or North Korea of Europe."
Commenting on Vice Minister Orzechowski's remarks about the schools bill and his declaration that any teacher who violated it could be fired or imprisoned, gay activist Biedron said, "When Orzechkowski made this statement about the law, even the journalists asked whether this kind of isolation of gay people is a first step and, if so, what will be the next? Don't we already know this kind of language from not so ancient history? Are we waiting for camps for LGBT people?"
...Meanwhile, Poland will be invaded by a host of U.S. Christian Right activists when a World Congress of Families (WCF) is held in Warsaw on May 11-13, and President Kaczynski -- who twice banned Gay Pride marches when he was mayor of Warsaw -- is both Honorary Patron of this so-called Congress and, it was announced last week, will give the opening speech there.
