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Warsaw mayor bans gay parade for second time


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Warsaw, Poland., May 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Lech Kaczynski, mayor of Warsaw and leading presidential contender, promised to ban a gay rights parade for the second year in a row, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

The parade, normally scheduled for June 11, would conflict with plans to unveil a memorial to Gen Stefan Rowcki, a Polish underground leader during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Mayor Kaczynski, who is “against propagating gay orientation,” indicated that “Organizing a gay parade on that day is a joke.”

Last year Kaczynski banned the fourth Equality Parade amidst fears of conflict between homosexual groups and opponents who had planned a counter-demonstration. The leader of Equality Foundation, Tomasz Baczkowski, said that he and other organizers would try to appeal to regional authorities to reverse the ban.

Gay parade banned in Poland
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Gay-parade-banned-in-Polands/2005/05/19/1116361...

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