---

Poland Strikes Back Against Homosexual Education: Fires Teacher Responsible

By Peter J. Smith

WARSAW, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Minister of Education in Poland has sent clear messages in the past week that the Polish government will not tolerate the indoctrination of students with the homosexual agenda in Polish schools. On June 9th, the Polish Minister of Education, Roman Giertych, officially dismissed the Director of Polish In-Service Teachers, Miroslaw Sielatycki, for publishing Compass: a manual on human rights education with young people, and is now considering banning its distribution and sale.

"This Manual speaks about issues of the homosexual relations as being equal to the matrimonial relations between woman and man. The contents included in this Manual accept thesis that the prohibition of matrimonial homosexual relations and the adoption of children by homosexual couples may constitute an element of discrimination", Minister Giertych stated in explaining the firing of Director Sielatycki. He went on to emphasize, "Such contents are in contradiction to the core curriculum for general education; therefore they can not be, by any means, presented as methodological resources."

Minister Giertych, who is also a leader in the League of Polish Families and Deputy Prime Minister, has said in the past, "there is no room, nor will there ever be any room for homosexual activism within the school system in Poland on my watch."  This stance sets Poland in direct opposition to the trend set by the European Union. The Minister of Education wants instead to introduce a subject on patriotic education, as opposed to promoting homosexual behaviours cleverly guised under the name of "Human Rights Education."

A sample of the "49 Practical Activities and Methods for Human Rights Education" in Compass shows role-play activities like "You are an unemployed single mother", "You are an Arab Muslim girl living with your parents who are devoutly religious people", "You are an HIV positive, middle-aged prostitute", "You are a 22-year-old lesbian." In one of the exercises, the group trainer encourages the youth to "burst balloons that represent symbols of oppression, discrimination and exclusion. After talking about sex, you may like to celebrate liberation using condoms instead of balloons!"

The Council of Europe blasted Poland's dismissal; the criticism, however, comes as little surprise since the same organization created the Compass program.  "I do not understand how teaching tolerance can be grounds for dismissal," said Secretary General Terry Davis of the Council of Europe.

The Council of Europe secretary went so far as to suggest Poland must adopt its pro-homosexual propaganda.  "I made it clear that the Polish government is free to decide whether it wishes to use Council of Europe material for human rights education, but if the teaching material is optional, the values and principles contained therein are certainly not," said Davis.

The non-optional "values and principles", which the Council of Europe outlines brazenly in Compass mean nothing less than indoctrinating young people to reject the fundamental role of the family in society and basic principles of sexual morality.   As the Compass document says in the section titled "Let's Talk About Sex": "There is a hegemonic force which lies at the centre of the connection between sexual diversity and human rights, and which arguably operates to consistently marginalize equal access to human rights. That force is the institutionalised assumption that heterosexuality as 'naturally ordained' and therefore the 'normal' mode of expression of sexual desire. A constant theme in this process of marginalisation is the assumption that heterosexuality is 'natural' and therefore morally acceptable while other forms of sexual expression are 'unnatural' and therefore morally unacceptable."

Minister Giertych's concern for the safety of Poland if the aggressive homosexual agenda goes unchecked was validated yesterday as members of the Students' Initiative burned an effigy of the Minister, and unsuccessfully attempted to storm the building. Minister Giertych was able to escape unharmed. 

Poland, the homeland of Pope John Paul II, is currently the strongest leader against the trend of pan-homosexualism that is dominating Europe and the European Union.

To contact the Polish government the Chancellery of the Prime Minister can be reached by e-mail or fax.

E-mail:
Fax: +48 22 694-68-26

To sample the contents of Compass click on the links below: http://www.eycb.coe.int/compass/en/chapter_2/2_24.html http://www.eycb.coe.int/compass/en/chapter_2/2_38.html

 Back to Top

---

MORE NEWS: LifeSiteNews.com Home Page  Last 10 Days   Archives   Special Reports

Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.