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Polish Homosexual Activists Hopeful That New Government Might Advance Their Cause

Asking for civil unions, homosexual indoctrination in schools and banning of discrimination

By Hilary White
 
WARSAW, November 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recent general election in Poland has emboldened homosexual activists to request a meeting with the new government to discuss launching the same kind of programmes in Poland that have formed the backbone of the abortion and homosexual movement’s gains in Britain and European nations.
 
Among the goals of the Warsaw-based Campaign Against Homophobia are the legalization of homosexual civil unions, the banning of “discrimination based on sexual orientation” and the introduction of “sex education” into the schools.
 
Although the new government, under the EU-friendly Civic Platform party has been described by media as “socially conservative,” Robert Biedron, president of Campaign Against Homophobia, had been cautiously optimistic that his organization could begin to work with the government.
 
Poland has been under heavy pressure, including threats, from the European Union for its determination to protect school children from the same kind of “gay rights” propaganda and sex-education campaigns that are common in other EU countries. Several clashes with the EU surrounded the government’s refusal to allow “Gay Pride” parades in the deeply Catholic country.
 
“For sure it means a change and I hope a change for the better — but I wouldn't be that optimistic because Civic Platform party leaders are not that pleasant toward the gay and lesbian minorities,” Biedron said shortly after the election last month. “I hope they will at least pretend that they are tolerant.”
 
Catholic World News quoted Biederon saying, “In Polish textbooks, one may read that homosexuality is a deviation…That opinion hails from the Middle Ages and should be fought.”
 
Family and pro-life advocates in Europe have warned that such programmes have amounted to a campaign of indoctrination into a new, leftist, atheistic and ultimately totalitarian philosophy.
 
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07102206.html
 
European Parliament Passes Resolution Vowing to Take 'Homophobic' Countries to Court
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/apr/07042608.html
 
EU to Force Poland, Malta, Italy to Recognize Gay “Marriages”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06050204.html  

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