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,,HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT PEOPLE, IT’S A IDEOLOGY. ‘’ POLISH MP SAID.
AGAINST DEHUMANIZATION OF LGBT PEOPLE
On Friday, MP of the Agreement and deputy minister of the group and Regional Council Jacek Żalek remotely participated in the “Facts after Facts” program. During it, he was asked to comment on the words of the staff chief of president Andrzej Duda, Joachim Brudzinski, who wrote in social media that “Poland without LGBT is the most beautiful.”
- Would you sign under this statement? - Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska, who was leading the program, asked.
- I understand that it’s about ideology - replied Żalek.
When the TVN24 journalist decided that “they are all homosexual people, transsexual people”, he replied: “These are not people. This is ideology. "
- How are these not people? Listen what are you saying - asked Kolenda-Zaleska.
- No, they are not people. This is ideology - repeated the MP. Suddenly the TVN24 journalist covered the interview. - No, sir, there are limits, including in this program. I would like to thank you very much for our conversation, because if you say that LGBT people are not people … - she said.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has called the promotion of LGBT rights an "ideology” more destructive than communism, in a campaign speech.
He is an ally of the ruling nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS), and is seeking re-election on 28 June.
He said his parents’ generation had struggled against communist ideology for 40 years and “they didn’t fight for this so that a new ideology would appear that is even more destructive”.
Critics say PiS has an anti-gay agenda.
The LGBT rights group ILGA-Europe says Poland is the worst-performing country in the EU in terms of LGBT rights, in an index published last month.
PiS won a majority in parliament with a conservative-nationalist agenda strong on Catholic values, including support for traditional families and opposition to gay marriage.
Speaking to supporters in Brzeg, southwestern Poland, Mr Duda said “parents are responsible for the sexual education of their children,” and “it is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children”.
One of his chief rivals, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski of the centre-right Civic Platform (PO) party, has been criticised by religious conservatives for allowing discussion of LGBT issues in Warsaw schools. The election is likely to go to a second-round runoff vote.
In his speech in Brzeg, Mr Duda said “this is not why my parents’ generation for 40 years struggled to expel communist ideology from schools, so that it could not be foisted on children, could not brainwash and indoctrinate them…
"They did not fight so that we would now accept that another ideology, even more destructive to man, would come along, an ideology which under the clichés of respect and tolerance hides deep intolerance”.
Rival candidate Robert Biedron of the Left party - an LGBT rights activist - called Mr Duda’s Family Charter “a radical document which divides Polish society, introducing standards reminiscent of the most brutal… times of Polish and European history”.
,,Today is the best time to take a stand. After what President Andrzej Duda said (about LGBT - ed.), All people of good will, anyone who wants to be in solidarity with this minority, which is not called people today, should take a clear position in this matter: how equality is equality. If we are democrats, we are on the side of human rights and citizens’ rights, nobody should excuse in these matters.’’ - said Biedroń.