Poland will not let EU 'force' to allowg gay marriag, says jtice mister | Rters

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• POLAND WILL NOT LET EU 'FORCE' TO ALLOWG GAY MARRIAG, SAYS JTICE MISTER
• GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

POLAND WILL NOT LET EU 'FORCE' TO ALLOWG GAY MARRIAG, SAYS JTICE MISTER

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn latn verbal attacks by the Polish ernment, wh the support of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the threat of physil vlence on the streets of many ci, has triggered an exod of gay Mucha for The New York TimFor months, ernment misters spewed vic rhetoric about gay people. Fally fed up wh an creasgly hostile environment for gay people Poland unr the erng Law and Jtice party, Marta Malachowska, a 31-year-old who works social media, cid to move to Berl wh her girliend December.

But now their numbers are beg add to by gay people fleeg an creasgly hostile environment Limowicz for The New York TimAcrdg to a 2020 survey by ILGA-Europe, an ternatnal gay rights anizatn, Poland now ranks as the most homophobic untry the European Unn. Activists say that vlence agast gay people Poland surged last year, and clud s of physil vlence, sults and the stctn of is hard to know how many gay people there are Poland, or how many are leavg.

GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

”Homosexualy has long been taboo Poland, where the Roman Catholic Church, which plays a proment role the untry’s social and polil life, has worked hand hand wh the ernment to promote a nservative way of church, which is particularly powerful ral areas, has adopted an actively hostile attu toward gay people. Rpondg to a requt for ment, the Catholic Church poted to an official document outlg s posn, statg that homosexual “clatns” did not nstute “moral guilt, ” but homosexual acts did. It cled to ment on hate speech employed by prits, and the accatn that they were ntributg to the general terratn of the safety of gay people Jedraszewski, Poland’s archbishop, has scribed L.

Neher the ernment nor the print rpond to requts for April 2019 Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chairman of the Law and Jtice party and Poland’s facto lear, lled homosexualy a “threat to Polish inty, to our natn, to s existence, and th to the Polish state.

”Tcks fund by ultranservative anizatns have roamed the untry, blarg slogans om speakers accg gay people of pedophilia.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

There have been creasg s of vlence durg pri march, and agast one cint a village southern Poland, a young gay man was harassed by neighbors hurlg homophobic abe at him, and one tried to poison his dog. In March 2021, another gay man was verbally attacked and then stabbed for holdg hands wh his partner a gay person Poland, Mr. In a bid to get re-elected last year, Print Andrzej Duda signed a draft law that would amend the Constutn to ban adoptns by gay Ms.

REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File PhotoWARSAW (Rters) - Poland’s jtice mister said on Monday the European Unn may be a posn to force Warsaw to legalize gay marriage if EU lears make fancial aid ndnal on upholdg mocratic norms, and warned that this was talks Bssels on the next EU budget and an enomic revery plan, some lears have mand that payouts be blocked to member stat which the executive European Commissn (EC) ems to be unrmg mocratic valu. “There is a real risk that we may fd ourselv a suatn where the EC will effectively force to troduce the so-lled homosexual marriag wh the right to adopt children, ” he told a news nference. Gay marriag are illegal Poland and Print Andrzej Duda was re-elected this month after sayg he would not allow adoptns by gay upl or perm class on gay rights state rights activist Alicja Sienkiewicz of the Lubl Equaly March Associatn, which supports lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, said members of the LGBT muny were beg portrayed as enemi of the state.

For 30 days, begng January 17, European Unn missners received daily Twter notifitns lkg to personal stori of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Pol who have been harmed by the so-lled “LGBT Iology Free Zon” or anti-LGBT “Fay Charters” nearly 100 Polish regns, towns, and ci. The tweets were part of a mpaign led by two Polish LGBT groups, Campaign Agast Homophobia (Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, KPH) and The Equaly Foundatn (Fundacja Równości, FR), llg on EU Commissners to iate an gement procre – a legal actn that n lead to referral to the European Court of Jtice – agast Poland. The su had been brought by Jakub Kwieciński and Dawid Mycek, a gay uple who are popular vloggers and social media celebri who had legally married Portugal.

“On the ocsn of the 28th Budapt Pri Ftival, we the unrsigned embassi and cultural stut exprs our full support for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny Hungary and their rights to equaly and non-discrimatn, eedom of exprsn and peaceful assembly and eedom om vlence, ” reads the statement. Gay Marriage⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriag regnized onlyChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog DiscrimatnN/AConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Views on same-sex marriage or other legal regnnViews on same-sex upl' right to adoptAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors?

By The Numbers60% of Pol believe Poland should abolish the so-lled "LGBT-Free zon"33% of Pol believe Poland shouldn't abolish the so-lled "LGBT-Free zon"HistoryHomosexual activy Poland? However, several lol thori Poland have clared themselv "LGBT-ee zon", where "homopropaganda" and LGBT referenc tn have been prohibed.

A procs will veto any sgle gay person who tri to onlyBefore the current law, sgle only adoptn for gay people was allowed. Current statSce Jan 1, 1991Legal Sce the 1990s, lbian, gay and bisexual people are not banned om ary service and discrimatn agast them is officially forbidn.