People livg same-sex upl will be barred om adoptg children Poland even as sgle parents, unr a new law announced on Thursday by a natnalist lg party which has ma anti-gay polici a major part of s erng platform.
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POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS
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BRUSSELS/WARSAW, March 11 (Rters) - People livg same-sex upl will be barred om adoptg children Poland even as sgle parents, unr a new law announced on Thursday by a natnalist lg party which has ma anti-gay polici a major part of s erng announcement is likely to tensify a clash between Poland and the European Unn over LGBT rights, which the EU says mt be rpected all member stat, but which Poland lls a threat to s Roman Catholic culture and a purely domtic Polish ernment announced s plan for the adoptn ban hours before lawmakers the European parliament adopted a major gay rights rolutn that was seen as a direct rebe to Warsaw's recent already allows only oppose sex upl or sgle people to adopt children. ) people livg habatn wh a person of the same sex uld not adopt a child, so a homosexual uple will not be able to adopt a child, " said Deputy Jtice Mister Michal said the purpose of the measure was to protect children: "It's about a child's safety, about s wellbeg, " he said. Children serve a home, " activist Bartosz Staszewski told 's curbs on gay rights, which are beg mimicked nearby Hungary, are among several issu that have created ictn between the EU and right wg ernments power those two ex-munist member untri.
It clared all EU terrory to be an "LGBTIQ Freedom Zone", a clear rebuttal to the "LGBT-ee" signatn ed 's lg Law and Jtice Party (PiS) says gay rights are a threat to the tradnal liftyle one of the most Catholic untri Europe. Its crics say has turned to polics of bigotry to clg to power, particularly sce an electn last year, which PiS cumbent Print Andrzej Duda narrowly won wh an appeal to nservative voters that emphasised anti-gay msag. She is gay, and gay people are not wele Kozy.
But the impact is felt most pafully — and daily — by the gay, lbian and transgenr Pol who live towns that would prefer they simply weren’t there. Parts of s particularly nservative, ral regns to the southeast have never embraced LGBT people; but now, homophobic rhetoric is uttered by the state and preached church, and hostily on the streets is boilg over. When a massive EU study earlier this year found that LGBT+ people on the ntent generally feel safer than they did five years ago, Poland was the glarg exceptn; two-thirds of gay, lbian and transgenr Pol said tolerance and acts of vlence agast them had creased, while four five said they avoid certa plac for fear of beg asslted — the hight rate Europe.