Tag Archives: Poland

POLAND: Anti-LGBT Right Wing Party Takes Parliament

The chance of any advances for LGBT rights in Poland were dashed yesterday as an anti-LGBT right wing party won a commanding number of seats in Parliament. Reuters reports: Poland’s eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS) claimed victory on Sunday in a watershed election that risks putting the ex-communist state on a collision course with key European Union allies. Run …

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POLAND: Gay Vatican Priest Defrocked After Coming Out On Eve Of Synod On The Family [VIDEO]

Early this month Vatican priest Krzystof Charamsa was sacked from his position at the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith immediately after coming out on the eve of the synod on the family. Today he was defrocked by Polish Bishop Ryszard Kasyna. Yahoo News reports: The 43-year-old priest sparked outrage at the Vatican on October 3 by publicly declaring …

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POLAND: Thousands Attend Fifteenth Annual Warsaw Pride Festival

Via the Associated Press: Thousands of activists have marched in scorching weather in Warsaw’s 15th yearly “Equality Parade,” confirming a growing public support for gay rights.The participants chanted in support of same sex marriage and the right for same-sex couples to adopt children. Carrying a huge rainbow-colored flag, they marched from the Parliament building, through the downtown Savior Square, where …

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Poland Again Rejects Civil Unions

By a vote of 215-146, Polish lawmakers have rejected placing a civil unions bill on the agenda for the coming legislative session.  Nearly 100 legislators reportedly abstained or refused to vote. This is the fourth consecutive year that such an action was rejected. The 2013 attempt to pass a civil partnerships bill failed to advance by 17 votes. The head …

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Poland Rejects Civil Unions

By a vote of 235-185, Polish lawmakers have rejected placing a civil unions bill on the agenda for the coming legislative session. This is the third consecutive year that such an action was rejected. The 2013 attempt to pass a civil partnerships bill failed to advance by 17 votes.

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POLAND: Pro Boxer Backs LGBT Rights

Poland’s struggling LGBT rights movement got a boost this week when a “wildly popular” boxer publicly expressed his support. Via New York Times: Dariusz Michalczewski, a world-famous pugilist who goes by the nickname Tiger, recently made headlines by announcing his support for one of the country’s most prominent gay rights groups, Shoulder to Shoulder on Equality — L.G.B.T. and Friends, …

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Polish Foreign Minister: We Gave America A Blowjob And Got Nothing In Return

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Eurovision 2014: Poland’s Entry

“We are Slavic girls. We know how to use our charming beauty.” A Eurovision blogger reviews the clip: The opening scene of the video shows Donatan—lazy and clearly oversexed—struggling to get out of bed. His antiquated mobile phone and rural farmhouse smack of a man—indeed, a nation—behind the times. The suggestion that Warsaw is stuck in the dark ages continues …

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POLAND: Archbishop Blames Divorced Parents For Pedophile Priests

“Many of these cases of (sexual) molestation could be avoided given a healthy relationship between parents. We often hear that this inappropriate attitude (pedophilia), or abuse, manifests itself when a child is looking for love. It (the child) clings, it searches. It gets lost itself and then draws another person into this. How many wounds are their in children’s hearts, …

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Take THAT, Lech Walesa

This week former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa declared that gay rights are ridiculous and that LGBT lawmakers should be forced to sit in the back of Parliament.  Here’s a great result of Walesa’s assholery. Poland’s first gay and transgender lawmakers will sit on the front bench in Parliament this week in reaction to hostile remarks …

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Lech Walesa On Gay Rights

“They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking (what they want) from the majority. I don’t agree to this and I will never agree to it. A minority should not impose itself on …

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Poland Rejects Civil Unions

The Polish parliament today narrowly rejected legislation that would grant some relationship rights to same-sex couples. The lower house of parliament rejected three bills that would have legalized civil unions, including narrowly defeating one proposed by a member of the ruling Civic Platform that would have given limited rights to unmarried partners, including ability to inherit property. The motion to …

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Details. (Tipped by JMG reader Vivian)

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POLAND: Catholic Church Launches Magazine About Exorcisms

The Polish Catholic Church has launched the world’s first magazine exclusively devoted to exorcisms. By popular demand. Seriously. “The rise in the number or exorcists from four to more than 120 over the course of 15 years in Poland is telling,” Father Aleksander Posacki, a professor of philosophy, theology and leading demonologist and exorcist told reporters in Warsaw at the …

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Poland Considers Civil Partnerships

Poland’s ruling party has announced its plan to introduce a civil partnerships bill. After several months of discussion, the PO [Platforma Obywatelska] decided last week to put to the vote a draft bill in both chambers of the Polish parliament, the Sejm and Senate. The proposed draft bill of registered civil partnership is similar the current French Pacte civil de …

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Romney Aide In Poland: “Kiss My Ass! This Is Supposed To Be A Holy Site!”

And the Romney World Gaffe Tour rolls on!

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Photo Of The Day – Polish Paulites

Ron Paul’s followers are everywhere, including at Mitt Romney’s stop in Gdansk, Poland. Tomorrow they will protest his appearance in Warsaw. Source.

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Poland Rejects Civil Partnerships

Via press release from a local LGBT rights group: 43 years after the Stonewall riot, Polish deputies decided that same sex couples are citizens of a second class. Yesterday, on 28 June, in the Polish Sejm – the Lower House of the Parliament – deputies rejected the Civil Partnership Bill for same and different sex couples. The Commission of Legislation, …

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POLAND: Neo-Nazis Register Anti-Gay Symbol As Official Party Logo

AFP reports: In a little-noticed decision at the end of October, a court allowed the small National Rebirth of Poland (NOP) party to register two symbols. One was the Celtic cross, used by far-right movements internationally, while the other was a stylized illustration of gay sex with a bar through it. The NOP trumpeted the court ruling on its website …

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Death Metal Politician

Via Political Wire: “Polish parliamentary hopeful Jedrzej Wijas of the Democratic Left Alliance enlisted the help of a local death metal band to make a very unique political ad.”

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