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At last, Polacks get something right
Now why can't we have legislation like this here in America? I'm glad someone over in Gomorrope has finally realized the danger fag recruiters pose to our children, although the penalty (firing as opposed to stoning) seems awfully lenient. It's certainly a step in the right direction!
Sack for teachers who 'promote homosexuality'
From correspondents in Warsaw
March 16, 2007 05:39am
Article from: Reuters
POLISH teachers who "promote homosexuality" will lose their jobs under a draft law expected to be passed within a month, a deputy education minister said overnight, angering human rights groups.
But Miroslaw Orzechowski, a member of the nationalist League of Polish Families party, a partner in the conservative-led coalition government which has often railed against gay rights, said the law was not aimed against gay teachers.
"We will finish a law which will introduce a ban on promoting homosexuality in schools within a month," Mr Orzechowski said.
"A person who promotes this and other deviations will be punished," he said.
Mr Orzechowski said it was not clear yet what penalty such a person would face but suggested it could be a fine or restrictive probation.
He did not explain what exactly "promotion of homosexuality" would include.
The EU parliament has singled out the far-right party, whose leader Roman Giertych is deputy prime minister, as one of the main culprits behind a rise of racism and xenophobia in Poland.
Mr Orzechowski said the regulation would not mean that homosexual teachers would lose their jobs.
"It will by no means harm the rights of homosexuals, hit by this affliction," Mr Orzechowski said.
Poland's leaders, President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, the prime minister, have often been criticised for tolerating the party's anti-gay remarks but also for their own stance on the issue.
Lech Kaczynski, who was previously mayor of Warsaw, has banned gay pride parades in the capital, arguing that it promotes a homosexual lifestyle alien to the traditional, Catholic values espoused by a vast majority of Poles.
But Mr Kaczynski's successor as mayor reluctantly allowed the march last year after Polish courts ruled such bans in other cities were illegal and protests from European Union officials.
The proposed new law has angered rights groups, who say the current administration's stance infringes on human rights respected across the EU.
From correspondents in Warsaw
March 16, 2007 05:39am
Article from: Reuters
POLISH teachers who "promote homosexuality" will lose their jobs under a draft law expected to be passed within a month, a deputy education minister said overnight, angering human rights groups.
But Miroslaw Orzechowski, a member of the nationalist League of Polish Families party, a partner in the conservative-led coalition government which has often railed against gay rights, said the law was not aimed against gay teachers.
"We will finish a law which will introduce a ban on promoting homosexuality in schools within a month," Mr Orzechowski said.
"A person who promotes this and other deviations will be punished," he said.
Mr Orzechowski said it was not clear yet what penalty such a person would face but suggested it could be a fine or restrictive probation.
He did not explain what exactly "promotion of homosexuality" would include.
The EU parliament has singled out the far-right party, whose leader Roman Giertych is deputy prime minister, as one of the main culprits behind a rise of racism and xenophobia in Poland.
Mr Orzechowski said the regulation would not mean that homosexual teachers would lose their jobs.
"It will by no means harm the rights of homosexuals, hit by this affliction," Mr Orzechowski said.
Poland's leaders, President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, the prime minister, have often been criticised for tolerating the party's anti-gay remarks but also for their own stance on the issue.
Lech Kaczynski, who was previously mayor of Warsaw, has banned gay pride parades in the capital, arguing that it promotes a homosexual lifestyle alien to the traditional, Catholic values espoused by a vast majority of Poles.
But Mr Kaczynski's successor as mayor reluctantly allowed the march last year after Polish courts ruled such bans in other cities were illegal and protests from European Union officials.
The proposed new law has angered rights groups, who say the current administration's stance infringes on human rights respected across the EU.
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