redstar2000
1st April 2006, 06:12
I am sometimes accused of "exaggerating" the threat of Christian Fascism in the U.S.
For my critics, here's a little something about Catholic clerical fascism in Poland.
Originally posted by Direland
WARSAW -- THE SIEGE OF LE MADAME: A Polish Stonewall?
This week saw dramatic new evidence of the ultra-conservative and homophobic atmosphere reigning in Poland since the election last October of a new hard-right government led by the reactionary, gay-baiting President Lech Kaczynski and his equally queer-bashing twin brother Jaroslav, who controls the Polish parliament.
Coming to power in an election in which 77% of the vote went to parties calling themselves right-wing -- from the Kacynzki’s Law and Justice Party, which promised a “moral cleansing” of Poland, to the anti-Semitic, homophobic League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin) and the neo-fascist, xenophobic, and homophobic Self-Defense Party (Samoobrona) -- the Kaczyinski’s government chose as Prime Minister a radical Catholic fundamentalist, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who is militant in his condemnation of homosexuality as “unnatural” behavior which the state must stop from “infecting” others.
As Mayor of Warsaw before becoming Poland’s President, Lech Kacynzki banned Warsaw’s Gay Pride Parade for two years running -- and as President, one of his first acts was to abolish the government human rights office charged with enforcing nondiscrimination against homosexuals.
His brother Jaroslav, who controls parliament with an iron first, has proposed banning gays from teaching in the schools at any level.
And just weeks after the election, in the city of Poznan, on November 19 the local government dominated by the twins’ party sent police to assault and violently break up a March for Equality organized by gays and lesbians, with 68 arrests and many injured.
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/...w_the_sieg.html (http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/03/warsaw_the_sieg.html)
Next time somebody tries handing you a load of crap about "liberation theology", remind them of what Catholics really do when they get the chance! :angry:
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For my critics, here's a little something about Catholic clerical fascism in Poland.
Originally posted by Direland
WARSAW -- THE SIEGE OF LE MADAME: A Polish Stonewall?
This week saw dramatic new evidence of the ultra-conservative and homophobic atmosphere reigning in Poland since the election last October of a new hard-right government led by the reactionary, gay-baiting President Lech Kaczynski and his equally queer-bashing twin brother Jaroslav, who controls the Polish parliament.
Coming to power in an election in which 77% of the vote went to parties calling themselves right-wing -- from the Kacynzki’s Law and Justice Party, which promised a “moral cleansing” of Poland, to the anti-Semitic, homophobic League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin) and the neo-fascist, xenophobic, and homophobic Self-Defense Party (Samoobrona) -- the Kaczyinski’s government chose as Prime Minister a radical Catholic fundamentalist, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who is militant in his condemnation of homosexuality as “unnatural” behavior which the state must stop from “infecting” others.
As Mayor of Warsaw before becoming Poland’s President, Lech Kacynzki banned Warsaw’s Gay Pride Parade for two years running -- and as President, one of his first acts was to abolish the government human rights office charged with enforcing nondiscrimination against homosexuals.
His brother Jaroslav, who controls parliament with an iron first, has proposed banning gays from teaching in the schools at any level.
And just weeks after the election, in the city of Poznan, on November 19 the local government dominated by the twins’ party sent police to assault and violently break up a March for Equality organized by gays and lesbians, with 68 arrests and many injured.
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/...w_the_sieg.html (http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/03/warsaw_the_sieg.html)
Next time somebody tries handing you a load of crap about "liberation theology", remind them of what Catholics really do when they get the chance! :angry:
http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/223.gif