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Gays Are Cowards – Polish MP
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WARSAW, May 11, 2006 – In an extraordinary outburst in the press, a Polish politician has hit out at next month’s Warsaw Equality March (Warsaw Gay Pride) and gays in general. And for added measure has threatened German politicians who have indicated they will be taking part in the Warsaw event. Wojciech Wierzejski, a former leader of All-Polish Youth and now an MP representing the League of Polish Families Party – part of the governing right-wing coalition, has branded gays as “cowards”. This evening, the Polish Social Democrats (SDPL) are understood to have reported Wierzejski to the Ethics Commission of the Polish Polish ParliamentSpeaking to the press on Warsaw Gay Pride, he said: “If the deviants will start demonstrating, they need to be bashed with a thick stick”.
“The Warsaw municipal authorities cannot give their consent to this march,” he insisted. And Wierzejski said he was not afraid for German politicians who are due to take part in the parade. “Once they get a few lashes, they won’t come again. Gays are cowards by definition.” Wierzejski was elected to the European Parliament in 2004, but he resigned his seat last autumn saying that Poland needed him more in domestic politics that in “the deviant European Parliament”. But it is said that other politically non-aligned MEPs in Parliament shunned him when his domestic homophobic speeches were translated into Danish by a lesbian website in Warsaw. At last year’s “Normality Parade”, which add official permission to be staged alongside “Warsaw Pride”, he openly called for a “zero tolerance policy” towards gays. “We can’t let them show their faces in public and go on telling how abnormal they are,” he said.
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Posted: 11 May 2006 at 19:00 (UK time)