| Polish Gays to Sue Ruling Party
<< In one of the Polish ruling partys latest anti-gay provocations, Waldemar Bonkowski, a leading Parliament member from the northern city of Koscierzyna, hung a banner in his headquarters reading, in part, Today its gays and lesbians whats next, zoophilia
Our Polish pope is looking down from the sky and asking, Whither Goest Thou, Poland? BY DOUG IRELAND Polish gays are fighting back against the notoriously homophobic new government there, announcing plans to sue the ruling Law and Justice Party over two fresh examples of homophobic propaganda. In one incident, Pawel Zyzak, editor in chief of a party bulletin, Right Turn!, wrote that gays are animals and were the emissaries of Satan sent to destroy the Catholic Church. Poland is the most heavily Catholic country in Europe, and the Church was strengthened for more than a decade before the fall of communism by the papacy of John Paul II.
War Eclipses Gay Pride
The Nation -- Jerusalem's World Pride conference, intended to counteract religious incitement against gays and lesbians by conservatives within the city's three main religions, proved one more victim of the war of Lebanon. With a far smaller turnout than the 20,000 expected by Jerusalem Open House, the chief organizer of the August 6-11 event, and almost no Muslim participants, World Pride's second effort at international action appears to have had little impact. .
What are gays trying to prove?
What is the homosexual community trying to prove by renewing its insistance on holding a gay pride march through downtown Jerusalem? Homosexual activists and their apologists claim they are "merely trying to realize their democratic rights," and in theory they are right: Gays have as much right to parade down Jaffa Road and King George Street as Jews have to march down Fifth Avenue. But less than a month ago, the homosexual community demonstrated both its right to hold a gay pride festival in Jerusalem and its ability to do so in a way that caused little or no offense to the large majority of Jerusalemites who strongly opposd the march that was scheduled to cap off the festival but was cancelled due to the Lebanon War.
Boycott of gay march may cost firefighters jobs
Nine firefighters could be sacked for refusing to distribute fire safety leaflets at a gay pride march, their employer said yesterday. The male firefighters will be told the outcome of a disciplinary hearing into accusations that they refused to obey orders to hand out leaflets this week. The officers could be sacked, demoted or receive a disciplinary warning for allegedly failing to carry out duties at a Pride Scotia gay parade in Glasgow in June, and disciplinary proceedings have been backed by the gay rights campaign group Stonewall. .
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