It's interesting how LGBT has become the conservative boogeyman. In a way I understand it, because queers tend to be very much radical leftists as a response to how the world treats them. Just...
It's interesting how LGBT has become the conservative boogeyman. In a way I understand it, because queers tend to be very much radical leftists as a response to how the world treats them. Just like capitalism will push back against socialism as it is a threat to its lifestyle, I can see why conservatives might decide to push back against LGBT as a threat to their lifestyle, but it's only a threat because they spend so much time alienating and deriding them. You'd think there would be more of a push for acceptance.
Poland will consider a bill banning LGBT+ Pride parades, after a proposed law was submitted to parliament on Monday with the required number of signatures.
The “Stop LGBT” proposal, which seeks to outlaw public gatherings of the LGBT+ community that “promote” non-heterosexual “sexual orientations”, amassed more than 200,000 signatories, twice the number needed for it to be reviewed by politicians.
During a divisive election campaign earlier this year, Mr Duda said in June that “LGBT ideology” was “more destructive than communist indoctrination”.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski also heightened this anti-LGBT+ rhetoric in August by describing gay pride marches as a “travelling theatre”, adding that they should be “unmasked and discarded”.
Despite these previous homophobic attacks, a Pis spokesperson told Radio Zet on Tuesday that the new proposed law was not a good idea.
Speaking about the proposal, Radosław Fogiel, the party’s deputy spokesperson, said: “I cannot imagine how a law would be formulated that would not break the constitution."
It's interesting how LGBT has become the conservative boogeyman. In a way I understand it, because queers tend to be very much radical leftists as a response to how the world treats them. Just like capitalism will push back against socialism as it is a threat to its lifestyle, I can see why conservatives might decide to push back against LGBT as a threat to their lifestyle, but it's only a threat because they spend so much time alienating and deriding them. You'd think there would be more of a push for acceptance.