May 2008 Cover
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Homophobic twin dynasty continues to offend
Poland has ratified the Lisbon Treaty, which provides new organizational structure for the 27-member European Union, but only after Polish President Lech Kaczynski outraged many with his warnings of the dangers
the pact presented.
In a televised speech three weeks before the ratification vote, Kaczynski's talk was interspersed with images of a pre-World War II map of Germany -- which contained parts of Poland -- and pictures of two men
getting married, as Kaczynski warned that the new treaty would allow for gay marriage, thus "affecting the accepted moral order in Poland."
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he two men shown being married in Canada, Americans Brendan Fay and Thomas Moulton, have challenged the Polish president to meet with them. "We are frustrated to hear that images from such a joyous day are
used to spread intolerance.... We would never have agreed to permit our photographs as part of a homophobic campaign," Mr. Fay wrote the Polish Consul-General, according to The Times (London).
Kaczynski has a track record of anti-gay action. As mayor of Warsaw, he angered gay activists with his ban on gay pride parades in 2004 and 2005, as well as his promotion of the far-right counter demonstration
dubbed "Parade of Normality."
Lech Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, head of the right-wing Law and Justice party and "outed" as a closeted homosexual by Polish media in the fall of 2006, has -- in efforts to ban gay teachers -- claimed that
"the affirmation of homosexuality will lead to the downfall of civilization."
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