Warsaw – Controversy in Poland following the judgment of a Warsaw court has dismissed the lawsuit brought by LGBT activists against one of the largest dailies in the country porcomparar homosexuality to bestiality. The ruling comes just months after another Polish court unleashed a wave of indignaciónal authorize a far-right party to use a symbol homophobic.
In June 2009, just days after the Pride celebrations in Warsaw, the daily Rzeczpospolita published a series of homophobic articles in that compared homosexuality to bestiality. The first of these texts was a bullet, designed by the artist Andrzej Krauze, showing two men being married. Behind them, another man told him a goat, “we have to wait to marry these people, then it’s up to us.” Days later, the same newspaper published a column supposedly satirical columnist Maciej Rybinski and an article by Tomasz P. Terlikowski, which turned to compare homosexuality to bestiality. Rzeczpospolita, often presented as a journal of liberal-conservative line, was a major support to the Government which was ultra-conservative Kaczynski brothers, and has always been fiercely hostile to LGBT rights.
Activists and Michal Pawlik Urszula Minalto, Open Forum of the group, filed a complaint with other LGBT organizations such as Lambda Warsaw and Trans-Fuzja, and also launched a campaign to raise public awareness on the issue. Now a Warsaw court has rejected the complaint, holding that the newspaper did not violate the personal dignity of the applicants. The car believes that comparing homosexuality to bestiality is not infringed any attributes of personality under the applicable laws.
The reactions to the sentence was not long in coming. Leftist politicians and activists have condemned LGBT and have said they will continue to fight against homophobia. The newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has stressed the need to pass a law against homophobia and transphobia. Urszula Pawlik, meanwhile, condemned the ruling saying that the “Polish law there is no possibility of defending the dignity” of the LGBT community. Pawlik referred to the case of the singer Doda, convicted in January for blasphemy for claiming in an interview that the Bible was written by “drunks and smoked.” “Apparently you can not offend the religious sentiment, but if you can offend non-heterosexual people,” he said.
The court arguments have been rejected also by the new Government Plenipotentiary for Equality, Agnieszka Kozlowska-Rajewicz, which has asked the Ethics Commission to order Parliament Marek Suski, a deputy in December also compared the connections between people same-sex and bestiality. “Comparing domestic partnerships with bestiality offends all citizens that live or have lived in such unions,” said Kozlowska-Rajewicz.
Source – Sentidog
