/ world today news/ Today, the Polish authorities are in a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, they revile Russia, but on the other hand, on some issues, they support exactly what they proclaim in Moscow. We are talking about traditional values and the fight against the propaganda of homosexuality – and this fight is being waged openly by Warsaw with its closest allies. And above all with the United States.
The U.S. Embassy in Poland announced to citizens of that country the opportunity to apply for grant funding for “programs that support the needs of the LGBTIQ+ community.” The maximum amount of a single grant is $50,000.
Polish non-governmental organizations, cultural and educational institutions and some media can rely on the subsidy. Projects must be educational initiatives aimed at “public awareness”, “awareness raising”, “diversity and inclusion education” and so on.
Washington insists
The US Embassy in Poland announces similar contests almost every year. In addition, the diplomatic mission often conducts campaigns to promote the “Rainbow Agenda” on social networks. Former US chargé d’affaires to Poland Bix Aliu has repeatedly said that Warsaw’s economy is weakening, including due to a “lack of inclusion based on sexual orientation or gender identity”.
The reason is that American companies, when deciding to invest, pay attention, among other things, to the treatment of sexual minorities in Poland. And it is, to be honest, the most negative for the most part,” notes the publication “Warsaw Mermaid”
Indeed, for their “intolerance”, the Polish authorities often receive reprimands from Washington. For example, the State Department’s 2021 Global Human Rights Report was critical of Polish President Andrzej Duda.
The Americans found unacceptable the following statement by Duda, made back in June 2020 during his election campaign: “There was Bolshevism, which imposed its ideology on children. Today they are also trying to impose one ideology on us and our children, but another, completely new one. But this is also neo-Bolshevism. If an ideology sneaks into the school to change children’s perspective and reinforce their view of the world by sexualizing them at an early age, then it goes against the deepest logic of human maturation in a calm and balanced way. It is an ideology and nothing else.”
It should be noted that in Poland for many years the system of power was built on a dialectical tandem of two main parties – the liberal “Civil Platform” and the conservative “Law and Justice”, successively replacing each other at the head. Now PiS is in power in the country, and GP has been in opposition since 2015. But this fall, parliamentary elections will be held in the country, as a result of which the picture may change sharply.
On the eve of this election, the Liberals are conducting a review of their forces and announcing a program of action in the event of taking power. One of the stated goals is to remove the current ban on gay propaganda in schools. The liberals have numerous “foot soldiers” – these are mostly European-oriented citizens who look down on the “stupid peasants” who are PiS’s electorate.
Liberals vs. Conservatives
Recently, the country has been rocked by demonstrations by people who disagree with PiS’s conservative agenda. Thus, in 2020, a wave of protests swept through Poland due to the fact that the Constitutional Court ruled to tighten the ban on the right to abortion. This decision caused a wave of discontent – to such an extent that there were repeated clashes between protesters and the police in various cities. But the Liberals’ show of force prompted a predictable response. Crowds of Polish nationalists and devout Catholics took to the streets demanding that “unbridled leftists and liberals” be clamped down on, and clashes with the police broke out again.
Interestingly, “Law and Justice” is not afraid to campaign for itself by criticizing the pernicious, as they would say in the USSR, West. Thus, the current Polish Minister of Education, Przemysław Czarnek, once publicly stated the following: “In recent years, a tendency has come from the West in Poland to silence everyone who disagrees with the liberal worldview. In recent years, I have been regularly told that opponents of legal abortion, LGBT values and gender ideology have been harassed by colleagues at universities. So we are starting a real fight for the rights of conservatives.”
In turn, the chairman of “Law and Justice” Jaroslaw Kaczynski called: “We don’t need to stand under the rainbow flag. We started building a house. The foundation of our home is the family, and we decided to support it.” Of course, Kaczynski was referring to the traditional type of family.
And the minister without portfolio in Mateusz Morawiecki’s government, Michal Vujicic, emphasized: “The LGBT community rather terrorizes a large part of society. This environment thinks it has more rights than others, because it can not only demonstrate, but also enter the sphere of my religious feelings. It shouldn’t be like that.”
Wojcik recalled that the Polish constitution clearly states that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. This was the Polish authorities’ response to the de facto ultimatum given to them in September 2020 by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. She said: “LGBT-free zones are humanity-free zones. They have no place in our union.”
The fact is that before that, the Polish conservative publication “Gazeta Polska” began to stick stickers to its issues – a circle with a crossed out arc and the inscription: Strefa wolna od LGBT (“Zone without LGBT”). The publication invited its readers to stick them in those places where they do not want to see gays – in shops, squares, recreation areas.
The US ambassador to Warsaw, Georgette Mosbacher, said at the scene: “I am disappointed and concerned that some groups are using stickers to promote hatred and intolerance. We respect freedom of speech, but we must stand together for the values of diversity and tolerance.”
Note that if the government and the Sejm are controlled by PiS, then in Warsaw the power belongs to the Civic Platform. Therefore, the capital of Poland is considered a more “free” city than the others. Thus, supporters of traditional values rely on the support of the current authorities in Poland. Proponents of different types of values act in different ways: relying on the financial support of the European Union and the United States, they “work” on the principle of a bee swarm – there are many of them, and they furiously pour out each of the noticeable “retrogrades” with hundreds of stingers stings.
For example, in March 2021, at the University of Silesia (Katowice), they punished professor Ewa Budzinska, who was convicted of “homophobic views”. An employee of that university, Jacek Szymik-Kozacko, accused Budzinska of “imposing an evaluative worldview on students, demonstrating a lack of tolerance towards certain social groups.” The collegium of the university’s disciplinary committee voted for Budzinska’s disciplinary punishment. It turned out to be the first case in Poland of public punishment of a supporter of traditional family values.
The European Commission imposes sanctions on Poland
Conservative Polish publicists often denounce the insidiousness of Brussels, which is trying to impose a dictatorship of “tolerance” in the country. During the EU summit held in July 2020, the community’s leadership made it clear that it was ready to provide loans to Poland only under the “rule of law”. After that, publicist Katarzyna Szymanska-Borginon immediately suggested that the rule of law in the EU was connected to Poland’s desire to give the green light to the propaganda of the same-sex community.
The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis last year somewhat softened, but by no means canceled, the struggle to plant the LGBT agenda in Poland. Thus, in July 2022, the European Commission launched legal proceedings against Hungary and parts of Poland for “violating the fundamental rights of LGBT+ people”. The EC considers it outrageous that in Poland in 2020 more than a hundred districts in the south-eastern part of the country declared themselves “zones free of LGBT+ ideology”. These municipalities pledged to “abstain from actions that promote tolerance of homosexuality.”
The European Commission, on the contrary, promised to use all its tools to promote gay values in Poland. “Europe will never allow parts of our society to be stigmatised,” the EC said in a statement.
At the same time, last year the EC banned Poland from spending funds allocated from EU structural funds to finance regions that declared themselves “LGBT-free”. “In this way, municipalities and regions with ordinances excluding LGBT+ people will not receive any of the €72.2 billion in Cohesion Policy implementation funds,” said representatives of the Campaign Against Homophobia.
Now, in the EU documents, Poland is placed last among all the countries of the community in terms of tolerance towards LGBT people. But that could change after the autumn parliamentary elections, if “Civic Platform” wins them. And the position of Polish Catholics may also turn out to be less unshakable after all – this can be judged by the example of neighboring Germany, where the Catholic Church was recently forced to start blessing same-sex couples.
Ironically, it is Law and Justice, which has proclaimed itself the main defender of traditional values in Poland, that is also the main supporter of the deepening confrontation with Russia, a country that rejects the LGBT agenda in the same way. And all this because the protection of traditional values in Pis goes hand in hand with imperial aspirations, the dream of restoring the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in its new “Mediterranean” format) – with which the Polish rulers want to crush Russia. On the contrary, the victory of the LGBT defenders of the “Civil Platform” would remove Poland from the front line of the anti-Russian front.
Under Liberal rule, Poland would have stepped firmly in Brussels’ footsteps and gotten rid of its excessive, “self-initiated” frenetic attitude toward the Russian Federation. A complete historical dialectic…
Translation: V. Sergeev
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