(originally posted on May 4, 2007)
If someone is interested in what religious right wing in different countries is up to should look closer to present polish government. Maybe Poland is not so important on international political scene but there is much spicy news. I’m not sure how much of it is available in English.
Just to mention some more or less recent ideas:
- “Improving” of antiabortion law in a way to delete all exceptions where abortion is allowed.
- Making Jesus as the right king of Poland (sic!)
- Once again “small improvement” of paragraph to prohibit promotion of Satanism and homosexual way of life (understood as complete ban of any public friendly statements on that topics and throwing homosexuals out of areas where they could have contact with kids or teenagers).
Luckily those blatantly stupid and shocking attempts where fruitless (not counting the last one which is still in progress) but what is very disturbing that religious right wing has now more power than ever and no one is really sure if some of mentioned above “ideas” could not become finally horrible reality.
I think there should be at least some English news about recent polish government actions. Below are examples I quickly googled:
http://www.gay.eu/artikel.html?documentid=1798
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2005/poland.htm
http://www.kampania.org.pl/english.php
Now one can consider if so common place right wing domination or growth of its importance in various countries at the same time is just freaky coincidence or it could be influence of conflict with Islamic extremists?
Current notes: Government has luckily changed since the time of the original post. Right wing have always "intriguing" ideas but the situation is more balanced now.
If someone is interested in what religious right wing in different countries is up to should look closer to present polish government. Maybe Poland is not so important on international political scene but there is much spicy news. I’m not sure how much of it is available in English.
Just to mention some more or less recent ideas:
- “Improving” of antiabortion law in a way to delete all exceptions where abortion is allowed.
- Making Jesus as the right king of Poland (sic!)
- Once again “small improvement” of paragraph to prohibit promotion of Satanism and homosexual way of life (understood as complete ban of any public friendly statements on that topics and throwing homosexuals out of areas where they could have contact with kids or teenagers).
Luckily those blatantly stupid and shocking attempts where fruitless (not counting the last one which is still in progress) but what is very disturbing that religious right wing has now more power than ever and no one is really sure if some of mentioned above “ideas” could not become finally horrible reality.
I think there should be at least some English news about recent polish government actions. Below are examples I quickly googled:
http://www.gay.eu/artikel.html?documentid=1798
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2005/poland.htm
http://www.kampania.org.pl/english.php
Now one can consider if so common place right wing domination or growth of its importance in various countries at the same time is just freaky coincidence or it could be influence of conflict with Islamic extremists?
Current notes: Government has luckily changed since the time of the original post. Right wing have always "intriguing" ideas but the situation is more balanced now.
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