The Parliament of Poland has debated this Thursday a bill that would prohibit demonstrations in favor of the LGTBI collective, in a first reading of the legislation.
The law stipulates that, in the future, a public meeting may not be aimed at “questioning marriage as a relationship between a woman and a man” or ” propagating the extension of marriage to persons of the same sex.”
Demonstrations may also not promote the adoption of children by homosexual couples or a “sexual orientation other than heterosexual.”
This project has been presented by the Life and Family Foundation of the pro-life activist Kaja Godek, after collecting the 14,000 necessary signatures. Before the debate, hundreds of people took to the streets of Warsaw to protest against the bill.
In the early afternoon of this Thursday, some 300 people have gathered in front of Parliament, according to Gazeta Wyborcza, with banners defending that ” love knows no gender.”
Amnesty International has called on legislators not to support the bill, as they should realize “that love is love” and that the proposal is “hateful, discriminatory and restrictive of people’s right to protest. peaceful”. “Such restrictions are unacceptable,” the organization has said.
Many politicians from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have openly campaigned against the LGBTI community, and nearly 100 cities and regions have declared themselves “LGBTI-free” zones.
Most of them are in the east and south of the country, the most Catholic areas of the country, which have been forced to revoke this status in some cases after the European Commission suspended negotiations on regional funding as a consequence.
