LGBT rights are emerging as an issue in Poland's presidential campaign, with incumbent President Andrzej Duda calling it more harmful than communism.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has accused the LGBT rights movement of promoting a viewpoint more harmful than communism, agreeing with another conservative politician who said that “LGBT is not people, it’s an ideology.”
Duda made the comments Saturday in the small southwestern town of Brzeg as he campaigns for re-election in Poland, a predominantly Catholic nation that spent more than four decades under communist rule.are emerging as a key campaign theme in the coronavirus-delayed presidential election as the race grows close between Duda, backed by the nationalist conservative ruling party, and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who has called for tolerance for gays and lesbians.
Duda, 48, told his supporters that his parents’ generation did not struggle to cast off communism only to now accept “an ideology” that he thinks “is even more destructive to the human being.”The president said that during Poland’s communist era, regimes ensured survival by indoctrinating the youngest generation.
“That was Bolshevism. It was the [indoctrination] of children,” he said. “Today, there are also attempts to push an ideology on us and our children, but different. It’s totally new, but it is also neo-Bolshevism.”
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