Education minister slams participants of gay pride marches – The First News
The Polish education minister has launched a blistering attack on people attending LGBT pride marches saying their “vulgar” behaviour deprives them of the right to be treated equally.
Przemyslaw Czarnek also said people from the extreme left and those carrying LGBT symbols on banners stand in the way of equality.
“These people come out onto the streets, offend Catholics in a vulgar way, shout obscene slogans – and that is supposed to be okay? But when we say this is not normal behaviour, even demoralising, it turns out we are the enemies of a world of progress and equality,” he told the “Sieci” weekly on Monday.
“Either we have equality and everyone can say what they think, or there is no equality,” he added.
Czarnek, who has become well known for his conservative and often controversial views, went on to say that although every person is equal before the law and equal “in the dignity of a person”, rights also depend on human behaviour.
“A human being that behaves in an obscene and vulgar way cannot have the same right to walk around the city as the one who behaves in a normal way and walks with his child,” he said.
“Someone who disturbs the order, spreads depravity, demoralises others, deprives themselves of this right,” he added.
The minister said in his opinion, “education based on values rather than nihilism” would help children stay on what he believes is the correct path.
“Today we have the problem of detaching young people from values and serving lies in the guise of truth, and evil in the guise of good. (…) If we remain silent about evil, it will spread, and evil spreads because good people are passive, Czarnek said.
He also referred to changes in the education law, which in his opinion, are meant to give more security to those parents for whom the value system is important.
“They will have greater confidence that content that they have not accepted will not be taught (…) behind their backs without the consent of the curator of education,” he said.