About 100 Polish municipal or local governments have now proclaimed themselves to be "free from LGBTI ideology" and the numbers continue to grow this year. Local authorities in these areas pledge to refrain from acts that encourage promotion and must avoid providing financial assistance to NGOs working to promote aberrant sexual behavior.
The map covering an area greater than the size of Hungary is expanding even after the dictatorial and unelected European Parliament passed a resolution that strongly condemned the concept of LGBT-free zones last December 2019.
These ignorant MEPs described the measures as part of "a broader context of attacks against the LGBTI community in Poland, which include growing hate speech by public and elected officials and public media, as well as attacks and bans on Pride marches and actions such as Rainbow Friday."
Despite not voted by Polish electorates, they have the gall to order Poland to "firmly condemn" LGBT+ discrimination and to revoke resolutions attacking LGBT+ rights, and instructed the European Commission to ensure that EU funds are not "being used for discriminatory purposes".
Fortunately, Poland doesn't need the meddling MEP. The ruling party of Law and Justice (PiS) can easily ignore their call for the greater good of the whole country.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczyński recently secured an election victory with a campaign that was centred on hardline homophobic views. Municipalities started passing the first resolutions against "LGBT propaganda" in March 2019, just as PiS ramped up its anti-LGBT messaging.
In August Kaczyński hit out at Pride parades, telling voters: "This travelling theatre that is showing up in different cities to provoke and then cry… we are the ones who are harmed by this, it must be unmasked and discarded."
The very unpopular gay parades in Poland are routinely attacked by far-right activists who oppose Pride-goers promotion of deviant lifestyle with homophobic chants and explosive projectiles.
