Poland Could Start Sending Teachers To Prison For Turning Kids Gay
Poland is currently considering a bill that would lead to the imprisonment of teachers teaching sex education. The bill links homosexuality and pedophilia. Supporters of the bill say sex ed classes "groom and familiarize children with homosexuality."
Although Poland does not currently have a required sex education class in their public school's curriculum, the current law would go much further, imposing a penalty of up to three years in prison for teachers who would provide the class to children.
As ‘Metro Weekly’ reports, supporters of the bill submitted a separate document in Parliament stating that “The organizations and activists most involved in the promotion of sexual ‘education’ in our country are the LGBT lobby.
“Children are sexually awakened and familiarized with homosexuality” in sex ed, which is used “by the LGBT lobby to achieve radical political goals,” like legalizing gay adoption, the document wrote.
“In Western Europe, members of these movements involved in implementing sex education in schools were convicted of pedophilia,” it continued.
Ola Kaczorek, an LGBTQ activist who works with the organization Love Does Not Exclude, said talked about the bill stating that “This would make impossible for us as educators to come into schools and teach kids about humans, about what makes us us, and what’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
“Usually school is not a friendly environment for non-heterosexual kids, but now it will be even harder.”
Draginja Nadazdin, director of Amnesty International in Poland, said the bills were “draconian.”
“Attempting to pass these recklessly retrogressive laws at any time would be shameful, but to rush them through under the cover of the COVID-19 crisis is unconscionable,” Nadazdin said.
The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatović, also commented on the timing of the bill’s debate, saying that “in this extraordinary time of the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians and decision-makers must resist the temptation to push through measures that are incompatible with human rights.”
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