In Poland, it's no longer okay to joke about gays

Dan82 · Mar 13, 2011

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/poland/110225/poland-gay-rights

ember of parliament his job. The shift is a sign of changing mores in what is still arguably one of the European Union's most anti-gay countries.

In an aside to a TV reporter during a parliamentary debate recently about whether to allow civil partnerships, Wegrzyn said: “We can forget about gay men, but I would gladly watch lesbians.”

A media storm erupted, and a befuddled Wegrzyn quickly tried to make amends by issuing an abject apology. “I am very sorry that my joke … was not taken as only a joke. I am sorry if anyone was offended, because it could have been taken as sexist, which really was not my intention,” he said, before going on to say that he was still adamantly opposed to allowing civil unions for gay couples...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/poland/110225/poland-gay-rights
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Zontar · Mar 13, 2011

That's just one of those attitudes that are so gauche and puerile, I can never take anything they say seriously after hearing that.

Emberstone · Mar 13, 2011

hate to say it, but a free society cannot exist without free speech... even for stupid people.

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