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Lech Walesa: activist, electrician, president, Nobel Peace Prize winner... homophobe?
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 03, 2013 04:55pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Mar 03, 2013 04:00pm |
| Description | He is an icon of the democratic Left, who successfully challenged a repressive communist regime to become Poland’s first elected president.
But Nobel Peace Prize-winner Lech Walesa has risked shattering his legacy with an outspoken attack on gay people – saying that as a minority they must take a back seat and “adjust to smaller things.”
Walesa, a former shipyard worker from the socially conservative port town of Gdansk, claimed in a television interview that gay people had no right to a prominent role in politics.
The 69-year-old said they did not deserve to be the front benches in parliament, and should instead be relegated to the back or “behind a wall”.
“They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights ... spoiling things for the others and taking from the majority,” he told the private Polish broadcaster TVN. “I don’t agree to this and I will never agree to it. A minority should not impose itself on the majority.” |
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