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cali

(114,904 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 08:13 AM Mar 2013

Lech Walesa: Homophobic bigot

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, the democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has sparked controversy and outrage in Poland by saying homosexuals have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things" in society.

Some commentators are suggesting that Walesa has irreparably harmed his democratic credentials and his legacy. He was the leading figure in Poland's successful democracy struggle against communism.

Walesa said Friday in a television interview that he believes gays have no right to sit on the front benches in parliament and if there at all should sit in the back, "or even behind a wall.

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Lech Walesa: Homophobic bigot (Original Post) cali Mar 2013 OP

Walesa's bigotry is a long etablished thing. It is not only against gay people. Bluenorthwest Mar 2013 #1

Yes. RudynJack Mar 2013 #2

Lech Walesa has a long history of bigotry. Archae Mar 2013 #3

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

1. Walesa's bigotry is a long etablished thing. It is not only against gay people.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 08:51 AM

Mar 2013

By American standards he is a right winger, a tea bagger basically.

RudynJack

(1,044 posts)

2. Yes.

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 09:04 AM

Mar 2013

Walesa is an asshole. Long known, long acknowledged.

What strikes me is he was a hero of the right-wing, and a favorite of the pope - and he spent his life as an advocate of unions.

But he was always a bigot and now he's the perfect representative of bigotry. And like most of his people, he'll be dead soon and the world will be left to those of us who don't hate blindly.

Archae

(46,301 posts)

3. Lech Walesa has a long history of bigotry.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 09:06 AM

Mar 2013

In the decades since the "glory days" of Solidarity, he has slammed Jews, blacks, and now gays.

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