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Eugene

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:14 AM Aug 2020

Poland LGBT protests: Three charged with hanging rainbow flags off statues

Source: BBC

Poland LGBT protests: Three charged with hanging rainbow flags off statues

5 August 2020

Three people accused of hanging LGBT rainbow flags off statues in Warsaw have been arrested and charged.

Polish police charged them with desecrating monuments and offending religious feelings.

Activists protesting against the anti-LGBT policies of President Andrzej Duda hung the flags off statues of Jesus Christ, the astronomer Copernicus and the Warsaw mermaid.

They also dressed them in pink face masks bearing the anarcho-queer symbol.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki denounced the activists, saying the statues symbolise values that are important to millions of Poles.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53673411


A statue of astronomer Copernicus was decked out with a rainbow flag and an anarchist face mask (Reuters)
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Religion yankee87 Aug 2020 #1

yankee87

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 09:52 AM
Aug 2020

This is what you get when the church has a strangle hold on a country. I am begging all here to get out a vote to make sure this does not happen here.

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