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Let me continue.

Because of this rather tense situation President Kaczyński decided to refer to his constitutional right. On 17 March he gave the address to the nation. I suppose most of You haven’t seen it, or maybe even heard of it. So now You have this unique chance. And believe me, You don’t need to understand it. Just listen to it. I will explain it afterwards. Enjoy:

This particular presidential speech is a phenomenon itself. What’s it supposed to be actually? A serious speech of a leader? Well, it’s more like a commercial of a life insurance company to me. Or at the best, a commercial of presidency. A touching musical background (a theme from The Polish Ways TV series from 1976), a few scenes from some major political events, a few snapshots of beautiful Polish coutryside. And in addition, dynamic camera work. A masterpiece indeed! If only Mr President had read the text more carefully before… He has some real problems with his punctuation…

But enough with this sophisticated form, as it can’t dominate over the content. There’s no need to translate the whole speech, I think. Let us focus on the most important things, from my point of view of course:

(…) so called Charter of Fundamental Rights (…)

Not bad. What a brilliant rhetorical trick. But also a display of stupidity. This, Mr President, is an official name of the document. So a wording like this is nothing more than a manifestation of ignorance.

Another regulation in the Charter, by its lack of clear definition of marriage as a relationship between man and woman, could pose a threat to widely accepted moral code in Poland and oblige our country to introduce some institutions contradictory to moral beliefs of the majority.

This reminds me of a nice parallel - a filthy dwarf of reaction (a propaganda term used by Polish communist regime soon after the World War II for the former Home Army soldiers) :]

Well, nothing new at all. But later. Or a little earlier, to be precise. On 16 March Kaczyński was in a small town Łyse, which is famous for its citizens’ Palm Sunday palms. Having heard the mass the President gave a speech which was transmitted live on Polish TV news channel tvn24. A quite interesting abstract:

These decisions of the Treaty which are related to the Catholic religion have to be protected as firmly as possible in secular law. It is possible with a proper content of ratification act. But there are some people who are against including these elements into the text. (…) There are good Poles among people of other beliefs and atheists, too, but most of us are Catholics. We only want to protect ourselves; I say “we”, but I will strive for compromise (…) in my opinion, the ratification act, perhaps supported by a proper resolution as a compromise, should give us as much protection as possible.

And about the Charter of Fundamental Rights:

This document is generally right and just. But there are some paragraphs which could later result in, for example, right to marriages which are not a relationship between a man and a woman. But I’d rather not talk about it in a church.

What a pity… He should have talked about it. Maybe most of present bigots would just drop dead while hearing about two guys in the face of Almighty Merciful God of Love.

But let’s get back to the address. It has resulted in a small, but how ironic, turmoil. Now in the presidential video clip appears a photo of a gay couple being churched. It was claimed to come from one of the West European countries. But how could you have mistaken so deeply, dear presidential copywriters! Two gay guys, Brendan Fay and Tom Moulton, turned out to be citizens of New York, USA. Moreover, soon they heard about using their images in a way which would be rather contradictory to their will. Hence, Brendan decided to intervene and considers taking legal actions.

At first I was surprised, but then really shocked. I have to say that I’m really displeased to hear that photographs from our wedding, a day full of happiness, were used in TV as a part of campaign against homosexual marriages. Marriages like our own.

First he complained at the Polish consulate in New York. Consul Krzysztof Kasprzyk decided to answer and apologized Fay. American newspapers didn’t miss the opportunity to publish his statement:

I would like to thank You for Your conciliatory attitude and empathy which You have showed from the beginning, when this pitiful incident emerged.

New York Times says, upon consul’s letter, that the presidential address had been aimed at

simple-minded, village, Catholic and conservative electorate in eastern Poland.

But there will be no official stand until Kasprzyk’s meeting with gay activists and Fay.

Consul’s behaviour outrages deputy Jacek Kurski from Law and Justice. By the way, Kurski was a director of Kaczyński’s video clip. Deputy said:

It’s really staggering that the consul apologized to a gay. I’m not going to comment on it.

Please, notice the tone of this opinion. As well as a gay he could have said a louse. And this is what he meant.

In the meantime, Brendan Fay said yesterday (on Friday) that he was going to demand apology from Kaczyński. And if he doesn’t get it soon, he’s going to sue the Polish President.

It can’t last any longer. The President cannot openly offend people. We will need some kind of apology, for Mr President’s statement suggested that the relationships between two loving people are disastrous to the Polish society, which is not true.

He’s also going to send letters to President Kaczyński and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. As for Tusk, Fay is going to thank him for his critique of president’s opinions.

In a few words, my Dear Readers, it’s a mess. And a rather big one. I’m looking forward to watching next episodes of Kaczyński versus fags sitcom! :]

sources: gazeta.pl, Gazeta Wyborcza, Daily Telegraph,
tvn24, Dziennik, homiki.pl, gejowo.pl

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