WORLD NEWS AUGUST 2, 2019 / 7:55 AM / A DAY AGO
Liberals fear unrest as Poland Catholic Church doubles down on anti-gay rhetoric
Marcin Goclowski, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk
5 MIN READ
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polands Catholic Church has doubled down on the anti-gay rhetoric that has become the nationalist ruling partys dominant theme in recent weeks, drawing a rebuke from liberal politicians who compared an archbishops remarks to incitement to genocide.
In a sermon given to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising by Polish resistance fighters against Nazi occupation, the archbishop of Krakow, Marek Jedraszewski, described Poland as under siege from a rainbow plague of gay rights campaigners he compared to Polands former Communist rulers.
Our land is no longer affected by the red plague, which does not mean that there is no new one that wants to control our souls, hearts and minds, he told a mass in the medieval St. Marys Basilica, one of the most important churches for Poles.
Not Marxist, Bolshevik, but born of the same spirit, neo-Marxist. Not red, but rainbow, he was quoted as saying by private TVN24 broadcaster.
Robert Biedron, an openly gay politician from the progressive Wiosna party, denounced the sermon.
-snip-