"When Deviants Demonstrate, they Need to be Clubbed"

[Kellanved]

"Homosexuals must be beaten down." Polish skinheads aren't the only ones voicing such sentiments. Members of Poland's governing party LPR are making similar statements. When gays and lesbians demonstrate on Saturday, they could be met with violence.

We couldn't live this freely out there, says Magda, who prefers not to reveal her last name, for fear that her family will find out that she loves another woman. She points out the window at a low-income housing development across the street, only about 200 feet away from the older building where she lives. Warsaw is the capital of Poland's homosexuals. You can live here in relative peace, she says, "as long as you have enough money."

Magda is referring to the ability to buy a three-room condominium in a building not everyone can afford. "I've simply made the experience that people with better educations and higher incomes are more tolerant," says Magda. The doorman downstairs calls Magda and her girlfriend sisters. The neighbors say they're poor, abandoned wives who depend on each other. "That's about as much sympathy as you can expect in Poland," says Magda. "Everyone knows what's going on, but they'd rather not look too closely."

Tomasz Baczkowski agrees, saying that he's happy to be able to afford taking a cab at night. In return for being the organizer of Saturday's Equality Parade and a man who isn't afraid to hold his face up to TV cameras, Baczkowski routinely receives hate mail in the form of at least five text messages a day -- messages like "You queer pig" and "we're watching you." He's worried that the latter type of message might not be an empty threat. A well-known gay man was knifed to death in Warsaw just last month. Baczkowski's name, like that of the victim, is on an Internet hit list put out by "Blood and Honor," a radical, rightwing skinhead gang. Although it boasts a handful of gay bars, Warsaw is still worlds away from treating homosexuality with tolerance.
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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,420589,00.html

[Miss Chybil]

1. Dear God, It's time for the aliens.

The kind from space. You know, the ones who are going to rape our women, suck our blood and steal all of our resources? We need something new to fear and hate, so we can quit eating our own.

Sincerely and Amen,
Miss Chybil

[niyad]

2. I didn't know that fred phelps was polish! how embarrassing.