Gay pride and religious values

Warsaw's conservative authorities will allow a gay pride parade in the Polish capital later this month [June 10] after rejecting similar requests for the last few years, city officials said on Thursday.

But the ruling conservatives, whose anti-gay comments have raised eyebrows in Western Europe, are also allowing a rival parade by a nationalist youth group to march on the same day in the same part of the city.

The report (via The Beatroot) goes on to say that officials of the ruling Law and Justice party 'have opposed the march because it promoted a homosexual lifestyle that they say runs counter to their traditional, religious values'. See also, in this connection, the item here about a similar march in Romania. It says that 'attendees of the upcoming Warsaw gay pride have been threatened with violence'.