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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lech Walesa Bashes Gays, Tells Them To “Adjust To Smaller Things”

Lech_Walesa_-_2009Former Polish president Lech Walesa has been known around the world as an ardent fighter for human rights and democracy.

Apparently that fight doesnā€™t include the LGBT community.

In a television interview, the Nobel Peace Prize winner opined that gays shouldnā€™t serve in the Polish parliament, but if they must, they should be seated ā€œbehind a wall.ā€

ā€œThey have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking from the majority,ā€ Walesa told TVN. ā€œA minority should not impose itself on the majority.ā€

Jerzy Wenderlich of the Democratic Left Alliance called Walesaā€™s statement ā€œappallingā€: ā€œIt was the statement of a troglodyteā€”Now nobody in their right mind will invite Lech Walesa as a moral authority, knowing what he said.ā€

Poland has a reputation for being one ofĀ  least welcoming European nations when it comes to the LGBT community, but recent elections have seen both a trans woman and an openly gay man join Parliament on the progressive Palikotā€™s Movement ballot.

A group opposing hate speech has filed a complaint with prosecutors accusing Walesa of promoting ā€œpropaganda of hate against a sexual minority.ā€

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