W Hali Wstydu

Z okazji Światowego Dnia Walki z Homofobią organizacja Human Rights Watch, pozarządowa organizacja zajmująca się ochroną praw człowieka, nominowała prezydenta RP Lecha Kaczyńskiego na członka do swojej Hali Wstydu.

Uzasadnienie jest nastepujace:

President Lech Kaczynski of Poland: for denying people respect for their family.

Kaczynski and his allies – including his brother, the former prime minister – have campaigned for years to deny basic rights to Poland’s LGBT people. In March 2008, in a nationally televised speech, Kaczynski railed against ratifying the European Union Reform Treaty, which would adopt the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. He claimed that provisions in the charter prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation would force legal recognition of same-sex relationships. He used film clips of the Canadian marriage ceremony of the US couple Brendan Fay and Thomas Moulton to warn of the “dangers” of legalizing same-sex marriage.