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Poland, marched an increasing number of equality, 2019, so also here in Torun

"We have two communities fundamental to consider The Family as a man who said a woman and children," the leader of Poland's ruling law and Justice Party (PiS) at a recent convention.

LGBT+ rights, the largest cultural Problem in Poland choice advance is a battle that Sunday's vote. In The Eyes of Jaroslaw Kaczynski's national conservative party and the Catholic Church , these rights are a threat to the traditional Polish families and values.

Mr Kaczynski may, in order to identify threats to the Polish Society - during the election campaign four years ago, he said middle Eastern migrants, parasites, and protozoa could "bring" to Poland.

This Time around, according to Mr Kaczynski, the danger comes from LGBT people, and from Europe, where the families have two mommies or two daddies can have"," he said.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has Poland emphasized the Catholic heritage in the focus on LGBT+ Issues

. Civil partnerships are between heterosexual or same-sex couples are not legally recognized.

"is Christianity part of our national identity, the [Catholic] Church and The Preacher and the holder is the only widespread system of values in Poland," he said. "Outside of it... we only nihilism have. "

a Senior Catholic Church figures even further, especially the Archbishop of Krakow, Marek Jedraszewski , the stated on numerous occasions that "LGBT-lobby" and "gender ideology" as a new threat to Polish independence after the end of communism in 1989, calling it "totalitarian" and a "big threat to our freedom gone".

Where is Poland, the main political groups on same-sex marriage equality protesters faced the taunts of nationalist demonstrators in Nowy Sacz in southern Poland on Sunday came back to The couple, to fight for change

In The Beautiful , medieval town of Torun, the birthplace of The Astronomer Copernicus, the chief Mariusz Godlejewski the idea rejected, that he was a threat. During More Than ten years living in Ireland, Mariusz his partner of many years married Bartosz, before the couple returned to their home in the past year.

"My husband and I have been together for 14 years. Who we are, two strangers to live together? We are a family," he said. "Come back here, I knew what I was getting into. I knew that I you will lose all the rights with my husband, we in Ireland have been able to, but we wanted to come in and help our friends, to make The Change . "

BBCWe our nation can be better by new ideas, embracing it and adding thinks our culture Mariusz Godlejewski
the boss

Mariusz, it is only a matter of time before things change, but finds the tone of the political debate depressing.

Last month, a professor from Torun, the Copernicus University, Aleksander Nalaskowski, was suspended after he compared homosexuality to "The Plague " and complains that gay men and women demand not only tolerance, but acceptance.

the government supports argued that his suspension was an abuse of the freedom of speech, and he was later reinstated.

dissemination of equality marches in Poland

Mariusz, the organization of the third equality March in Torun, in which More Than a thousand people went through The City was guarded shields to bear, on both sides by Behelmte police officers.

A police water cannon, I saw parked on the street, it was necessary, however, violence broke out, during the equality marches in the cities of Bialystok, where gangs of angry Young Men parade participants attacked, and in Lublin, where counter demonstrators clashed with police and two demonstrators were arrested after they allegedly brought homemade explosive devices.

Poland remains more socially conservative, to LGBT than many countries in Western Europe , but the setting+ theme change.

ReutersPoles and same-sex couples

survey based on a sample of 1000 people

57%support same-sex partnerships

55%Against gay marriage

80%Against the adoption of children by same-sex couples

source: Kantar/Gazeta Wyborcza

There are more and more equality, the marches, 32 this year compared to 13 last year. Most, like The One in Torun, are cheerful, peaceful, and events.

'you need to be aware that they are sinners,'

gathered Under a statue of Copernicus in the centre of The City , a small counter demonstration in front of the equality. March. There are several members of the extreme-right National Radical camp, keep their green and white flags adorned with a falanga sword, in connection with fascism.

There is also a Banner warning about how the "LGBT-lobby", which aims to teach preschoolers How To masturbate, using the slogan "stop pedophilia".

A small counter-March, in Torun, mounted under a statue of Copernicus

There is also a photo that was of an "equality parade" two male demonstrators hold a rainbow flag, from behind, her bare buttocks pixellated. Some people held crosses, and handed a white, plastic rosary is said before the prayers were for The Souls of the equality March participants.

"Everyone has the same rights. For example, you have to marry the same right. I may My Girlfriend marry, she can marry marry their girlfriends, but they want the same sex," organizer and teacher Radoslaw Duch said.

"not We don't want to arrest you, we want to get rid of them. You need to be aware that they are sinners. Me as a Catholic person, I want to show you he added a better way of your life".

If the polls are correct, PiS wins the 13. October: election comfortably.

attitudes in Poland may change, but if Mr Kaczynski's party wins a second term, there seems to be little chance that gay couples have the same rights as their heterosexual neighbors, in the foreseeable future.

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Source of news: bbc.com