A new survey out this weekend in the pages of the Rzeczpospolita daily states that up to 87 percent of Poles are against the right for homosexual couples to adopt children.
The GfK poll conducted last week among Poles shows that exactly three quarters of respondents do not agree to same sex marriage, with only 14 percent of Poles having no objection to the legal status of such unions.
In response to the figures, Professor Zdzisław Krasnodębski from Bremen University says “it shows that Poland still has a society drawn on traditional values, and is not succumbing to Europe-wide trends.”
With high figures showing the negative attitude of Poles towards legal homosexual unions, Tomasz Szypuła from the Campaign against Homophobia muses that they are the result of the fear of Poles towards different values and ideas. “Many Poles do not even have any gay or lesbian acquaintances, so their opinion on homosexuals is based on what they see in the media,” Mr. Szypuła sighs.
One of the reasons that the results are so negative towards same-sex unions is explained by social psychologist Dr. Norbert Maliszewski from Warsaw University, who believes that the increasing amount of gay-rights marches held in Polish cities has had a reverse effect on Polish society, as reflected by the poll.
Currently same-sex marriages are permitted in Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. Homosexual couples in Sweden, Spain and Great Britain (among others) are given the opportunity to adopt children. (jb)
Source: Rzeczpospolita