Polish archbishop compares LGBTI community to ‘red plague’

‘Rainbow disease’ remarks and communist era comparison add to clerics’ anti-LGBTI rhetoric

Fri, Aug 2, 2019, 14:45

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Leading Polish archbishop Marek Jedraszewski compares Poland's LGBTI community to the “red plague” of the communist era while speaking at a Mass in Krakow to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation in 1944. Video: Reuters

A leading Polish archbishop has compared the country’s LGBTI community to the “red plague” of the communist era.

Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow was speaking during a Mass in St Mary’s Basilica on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation in 1944.

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